Paint with oils. Paint from life.

WITH JIM MOODY

Have you always wanted to learn to paint and have a crack at oil paints but not sure how to start? Perhaps you’re already painting and not sure the right way to proceed using oils?

Melbourne painter Jim Moody teaches an introduction to painting designed to help you refine your skills in observation and equip you with the confidence to proceed with your art journey working in oil paint.

The course starts in the studio, setting up, looking and working directly from simple “still life” subject in a very direct and archival correct painting method.

You’ll be painting in a small group with plenty of individual coaching in a comfortable and supportive environment using a simple approach to techniques and materials. You’ll have plenty of time to work on paintings, initially over a number of sessions with one painting taking 2 to 4 weeks. Ongoing, the course might develop for students to paint the figure, portraiture or even landscape outdoors depending on how the group develops.

The course will continue over 8 week terms throughout the year, and explores ways of looking, analysing tonal values, colour mixing, techniques and materials. Jim will also have short tutorials on related subjects such as different ways of starting a painting, different surfaces and “grounds” to paint on and demonstrations on stretching your own canvas.

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Tutored 9 week term
Starting Sunday February 2nd and finishing March 30th, 2025.

Sunday afternoons 2.30 - 5.30pm
$360 per term
Contact Jim Moody 0416 242 327

You can join the course anytime during the term subject to available spaces.

Materials list to be confirmed.
Materials can be purchased through the tutor at prices less than retail.

Jim Moody
BA (Graphic Design) Swinburne
BFA (Sculpture) VCA (incomplete)

Jim Moody is a Melbourne based painter. He mostly works in oil paint. He has exhibited works over a number of years in group shows in Melbourne and Sydney including: Michael Reid Gallery, Satellite Projects Melbourne, Montsalvat Art Centre. He was a finalist in the 2019 Rick Amor Self portrait Prize.

If you are at all unwell do not attend sessions at HAS. If you have tested positive, or feel you may have COVID-19, do not come to the studio until a week after you have recovered.

Under our COVID-safe plan, places are currently limited. Contact class convenors to make sure there is a place for you.