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Oil Painting Two- Day Master Class with Tam Cao

Date:

21 and 22 November

Time:

10am - 1pm

Cost: $

240

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Proposed course :Still life Oil painting

Medium: Oil

Student level:intermediate/advanced

Course length: 2 days

Preferred days:

Course description: Learn to paint still life with a limited palette. Starting with primary shapes

i.e. cube, cone, sphere etc. and further into more complicated shapes. As we arrange the

objects in space you'll discover that composition of your still-life is a starting point to picture

making.

Expected course outcomes:

● understanding of primary shapes

● composition

● limited palette

● grisaille painting

● how to prime a canvas

Materials:

● AS or Langridge oil paint titanium white, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, raw

umber, Ivory black, optional colours: cadmium orange, alizarin crimson

● Range of flat and round brush

● Acrylic primed linen (or 50/50 blend polycotton canvas) roughly 30 x 40 cm working

area

● Palette or perspex for mixing

● Medium sized palette knife

● Lots of rags for clean up

● Linseed oil and odourless solvent

Tam Cao

Thanh Tam Cao Art Education 2003 – 2004 - East Sydney Art Academy 2009-2010 John Olsen Scholarship, Julian Ashtons Art School 2010 Diploma in Drawing and Painting, Julian Ashtons Art school 2017 - Present. Tutor at Julian Ashtons Art School 2016 Florence Academy of Art, 6 weeks intensive art course Tam has been a finalist in over 13 Art Shows in 10 years. He was a recipient of the William Fletcher Foundation grants in 2026 and 2025.