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Beginner Oil Painting


Classes for Adults / Art & Music -
Fall 2025-Adult

Learn the fundamentals of oil painting, including mastery of tools and materials and the basic tenets of art. Work from a still life using a limited palette, learning techniques from the masters! This class has a supply list to purchase before class.


Supplies: 

  • Oil Paint 37ml tubes, any brand (Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow Light, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue, Titanium White, Burnt Sienna)
  • Blick Masterstroke Interlocking Bristle Brushes (Bright, Long Handle, Sizes 2, 4, 8, 10), (Filbert, Long Handle, Sizes 4, 12), (Round, Long Handle, Sizes 1, 2, 4)
  • Studio or Value grade canvases & panels Panels: Economy Bulk set of 9”x12” Canvas: 1- 16”x20” 
  • 1- Disposable Palette pad, 16”x20” 
  • 1-118ml bottle Turpenoid (not turpentine), or equivalent odorless solvent
  • 1 roll Paper towels or old cut up t-shirt 
  • 1 set plastic painting knives/palette knife 
  • 1-75ml bottle Winsor & Newton Liquin 
  • 1-8oz bottle Linseed oil 
  • 1- Silicoil Brush Cleaning Tank
  • 1-8oz Bristle Magic Brush Cleaner or equivalent 
  • 1 Bamboo Brush holder 
  • 1 Palette cup, small, double

Heather Friedli

Instructor

Heather Friedli is Saint Paul’s premiere contemporary impressionistic artist. Friedli’s work represents places she has explored in her yearly “Artventures'' in the woods, rivers and beyond. Her experiences in the landscape dictate brush strokes in these imaginative and brilliant paintings. Within these kinesthetic and contextual works, Friedli explores the spiritual world through the lens of culture and lived experience of place. Her work is creative, soulful, bold, and powerful.

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1780 West 7th : 1206 Classroom
Thu Oct 23, Thu Oct 30 & Thu Nov 6
6:00 - 9:00 PM

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Min Age   16 yr.