August 2018 – June 2019
Anual Agenda
August 2018
Summer school
13 – 17 August: the Magic of Lime, week course about lime and pigments with fresco, secco and sgraffito.
20 – 24 August: Painting with Wax, week course about the application of beeswax in painting with encaustic, Punic wax and polishing wax
September 2018
Tuesday 4th September: start of Advanced Level course ‘Alla Prima techniques in Tempera Grassa’.
Wednesday 5th September: start of Basic Level course ‘Painting with Pigments’.
Tuesday 11th September: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, working with under colours.
Wednesday 12th September: Painting with Pigments, what a grounds and how do you prepare them.
Tuesday 18th September: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, learning how to master floating paint.
Wednesday 19th September: Painting with Pigments, what are pigments and grinding pigments to pigment paste.
Tuesday 25th September: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, building up layers in different sessions.
Wednesday 26th September: Painting with Pigments, starting to paint with self –made water colour on gesso panels.
October 2018
Tuesday 2nd October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, working on canvas with tempera grassa techniques.
Wednesday 3th October: Painting with Pigments, simple emulsion paints like distemper and casein paint.
Tuesday 9th October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa and gilding, complex poliment gilding in the classical way.
Wednesday 10th October: Painting with Pigments, all you have to know about pigments and binders in paintings
Autumn break
Tuesday 23th October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, working with imprimatura´s
Wednesday 24th October: Painting with Pigments, miniatures on Parchment with glair
Tuesday 30th October: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, Manchester Madonna technique
Wednesday 31st October: Painting with Pigments, silverpoint on gesso as preparation for emulsion paints.
November 2018
Tuesday 6th November: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, Manchester Madonna technique
Wednesday 7th November: Painting with Pigments, the logic of layering colours in emulsion paint
Tuesday 13th November: Alla prima techniques in Tempera Grassa, Manchester Madonna technique
Wednesday 14th November: Painting with Pigments, gesso for canvas, gesso for panels, layering colours.
November 2018
Tuesday 20th November: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, starting points in oil and tempera and preparation of grounds.
Wednesday 21st November: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, starting points and preparations of grounds, gesso for tempera.
Tuesday 27th November: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, imprimatura´s and drawing
Wednesday 28th November: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, optics of tempera and layering colours
December 2018
Tuesday 4th December: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, drawing and first session of white
Wednesday 5th December: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, tratteggio and Cennini tone scales.
Tuesday 11th December: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, second session of different whites
Wednesday 12th December: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, building up with glazing and tratteggio, painting dress and cloth.
Winter break (3 weeks)
January 2019
Tuesday 8th January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, third session in different whites
Wednesday 9th January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, skin in the Cennini way
Tuesday 15th January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques
Wednesday 16th January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, skin in the Botticelli way
Tuesday 22nd January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, final session of whites.
Wednesday 23rd January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, working on skin with a model.
Tuesday 29th January: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, glazing colours
Wednesday 30th January: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, hair and fur
February 2019
Tuesday 5th February: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, isolating tempera in a natural way and glazing.
Wednesday 6th February: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, space and perspective in tempera.
Tuesday 12th February: Cinquecento chiar´oscuro techniques, opaque oil colours on black and white.
Wednesday 13th February: Egg tempera Techniques of the Quattrocento, complex compositions, colour composition in tempera, working with gold leave.
February 2019
Tuesday 19th February: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, introduction in lime and first attempt
Wednesday 20th February: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, introduction and preparation of grounds and paint.
Spring break
March 2019
Tuesday 5th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, working with fresco.
Wednesday 6th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, design and imprimatura.
Tuesday 12th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, layering up in fresco and the fresco timetable.
Wednesday 13th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, oil paint without hazardous solvents, working in linseed oil and walnut oil.
Tuesday 19th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, complex composition in fresco.
Wednesday 20th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, isolating and tone scales in oil paint, doodverf.
Tuesday 26th March: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, secco on fresco and secco as individual technique.
Wednesday 27th March: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, first layers of colours.
April 2019
Tuesday 2nd April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, sgraffito in theory and praxis.
Wednesday 3rd April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, building up colours in cloth and skin.
Tuesday 9th April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, sgraffito in different layers
Wednesday 10th April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, third session of colours.
Tuesday 16th April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, design and enlargement and preparations of a wall.
Wednesday 17th April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, glazing in the Flemish way.
Tuesday 23rd April: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, spacious project on outside walls.
Wednesday 24th April: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, details in tempera and oil.
May break
May 2019
Tuesday 7th May: Fresco, Secco and Sgraffito, spacious project on outside walls.
Wednesday 8th May: The Oil Painting Techniques of the Flemish Primitives, final stage and final glazing.
May 2019
Tuesday 14th May : Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, personal projects in making your individual paint.
Wednesday 15th May: Beeswax paints, encaustic, grounds and tools for painting with hot wax.
Tuesday 21st May: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, combinations and possibilities.
Wednesday 22nd May: Beeswax paints, encaustic, how to make a Fayum portrait.
Tuesday 28th May: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, inventing your own paint.
Wednesday 29th May: Beeswax paints, encaustic and special tools for heating your painting.
June 2019
Tuesday 4th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, the limits of paint and recipes.
Wednesday 5th June: Beeswax paints, Punic wax, recipes and applications.
Tuesday 11th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, binders, agents, transmitters and so on.
Wednesday 12th June: Beeswax paints, Punic wax on raw surfaces.
Tuesday 18th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, last tests.
Wednesday 19th June: Beeswax paints, Punic wax in wall painting.
Friday 21st June: Graduation Exhibition
Saturday 22nd June: Graduation Exhibition
Sunday 23rd June: Graduation Exhibition
Tuesday 25th June: Developing Hybrid Painting Techniques, presentation of individual results.
Wednesday 26th June: Beeswax paints, working with polishing wax as a binder