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PROGRAM OF SHORT COURSES 2025 - 2026

All short courses will also be acquired in a  full vocational training program.
If you would like to register for a full vocational program please click here!

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September – October 2025

Colors and painting techniques

4 days from 22 to 25 September 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Le clair-obscur shadows and lights applied to architectural ornaments

4 days from  29 September to 2 October 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

October 2025

Zuber – landscape French 19 th century effect

Technique of flat tints in juxtaposition. Approach of the atmospheric perspective
4 days from  6 to 9 October 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Trompe-l’oeil marbles, level 1

Portor, Blanc veiné de Carrare, Campan
4 days from 13 to 16 October 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Gilded ornament 

Metallizing ornaments with gold leaf and trompe l’oeil 
4 days from 20 to 23 October 2025 / 32 hours per class : 700 euros

 Trompe-l’oeil woods 1

Learning to make trompe l’oeil woods: maple, walnut and elm burr

4 days from 27 to 30 October 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

November 2025

Perspective 

Perspective applied to the muralist. The perspective of shadows and the golden ratio
4 days from 10 to 13 November 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Grisaille -Italian technique

Art of painting in trompe l’oeil and in monochromy bas-reliefs or trophies
4 days from 1 to 20 November  2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Painting birds

2 days from 24 to 25 November 2025 / 16 hours per course : 350 euros

Painting trees 

Cypress and olive tree
2 days from 26 to 27 November 2025 / 16 hours per course : 350 euros

December 2025

Grotesque and ornementation

Decorations where fauna and flora harmonize in dreamy and fanciful compositions
4 days from 1 to 4 December 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Trompe-l’oeil marbles, level 2 

Jaune de Sienne, Grand Antique, Sea Green.
4 days from 8 to 11 December 2025 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Computer assisted creation

Learning how to rework images and prepare your own wallpaper projects with the “Affinity” software
3 days  15, 16 and 17 December 2025 / 24 hours per course : 550 euros

Trompe l’oeil sky (azuréen)

Ceiling painting techniques
1 day 18 December 2025 / 8 hours per course : 200 euros

Program of short courses 2026

January 2026

Sea landscape

Sky, beach and the ocean  
2 days  from  5 to 6 January 2026 / 16 hours  per course : 350 euros

Azulejos en trompe l’œil

Faïence, patine et craquelures pour un effet hyper réaliste
2 days from 7 to 8 January 2025 / 16 hours per course  : 350 euros

Mural art scenery

Art of painting large format decorations including: landscape, sky, architecture, materials, fauna, flora…
8 days from 19 to 29 January  2026 / 64 hours per course : 1400 euros

February 2026

Trompe l’oeil woods Level 2

Learning how to make trompe l’oeil wood: mahogany and rosewood 
4 days from 2 to 5 February 2026 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Trompe l’oeil draperies: plain, striped and damask

Learning how to restore the silky, matte and shiny aspect of draperies and how to give them volume for a very realistic look
4 days from 9 to 12 February 2026 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Trompe l’oeil still life

Techniques of the decorative painter transposed to easel painting 
4 days from 16 to 19 February 2026 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

March 2026

Trompe-l’oeil marbles level 3 

 Sarrancolin, Violet Breccia, Royal Red
4 days from 2 to 5 March 2026 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Chinoiseries

Monochromatic scenery. How to paint a camaieu from faded, broken and darkened colors
4 days from 9 to 12 March 2026 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Trompe-l’oeil woods level 3

Learning how to make trompe l’oeil woods: medium, antique and ceruse oaks 
4 days from 16 to 19 March 2026 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

Painting portrait using the same techniques as the Old Masters.

4 days from 23 to 26 March 2026 / 32 hours per course : 700 euros

GENERAL GOALS

Acquiring the essential know-how for creating decorative paintings and trompe l’oeil destined for use in heritage decoration, furniture and scenography.
The techniques taught, as indicated module by module above, encompass all the applications of the profession which the decorative painter will have to satisfy.

PEDAGOGICAL METHODS

Explanation and presentation of the panels to be made “Step by step” explanation and demonstration of the definitive panels, with notes and photographs taken
by the students. Realization by the student step by step with follow-up and comments from the teacher. Finishing and protection of the decoration.

CONDITIONS

SINCE THE NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS IS LIMITED, THEY MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN 15 DAYS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE.
STUDENTS WISHING TO APPLY FOR FINANCING WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CONTINUING TRAINING MUST ANTICIPATE THE DEADLINE FOR THE DECISION OF THEIR APPROVED COLLECTING BODY (OPCA) OR THEIR COMPANY.

Every training course is led by Jean Sablé, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, Expert métiers d’art near the Court of Appeal of Versailles.
Enrollments are reserved by mailing a deposit check of 25% of the amount of the course to the order of the Sablé School, and to the address below, 15 days at the latest before the beginning of the course.
Deposits are not cashed before the actual beginning of the course and are returned in case of cancellation.
The remaining amount must be paid upon entry into the course.
You will be sent a list of the material needed for the course by email as soon as the deposit is received.
Once the trainee has received this list, he/she will have the possibility to either purchase the material by himself/herself or to buy it from the school.
In this case it will be necessary to inform us in order to ensure the supply.
The canvases and/or other supports as well as the colors, mediums and varnishes are included in the price of the course.

HOURS

Monday -Thursday : 8H30 – 12H30 / 13H30 – 17H30

Ecole d’Art Jean Sablé

1 rue Alexandre Bontemps 78000 VERSAILLES, France
01 39 20 99 76 / 06 08 98 38 65
jean@ecolejeansable.com