SUMMER: URBAN GUERRILLA: Reimagining the everyday: Oil Painting
with Matt Carter
On this course you will complete a painting in one session, often referred to as wet-into-wet or more correctly, Alla Prima. We'll begin by going out into the streets around the school studio, looking with a particular eye at urban compositions with their natural abstract qualities in the frame, paying attention to the overlooked and the everyday. We will record these images with a camera [your phone camera is ideal] or by drawing [or both], then return to the studio to begin work. We will be focussing on realism, seen with its inherent abstractness through colour, form and shape.
Then the fun really kicks in! Paying close attention to colour mixing through using a limited palette, we will keep the approach immediate and responsive, as we work wet-into-wet [Alla Prima]. We will begin working from dark to light, aiming to complete a painting in one sitting.
This system is fun to learn and is suitable for painters with limited experience as well as for more experienced practitioners.
Materials list Summer School 2026
Urban Guerrilla: Re-Imagining the Everyday - with Matthew Carter
Camera (or phone camera)
Palette – wood or plastic (Flat to enable mixing)
Palette or painting knife (the type with an elbow rather than flat)
Brushes, preferably synthetic, flats and filberts, including some larger ones at least 2cm wide.
Two smaller A4 boards, canvases, canvas boards, MDF, hardboard or heavy card
or one larger board (A3).
An old shirt or apron
Oil paints: Essential
• White (Titanium, Zinc or any other)
• Burnt Umber
• Raw Umber
• Alizarin Crimson
• Ultramarine Blue
• Prussian Blue
• Cadmium Yellow (or hue)
Oil paints: Optional
• Cobalt Blue (hue)
• Cadmium Red (hue)
• Prussian Blue or Pthalo Blue
Acrylics for underpainting and ground.
• Any colour, perhaps a dark earth colour (Raw Umber) or a brighter one, (Orange, Red)
• Acrylic Gesso (white)
At Browne School of Art we also have a selection of basic materials available for purchase: paper in A1 / A2 sheets: newsprint, cartridge, sugar grey, wet strength, bulldog clips, pencils, charcoal, erasers, white chalk, black ink.
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Standard Booking
Online payment includes payment fee of 2.9% + NZ$0.30. Offline payment details on confirmation page.
Kursticket - für alle alle 2 Daten.
Verfügbar bis Do 8 Jan 09:30
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NZ$235.00 | |
Standard Booking + $10.00 BSA Student Fund - Donation
A $10 donation will go to our BSA Student Fund - helping those who are unwaged or under financial hardship (with a Community Services Card) to attend our courses.
Kursticket - für alle alle 2 Daten.
Verfügbar bis Do 8 Jan 09:30
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NZ$245.00 |
Browne School of Art
194 Great North Road
Grey Lynn
Auckland
1021
