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Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at £500. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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Develop your skills at this beginner friendly oil painting class in Manchester.
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2.5 hours
1 to 8 guests
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What you'll do
Learn in a Warm, Small Group Setting
My workshops are kept small and friendly so everyone gets plenty of personal guidance. With just a few people in the studio, I can spend time with each of you, answer questions, demonstrate techniques, and help you feel confident as your painting develops.
Learn My Step-by-Step Technique
I’ll guide you through my own oil painting process, showing you how I build an expressive painting from start to finish.
You’ll learn how to begin with simple shapes, mix colours, layer paint, and use brushstrokes to create movement, texture, and feeling.
This is not about copying perfectly, but learning my technique and gaining confidence to paint in your own expressive way.
Finding the Painting Beneath the Surface
We’ll begin by looking at the subject in a simple, approachable way. Instead of worrying about perfection, you’ll learn how to break the image down into shapes, tones, and areas of colour. This helps you build a strong foundation while keeping the painting loose, lively, and expressive.
Playing with Colour and Oil Paint
Oil paint is rich, bold, and full of possibility. I’ll show you how I mix and layer colour, create movement with brushstrokes, and use texture to bring energy into a painting. You’ll learn how to make confident colour choices and enjoy the process of letting the painting grow in your own hands.
Finishing Your Painting in an Inspiring Gallery Studio
Towards the end of the workshop, I’ll show you how to bring your painting together with final details, expressive marks, highlights, and small adjustments.
You’ll learn how to step back, look at your painting as a whole, and decide what it needs next, with gentle guidance and personal feedback.
The workshop takes place in a welcoming art studio within an art gallery, surrounded by creativity and inspiration.
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This class is not available for purchase
What you'll get
Oil paints, canvas, and brushes provided.Step-by-step guidance from artist Lucie Rose Matthews.A selection of reference images to inspire your portrait or figure painting.Friendly support with colour mixing, layering, and expressive brushwork.Your own finished oil painting to take home and display.
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Knowledge required
No previous oil painting experience is needed. This workshop is suitable for beginners, as well as anyone who would like to build confidence with colour, brushwork, and expressive painting.You’ll be guided step by step throughout the session.
What to bring
Any reference images you’d like to use, although a selection will be provided
Your teacher
Lucie is a contemporary artist whose oil paintings explore memory, emotion and inner landscapes through colour, figures and expressive mark-making. She has exhibited in Barcelona, London and Manchester, studied painting in Porto, and holds a First Class Fine Art degree.Her classes offer a calm, supportive space to build confidence with oil paint, experiment creatively, and develop your own visual language - whether you’re a complete beginner or returning to painting.
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