*New* Introduction to Oil Painting with Cold Wax Medium

Instructor Victoria Brzustowicz
Mondays 6:00-8:00 $110 
8/3/26 -8/10/26
 Introduction to Oil Painting with Cold Wax Medium

Discover the possibilities of oil painting with cold wax medium in this two-session workshop. Through demonstrations and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn the fundamentals of using cold wax medium with oil paint to create rich textures, expressive marks, and luminous surfaces. We’ll explore layering, mark-making, and the use of a variety of tools to build your paintings. This workshop is perfect for beginners curious about cold wax as well as painters looking to expand their creative process. Basic oil painting experience is helpful but not required.

  • Materials List: Introduction to Oil Painting & Cold Wax Medium

    Paints

    Oil paints in at least basic colors

    • Titanium White
    • Ultramarine Blue
    • Napthol Red or Cadmium Red Light (or Pyrrole Red)
    • Hansa Yellow Light or Cadmium Yellow Light

    Optional:

    • Yellow Ochre
    • Burnt Sienna
     (Note: You can use water miscible oils but solvents will be needed for cleanup once the wax medium is added.)

    Medium

    • Cold Wax Medium   Gamblin or Dorland

    Painting Surfaces

    Bring 3–5 rigid panels, 8″ × 10″, 9″ × 12″, or 11″ × 14″

    • Cradled wood panels, gessoed hardboard, or ACM panels are all suitable.
    • Oil painting paper
    • Stretched canvas is not recommended for cold wax painting.

    Tools

    • Palette knives for mixing paint and for mark-making
    • Silicone wedges or catalyst tools (optional but recommended)
    • Plastic gift cards, old credit cards, or bowl scrapers
    • Brayer (2″ or 4″ soft rubber brayer)
    • One or two inexpensive natural-bristle brushes (1″–2″)
    • Disposable palette paper or palette pad or a glass palette (approximately 9″ × 12″ or larger)

    Drawing & Mark-Making Tools

    Bring a selection of tools for creating texture, such as:

    • Graphite pencil
    • Bamboo skewer
    • Clay or pottery tools
    • Wire or rubber texture tools
    • Bubble wrap, mesh, lace, or other found texture materials (optional)

    Mediums

    • Odorless mineral spirit (such as Gamsol)
    • Vegetable oil or other brush-cleaning oil
    • Small containers for cleaning oil and Gamsol
    • Paper towels or cotton rags
    • Nitrile gloves (optional)

    Additional Supplies

    • Apron or painting shirt
    • Notebook/sketchbook/journal and pencil for notes
    • Reference photos or sketches (optional)

*New* Youth Multi-Media 9+

Youth Multi-Media Age 9+

Next Session: 10/3/26 – 11/21/26 

Saturdays 12:00-1:30 

8 weeks all supplies included Cost: $179

In this class, children will explore new ways to mesh mediums to produce multimedia pieces. Acrylic, watercolor and printmaking will be combined with expressive mark making, drawing and collaging to produce one of a kind experience and process driven artwork.

Daytime: The Wonders of Watercolor

Tues 1:00-3:00 9/22/26 – 10/20/26
–5 weeks $139

Anne Jurgens, award winning artist and certified instructor, will lead you through the wonders of watercolor. This class is intended for beginning and intermediate students with emphasis on expressing ourselves with paint. Beginning students will learn basic watercolor techniques including how to apply flat washes, graded washes, and glazes, wet in wet and dry brushing techniques. We will learn about composition, values, line, and color as elements in a painting. For intermediate students who wish to choose their own subjects, instruction will be individualized.- You can read the artist’s bio and see more of her work in the Gallery section.

  • Paper: Arches 11×14 100% rag, 140 Cold Press. and/ or Strathmore Series 500 mixed media
  • Brushes: Sable is best. Synthetic is okay Rounds #1, #5, #8 Flats: 1/2 inch, 1 inch, 2 inch, Rigger
  • Water Container – One for clear, one to clean brushes can be as simple as a couple of
    cottage cheese containers.
  • Paper towels – to soak up excess water
  • Pencil – #2
  • Pallet : Make it large enough to hold 16 colors and have space to mix paints
  • Paints: Here are the basics. You can buy more, but we can build almost any color
    from these..
  • These consist of both cool and warm in the primary colors enabling us to
    be able to make the colors we need. Buy your colors In tubes or in cubes. Any brand,
    except where noted you usually get better results with Professional grade, you can use Cotman when brand isn’t noted.
  • Yellows: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna*
    Reds: Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarine Crimson, Permanent Rose
    Blues: Cobalt Blue, Winsor Newton Ultramarine Blue
    Others: Winsor Newton Sap Green, Winsor Newton Burnt Sienna
  • Waterproof board – To tape your painting to
  • Artist tape to tape down your painting
  • Knife for scoring . I prefer an exacto knife, and a small hair dryer

 

 

Drawing 101

Mondays: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Teen to Adult
Cost: $129 for 7 Weeks

Next Session: Sept 15th- Oct 27th

Can’t draw but want to? Can draw but want to get better? In this class you will use pencil, charcoal, and pastel to learn basic forms, one and two point perspective, negative space, tonal value and proportion. Use these fundamentals to draw anything. Drawing accurately is the basis for all other fine art mediums. You need to be able to accurately sketch out your canvas or paper before going on the next step.

  • Materials List:
  • Drawing pad w/perforated top 9 x 12 or 11 X 14
  • hake brush
  • 4 graphite drawing pencils, hard, med & soft
  • metal sharpener
  • pink pearl eraser
  • kneaded eraser
  • blending tortillions
  • Vine Charcoal
  • Kit portfolio bag at cost with purchase of kit
  • Kits are available for purchase

Daytime Oil Painting

Instructor Victoria Brzustowicz
6 week Class $179
Mondays 11:00-1:00
Next Session: 9/14/26 -10/19/26

Course Description:

In this class we’ll explore materials, fundamentals, and best practices of oil painting, with an emphasis on direct or “alla prima” techniques. Color mixing and creating a range of colors from a limited palette will be taught. For students with previous experience in color mixing, a more complex palette will be used. Paint from your own sketches, photos, or studio still life. We’ll have demos in each class that will cover various topics such as various ways to start an oil painting, oiling out, stretching a canvas, preparing a panel, glazing, and varnishing.

  • Supply List:
  • If you already have  oil paints, please bring them to class and we will work with your selection. If you don’t have supplies, here is the  minimum to get started!
  • Paints
    Napthol Red (or equivalent) –
    Ultramarine Blue –
    Hansa Yellow Light (or equivalent)
    Titanium White
  • Surfaces
    Canvas panel or gessoed panels in a variety of sizes, preferably 11 x 14 and smaller. Since we will be working alla prima, aim for smaller sizes if possible 8x 10 is wonderful.
  • Brushes: a least one of each, not  too small (4-6). We will discuss the individual marks that each type of brush makes, and you can add to your collection as you go.
    Filbert
    Flat
    Round
  • Palette Knife
  • Gray Matters Disposable Palette Pad 12 x 16
  • Masterson Sealed Palette
  • Gamsol