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Painting

Explore our variety of painting short courses, crafted to nurture your artistic expression and technical skills, available both on campus and online through our dedicated short courses platform. 

With over 120 years of experience in the arts, Falmouth offers world-class instruction, expert guidance, and top-tier facilities to support your growth as a painter. Whether you're working with traditional methods or experimenting with modern styles, our painting short courses will provide the inspiration and tools you need to elevate your painting practice 

Painting

Figure sculpture

Figure Sculpture - Spring 2026

£450.00

Description

Create a full reclining figure sculpture in clay on this course with Emily Roberts.

Working with a life model in the studio each day, this is an ideal introductory course for beginners to sculpture and is also suitable for more experienced artists who wish to broaden their anatomical and sculptural knowledge.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/figure-sculpture

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Figure painting in oil

Figure painting in oil from life - Autumn 2026

£595.00

Description

This creative 4-day course with Emily Roberts, suitable for adults (18+) at all levels, will teach you to paint the figure from life working from a model each day.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/figure-painting-oil

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Figure painting in oil

Figure painting in oil from life - Spring 2026

£595.00

Description

This creative 4-day course with Emily Roberts, suitable for adults (18+) at all levels, will teach you to paint the figure from life working from a model each day.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/figure-painting-oil

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Figure sculpture

Figure Sculpture - Summer 2026

£450.00

Description

Create a full reclining figure sculpture in clay on this course with Emily Roberts.

Working with a life model in the studio each day, this is an ideal introductory course for beginners to sculpture and is also suitable for more experienced artists who wish to broaden their anatomical and sculptural knowledge.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/figure-sculpture

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Portrait oil painting

Portrait oil painting from life August 2026

£550.00

Description

This 4-day painting course, suitable for all levels, will develop your skills in and approaches to portrait painting using oils.

Working from a life model, the course will focus on teaching you to firstly draw and then paint a portrait from life using traditional techniques and materials, taking inspiration from painters such as Titian, Van Dyke, Velasquez and Reubens.

You’ll leave with a greater understanding of oil painting techniques, traditional approaches to charcoal portrait drawing, and mixing using a limited colour palette. You will take your final charcoal drawing on paper and a final oil painting on canvas home you.

Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/portrait-oil-painting

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Portrait oil painting

Portrait oil painting from life June 2026

£550.00

Description

This 4-day painting course, suitable for all levels, will develop your skills in and approaches to portrait painting using oils.

Working from a life model, the course will focus on teaching you to firstly draw and then paint a portrait from life using traditional techniques and materials, taking inspiration from painters such as Titian, Van Dyke, Velasquez and Reubens.

You’ll leave with a greater understanding of oil painting techniques, traditional approaches to charcoal portrait drawing, and mixing using a limited colour palette. You will take your final charcoal drawing on paper and a final oil painting on canvas home you.

Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/portrait-oil-painting

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self portrait oils

Self-portrait in oils summer 2026

£550.00

Description

Starting with the foundational knowledge of the classical sight size technique, students will spend 4 days in practical workshops creating drawings and then a final painting in oil of themselves, learning to look at the technicalities of anatomy, proportions, and compositional strategies as well as expression.

As well as gaining a technical understanding of self-portrait and oil painting techniques, students will also study colour theory, learning to mix paint using a limited colour palette. They will take their drawings and final oil painting on canvas home with them.

https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/self-portrait-oil

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Still life

Still Life in Oils August 2026

£395.00

Description

Immerse yourself in this 3 day creative course learning to paint a still life in oils.

Working on a gesso panel, you will first draw your composition onto the panel, as we explore the history of, and symbolic meaning historically imbued within, still-life painting.
After an introduction to oil painting techniques and the history of the limited palette, we will focus on practical and technical skills, gradually building layers of paint learning to create depth of colour, texture and light effect.

Through a series of practical exercises, you’ll experiment with wet into wet painting, scraping back, glazes and impasto as methods for creating a beautifully observed painting from life which you will take home at the end of the course.
Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.




https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/still-life-oil

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Still life

Still Life in Oils June 2026

£395.00

Description

Immerse yourself in this 3 day creative course learning to paint a still life in oils.

Working on a gesso panel, you will first draw your composition onto the panel, as we explore the history of, and symbolic meaning historically imbued within, still-life painting.
After an introduction to oil painting techniques and the history of the limited palette, we will focus on practical and technical skills, gradually building layers of paint learning to create depth of colour, texture and light effect.

Through a series of practical exercises, you’ll experiment with wet into wet painting, scraping back, glazes and impasto as methods for creating a beautifully observed painting from life which you will take home at the end of the course.
Suitable for all creative people at all levels and based in a lovely art studio on our Falmouth campus.




https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-design-short-courses/still-life-oil

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