Eleanor White: The Complicity of Light, Oil on Canvas; 18 & 19 April 2026
2 days with lunch
10 - 4pm
The Complicity of Light; oil on canvas with Eleanor White
Over this two day course you will explore tone though the medium of oil paint using the reduction method to create both quick and sustained images.
The course will be based outside if weather permits taking inspiration from around the studio and garden, the juxtaposition of buildings in the natural landscape as well as the rich abundance of nature will give the subject matter.
Using direct observation the tonal response in oil will allow each student to embrace composition and structure, surface texture and the rhythms of nature.
Sketches will be done on prepared paper and each student should bring a medium canvas or canvas board no bigger than 30x30inches.
The course will suit people with experience of drawing out in the landscape and are willing to work intuitively.
LIST OF MATERIALS
Stretched canvas or canvas board no larger than 30x30inchs. It can be smaller. Bring a size that you feel comfortable to take outside and that you will work on for most of the weekend.
Burnt umber and Ultramarine blue oil paint
Selection of brushes
Low odour solvent for oils –Zest it or other brand.
Two jam jars with tight fitting lids
Lots of soft rags. Rags are preferable to kitchen roll.
Cotton buds
Protective gloves
Stool or mat to sit on outside
Acrylic paint – a small selection of basic colours and white.
All weather old clothing
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Eleanor is a familiar and popular tutor at Old Sleningford as well as running her own art school at Ullapool. She also teaches throughout the UK and abroad and is a visiting tutor at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh. Eleanor K White lives and works in Ullapool, Ross-shire, Scotland.
In 1994 Eleanor established the independent art school, Bridge House Art in Ullapool which she continues to be the director and principal tutor on the winter portfolio course and summer school programme.
When not teaching at Ullapool, she travels to deliver art workshops to small groups and art societies both in the UK and abroad. She is a guest tutor for Arbuthnott Holidays in Spain and for the last 30 years has been the guest tutor on Rufus Reade Painting Tours.
Her year is split between teaching and painting, both are deeply enjoyable and challenging practices and one feeds seamlessly into the other.
2 days with lunch
10 - 4pm
The Complicity of Light; oil on canvas with Eleanor White
Over this two day course you will explore tone though the medium of oil paint using the reduction method to create both quick and sustained images.
The course will be based outside if weather permits taking inspiration from around the studio and garden, the juxtaposition of buildings in the natural landscape as well as the rich abundance of nature will give the subject matter.
Using direct observation the tonal response in oil will allow each student to embrace composition and structure, surface texture and the rhythms of nature.
Sketches will be done on prepared paper and each student should bring a medium canvas or canvas board no bigger than 30x30inches.
The course will suit people with experience of drawing out in the landscape and are willing to work intuitively.
LIST OF MATERIALS
Stretched canvas or canvas board no larger than 30x30inchs. It can be smaller. Bring a size that you feel comfortable to take outside and that you will work on for most of the weekend.
Burnt umber and Ultramarine blue oil paint
Selection of brushes
Low odour solvent for oils –Zest it or other brand.
Two jam jars with tight fitting lids
Lots of soft rags. Rags are preferable to kitchen roll.
Cotton buds
Protective gloves
Stool or mat to sit on outside
Acrylic paint – a small selection of basic colours and white.
All weather old clothing
—-
Eleanor is a familiar and popular tutor at Old Sleningford as well as running her own art school at Ullapool. She also teaches throughout the UK and abroad and is a visiting tutor at Leith School of Art in Edinburgh. Eleanor K White lives and works in Ullapool, Ross-shire, Scotland.
In 1994 Eleanor established the independent art school, Bridge House Art in Ullapool which she continues to be the director and principal tutor on the winter portfolio course and summer school programme.
When not teaching at Ullapool, she travels to deliver art workshops to small groups and art societies both in the UK and abroad. She is a guest tutor for Arbuthnott Holidays in Spain and for the last 30 years has been the guest tutor on Rufus Reade Painting Tours.
Her year is split between teaching and painting, both are deeply enjoyable and challenging practices and one feeds seamlessly into the other.