OIL PAINTING: BEGINNING & INTERMEDIATE

THURSDAYS 4:30-6:30pm

Ages 12+

12 Weeks for $299 (price is prorated for late enrollees)

Located at the Highland Community Center

5378 W 10400 N St, Highland, UT 84003

Come learn the basics of oil painting using a variety of subject matters and approaches. This foundational oil painting class is a good fit for those just beginning, as well as the Intermediate student who wants to pick their own subject matter. There will be instructor demonstrations and paint-a-longs for the beginners, while the intermediate students who have studied oil paints before will be able to bring in their own subject matter and be coached throughout the project. Subject reference will be offered and universal art concepts of oil painting will be discussed each week.

Taught by Shelley Young

Students are responsible for bringing their own supplies and reading our Policies.

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Supply List:

  • 8 - 10 gessoed boards. You can buy masonite or canvas board. Stretched canvas will work, but it is often loose and bouncy. I prefer a more firm surface to paint on. 12 x16 is the recommended size.

  • Pint of gesso

  • Oil painting brushes: Each type of brush is numbered differently, so get a variety of large, medium, and small brushes in both hog bristle and sable style (soft) brushes:

    • Hog bristle brushes:
      Flats: #6, #4, #2
      Filberts: #6, #4, #2

    • Sables/Sabelette brushes:
      Flats: #8, #4, #1
      Rounds: #8 #2
      Filberts: #8, #4, #1

  • A double palette cup to hold solvent and painting medium gel

  • Odorless Turpenoid or Gamsol painting solvent (a quart) -Note: please no turpentine, the smell is too strong in our enclosed classroom

  • Liquin Bottle (2, 4, or 8 oz) OR one tube of *Solventless GEL by Gamblin (preferred)

  • Roll of blue shop towels (available at Costco or Home Depot)

  • Masterson Art Palette 12 x 16” ($20 at Blick in Sugarhouse or online Blick site) AND Palette paper (recommended: Richeson Gray Matters, 12x16 for $14)

  • Palette knife

  • Sketchbook and pencil

  • Apron or old shirt

  • Master’s brush cleaner soap in a small container

  • Small bottle of clove oil to drop on paint piles to keep them wet

  • Paint colors (the fun stuff!)
    Large tube of Titanium White
    Cadmium Yellow
    Yellow Ochre
    Raw Sienna
    Cadmium Red Light
    Alizarin Crimson
    Burnt Sienna
    Ultramarine Blue
    Cerulean Blue
    Viridian or Phthalo Green
    Sap Green
    Burnt Umber
    Ivory Black
    Any other color you would like to bring

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