One Week Holiday Course | Painting in the Park

A one-week outdoor painting course in London's parks, exploring technique, confidence, and inspiration through direct observation and the work of great landscape painters.
  • Drawing Open Space
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One Week Holiday Course | Painting in the Park Image

Course details

Dates

21 July – 25 July 2025

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£445.00

Location

Parks & urban spaces

Tutors

Fraser Scarfe

Danny Markey

Overview

Spend a week painting outdoors in some of London’s most beautiful green spaces-from Hyde Park to Regent’s Park and beyond. This course is designed to build your confidence and practical skills for working en plein air, whatever the weather. 

Taking inspiration from master landscape painters such as Seurat, Corot, Constable, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Ivon Hitchens and Adrian Berg, we’ll explore how direct observation and immediate response can shape your painting practice. 

Open to all levels and mediums, the course offers a mix of guidance, experimentation, and immersion in nature, equipping you to paint wherever inspiration strikes. Be ready to work outside, rain or shine! 

Who is it for

Artists, creatives and image-makers of all levels welcome, including beginners. 

What’s provided

For studio courses, easels, drawing boards, charcoal, newsprint and masking tape are provided in the studios for free. For our painting courses there is an additional fee at time of booking for Co-co Bello Solvent which includes a 200ml pot of solvent to use in our studios. Please note, no other solvents are allowed in the studios for H&S reasons. If you would like to use our stock of paper within the studios, we charge a paper fee that can be paid by card on the day, at £2.50 per day.

What to bring

A detailed materials list will be sent prior to the start of the course.

You are required to bring your own  materials for painting courses; our suggested list includes: 

  • Oil paint or acrylic paint basic palette:
  • Titanium White
  • Cadmium Lemon
  • Cadmium Yellow Deep
  • Cadmium Red
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • French Ultramarine
  • Cobalt or Cerulean Blue
  • Phthalo Blue

A limited palette, i.e. the suggested most limited range of pigments

  • Titanium White
  • Lamp Black or Ivory Black
  • Yellow Ochre
  • Phthalo Blue and/or Venetian Red

Brushes and palettes

  • Pure sable brushes (long-handled for oil painting)
  • Hog hair: round & filbert brushes
  • Palette and palette knives

Canvas or boards

  • Prepared and stretched canvas or board (ready to paint with), maximum size in either height x width dimensions is 36" inches (90cm).
  • Alternatively, oil painting or primed paper.
Concessions

Unfortunately, we do not offer concessions on our Summer School courses.

All of our course rates are subsidised and we also offer a comprehensive concessions scheme on our term-time courses.