CLASSES

Monday afternoons from 14h to 16h, possibility to paint till 17h, at the Atelier Delort in Bourron-Marlotte

Note: no class on 24 November 2025

No classes during French school vacations and national holidays

Subjects

Still-life, life model, portrait, landscape (weather permitting), 

Mediums 

All techniques possible (oil paint, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, graphite, ink)

Cost 

€25 per class

Where

160 rue Général Le Clerc, 77780 Bourron-Marlotte

Materials

It is up to you. I recommend the following:

For drawing:

Sketchbook, 9 x 12 inches (A4) or so...
Pencils, H, HB, 2B, 4B
Paper
Arches or Fabriano or other Hot press watercolor paper, 90 or 140 lb., or Ingres laid paper 
Drawing boards

 two 3mm thick pieces of mdf cut slightly larger that your paper (paper 28 x 38 cm = boards 31 x 41 cm), doubles as portfolio

Drawing clips, style Bulldog

Vine charcoal, thin

peau de chamois

two erasers, one gray, one white

For oil painting:

Properly prepared canvas, panel, or paper to paint on. I prefer fine wove linen canvases prepared with a cream colored oil priming. Approximate size 20 x 30 cm to 30 x 40 cm
colors - I prefer Rembrandt. They are fluid enough to work without adding additional linseed oil.
titanium white
cadmium yellow light
yellow ochre 
permanent red medium

red ochre or burnt sienna

ivory black

ultramarine blue (light or dark)
Artist quality odorless mineral spirits bought from an art supply store
palette - New Wave Highlander or Capelletto are good. Wet palette box or tupperware - to store your palette in and keep wet paint fresh for the next day. I use the Masterson Stay Wet Palette Box with the Capelletto 30 x 40 cm rectangular palette.
Metal cup for mineral spirits
Brushes - Synthetic filberts or rounds 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8
rags
box to put your stuff in...

When you are finished painting, pour your dirty mineral spirits into a glass jar. Let them sit over night or longer. Paint inside will settle to bottom of jar. You can pour off the clean mineral spirits into another jar and re-use them. DO NOT POUR MINERAL SPIRITS DOWN THE DRAIN OR THROW IT OUTSIDE.

Dirty rags with paint on them go into a metal trash can with a lid.

Both dirty paint rags and mineral spirits need to be eventually disposed of at a proper facility.