Oil Painting Efficiently

Oil Painting Efficiently

Adult Classes | Available

585 Park Street Naples, FL 34102 United States
Studio 206/207
Intermediate
11/4/2026-12/2/2026
9:00 AM-12:00 PM on Wed
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$225.00
$175.00

Oil Painting Efficiently

Adult Classes | Available

This class brings techniques in palette knife painting, brushwork, color mixing, and impasto thick painting. Angela instructs with a strong classic Fine Art background. These classes will entail a new painting each week, with demonstrations given in composition, sketching (grisaille) and developing our paintings (if not finished, ready to take home and complete). In addition to mixing colors to an advanced level, we will also practice how to apply paint with knives, and how to build up impasto surfaces for effects. Nature images, beach scenes, animals, limited figures, marine, and even the odd still life are brought with input from students on painting subjects. This class provides a fun casual learning atmosphere including relevant art history and compositional lessons and tips.

  • Toned canvases (tinted with gesso colored with acrylic paint for a neutral base) are utilized to help complete the pieces each week.

    We will agree on the subjects for subsequent weeks as a group, attempting to complete each one during a single class. Prior to class, images are circulated via email each week, with details provided in advance of class.


  • Class is intended for oil painting, but intermediate to advanced acrylic painters are welcome

    Oil paints are the best for this class at any level. Acrylics are okay for intermediate to advanced painters.



    I understand anyone being short on colors, brushes, etc. while in FL seasonally. Please do your best to bring the following materials. I often share colors, and other students do too.

    Canvases - stretched or panels (stretched canvas is better, panels save space and travel easily).

    8x10, 9x12, 11x14, 12x16 - All good sizes for most subjects...slower students would be well advised to work small.

    Oil Paint, NOT WATER BASED OIL Winsor & Newton Artists Line, and their Winton Student line. Gamblin, Williamsburg, and other fine makers. Cheap sets by Rowney and Rembrandt, etc. can be highly disappointing.

    Recommended Colors 37-40 ml

    Naples Yellow Light Winsor & Newton (all other brands will be dark like yellow ochre) Yellow Ochre

    Cadmium Yellow (any)

    Cadmium Orange (Winton is fine, saves $)

    Burnt Sienna

    Burnt Umber

    Raw Sienna*

    Raw Umber*

    Alizaarin Crimson

    Quinacridone Magenta

    Cadmium Red

    Ultramarine Blue

    Manganese Blue (and Ultramarine Blue Green Shade (optional)) Sap Green

    Cadmium Green Light Cad Free is fine/looks like lime green Olive Green*

    Williamsburg Brand only make Courbet Green*

    Dioxanine Violet is most intense purple

    Paynes Grey

    Mars Black

    White - Titanium or Cremnitz is best basic- white Large tubes 200 ml are common if you’re painting a lot

    Palette - Paper or Wood recommended, Masterson Palette holder is helpful

    Apron

    Rags - old cotton t-shirts cut up are the best for your paintings

    Container for Solvent Petite Brush Washer at Hobby Lobby $15 is a covered container that your GAMSOL solvent can be carried in

    Please no turpentine- it’s not safe for a classroom setting - GAMSOL or TURPENOID only

    Some people wear gloves, I use a porcelain brush holder will keep your handles and hands clean.

    Gesso - and a few acrylic tubes (blue/brown/black) to tone your canvas.

    Toning Canvas (with Gesso) Toned canvases will help your painting look richer and more complete. Never apply gesso over oil paintings, ever. Gesso tones are applied to new canvases - You MAY Repaint over old oil paintings by covering with fresh oil paint tones to cover.

    Mix gesso with a small amount of water to thin, and add small amount of acrylic paint in increments, blue and brown, or just black to make a grey. Pthalo Blue and Raw Sienna by Artists Loft acrylics from Michaels makes a nice neutral grey. Paint over canvas and smooth by brushing over in each direction several times to reduce streaking and create an even tone. Dries in 1 hr, overnight is ideal for drying.

     

    Any questions? Please contact me directly: angelaandersonpaintings@gmail.com

Angela Anderson

Angela Anderson currently makes paintings in her studios in Maine and Florida. A trained figurative artist with a BFA in Fine Arts, from UNH. Angela is very prolific, working on several series of paintings simultaneously. Narrative paintings of the circus and tents, WW1 pilots and their living spaces, and she is an accomplished portrait painter, The Florida Paintings, of palm trees, beach scenes and figures in the gulf done on site at the beach, are the only group of landscapes to enter her portfolio. Highwire, of the circus paintings is currently featured in NonProfit Quarterly, Winter 2016. Once again returning to an earlier series of Romantic paintings, based on 18th century French paintings, a new body of works will be on view in Maine, Summer 2016. Angela teaches painting to students of all levels, in Maine and Florida. Having had exhibited widely in NYC and Europe, with a solo exhibition in Munich, Germany. Anderson’s works were included in Martin Kippenbergers shows at Museum of Modern Art Paris, Cassel, Germany, Museum Beuyman’s von Beuningen, in Rotterdam Holland, and Metro Pictures Gallery, NY, NY. Her video Love, Boys and Food was shown at the New Museum in New York City, and the Queens Museum, Queens, NY. A resident of NY, NY for 13 years she worked for artist Philip Pearlstein as a model, and framer for BL Frames, while making her own work and exhibiting her work. Angela participates at Naples Art, The Art Center of Bonita Springs, Arts Council of Southwest Florida Artworks available online at: Etsy Shop: AngelaAndersonArts. www.angelaandersonpaintings, com, www.saatchiart.com, www.xanadugallery.com, www.facebook.com/AngelaAndersonPaintings, www.twitter#angelapom