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.

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One Week Holiday Course | Painting in the Park Image

Course details

Dates

13 Jul – 17 Jul 2026

Times

10:00 – 17:00

Duration

5 sessions

Fees

£445.00

Location

Parks & urban spaces

Tutors

Danny Markey

Overview

This one week painting course will explore the practice of drawing and painting in London’s green spaces. Painting outdoors presents many problems; the aim of this course is to equip students with the confidence and practical knowledge to go out and work in any environment that inspires them. We will consider the work of painters such as Seurat, Corot, Constable, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Ivon Hitchens and Adrian Berg whose work can be seen in various London museums.

Students will work outside in one of the many parks in London such as Paddington Street Gardens, Regent’s Park or Hyde Park, and will be encouraged to respond to these places by making direct paintings on the spot. No experience is necessary, and students are not limited to a particular medium. Dealing with unpredictable weather is one of the challenges of painting outside, the students should be prepared 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.

Tutors

Danny Markey

Tutor