PROGRAM OF SHORT COURSES 2023 - 2025
Objective - Conditions - Hours
January 2024
Trompe l’oeil materials – Ivory, scales, leather, lapis lazuli, malachite in trompe l’oeil
3 days from 3 to 5 January 2024 / 24 hours per course: 480 euros
Trompe-l’oeil marbles level 3 – Sarrancolin, violet breccia, Royal Red
4 days from 8 to 11 January 2024 / 32 hours per course: 680 euros
Mural art scenery
Art of painting large format decorations including: landscape, sky, architecture, materials, fauna, flora…
8 days from 15 to 25 January 2024 / 64 hours per course: 1380 euros
February 2024
Trompe l’oeil woods
Learning how to make trompe l’oeil woods: flamed mahogany, rosewood, burr wood
4 days from 5 to 8 February 2024 / 32 hours per course: 680 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 12 to 15 February 2024 / 32 hours per course: 680 euros
Trompe l’oeil skies (azure and nocturnal)
Ceiling decorations
4 days from 26 to 29 February 2024 / 32 hours per course: 680 euros CLASS IS COMPLETED
March 2024
Painting birds – Rooster, pheasant, parrot
4 days from 4 to 7 March 2024 / 32 hours per course: 680 euros
Trompe l’oeil still life
Techniques of the decorative painter transposed to easel painting.
4 days from 11 to 14 March 2024 / 32 hours per course: 680 euros
Trompe-l’oeil woods 3
Learning how to make trompe l’oeil woods: medium, antique and ceruse oaks..
4 days from 18 to 21 March 2024 / 32 hours per course: 680 euros
September - October 2024
Colors and painting techniques
Fundamental techniques of painting and color theory 4 days from 23 to 26 September 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Chiaroscuro applied to architectural ornaments
Learning to restore the volume of the ornaments through the play of light and shadow 4 days from 30 Sept to 3 October 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Landscaping in the style of the Zuber wallpapers
Technique of flat tints in juxtaposition. Approach of the atmospheric perspective 4 days from 7 to 10 October 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Trompe-l’oeil marbles, level 1 – Portor, Campan, veined white
4 days from 14 to 17 October 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Ornamental gilding
Metallizing ornaments with leaf and trompe l’oeil 4 days from 21 to 24 October 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Trompe-l’oeil woods 1
Learning to make trompe l’oeil woods: maple, walnut and elm burr. 4 days 28 – 31 October / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
November 2024
Perspective
Perspective applied to the muralist. The perspective of shadows and the golden ratio
3 days from 12 to 14 November 2024 / 24 hours per course: 550 euros
Grisaille – Italian technique
Art of painting in trompe l’oeil and in monochromy bas-reliefs or trophies
4 days from 18 to 21 November 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Painting trees
Recurring subjects in the art of painting landscapes: birch, umbrella pine, olive tree, cypress
4 days from 25 to 28 November 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
December 2024
Grotesque and ornamentation
Decorations where fauna and flora harmonize in dreamy and fanciful compositions
4 days from 2 to 5 December 2024 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Trompe-l’oeil marbles, level 2 – Sea green, Sienna yellow, Grand Antique
4 days from 9 to 12 December 2024 / 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 16 to 18 December 2024 / 22 hours per course: 700 euros
Trompe l’oeil sky
Ceiling decorations
1 day from 19 December 2024 /8 hours per course: 200 euros
January 2025
Sea Landscape – Sky, Beach and Ocean
2 days from 6 to 7 January 2024 / 16 hours per course: 400 euros
Mountain Landscape
2 days from 8 to 9 January 2024 / 16 hours per course: 400 euros
Mural art scenery
Art of painting large format decorations including: landscape, sky, architecture, materials, fauna, flora…
8 days from 20 to 23 January/ from 27 to 30 January 2025 64 hours per course: 1400 euros
Februrary 2025
Trompe l’oeil woods Level 2
Learning how to make trompe l’oeil woods: flamed mahogany, rosewood, burr wood
4 days from 3 to 6 February 2025 / 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 10 to 13 February 2025 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Trompe l’oeil still life
Techniques of the decorative painter transposed to easel painting.
4 days from 17 to 20 February 2025 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
March 2025
Trompe-l’oeil marbles level 3 – Sarrancolin, violet breccia, Royal Red
4 days from 3 to 6 March 2025 / 32 hours per course: 700 euros
Trompe-l’oeil woods 3
Learning how to make trompe l’oeil woods: medium, antique and ceruse oaks..
4 days from 10 to 13 March 2025 / 32 hours per course:700 euros
Chinoiserie
Monochromatic scenery. How to paint a camaieu from faded, broken and darkened colors
4 days from 17 to 20 March 2025 / 32 hours per course:700 euros
Painting portrait using the same techniques as the Old Masters.
4 days from 24 to 27 March 2025 / 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
Friday : 8H30 – 12H30 / 13H30 – 15H30 only 2023
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