2-Day Workshop - Back to the Basics: Intro to Oil Painting with Margo Burian

2-Day Workshop - Back to the Basics: Intro to Oil Painting with Margo Burian

Class | Available

8/3/2026-8/4/2026
12:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Mon Tue
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$185.00
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2-Day Workshop - Back to the Basics: Intro to Oil Painting with Margo Burian

Class | Available

This is a 2-Day Workshop - August 3 & 4 12-4pm

If you’ve ever wanted to try oil painting, but weren’t sure how to get started, or if you have tried it but would like a refresher on the basics, this class is for you! The focus of this workshop will be on color mixing, mark making, mediums, and surfaces.  

All levels welcome, age 18+.

 


Supply List:
Your own Reference Photos - either hard copies or bring an Ipad/Laptop

Disposable Nitrile Gloves

4 Small - Medium sized pre-stretched Canvases (9x12, 12x12, 11x14, etc. up to 16x20, your choice)


Paint - Recommended Colors:

Titanium White

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue

Cadmium Yellow Medium

Chromatic Black

 

*A note regarding paint - this is a suggested starting point. The goal is to at least have a warm and a cool of each of the primary colors, as well as a generous amount of black and white. If you don’t have these exact colors but have warms and cools of each of the primaries, perfect.  If you have additional colors, great! Bring them along. I generally prefer to use Gamblin Oil Paint, but please bring what you have on hand.

 

Solvents, additives:

Gamsol Solvent (8 oz. minimum)

Liquin

 

Brushes (I tend to use inexpensive soft brushes):

Set of SOFT white nylon FLAT Brushes (Blick Essentials Value Brush Set - Flat Brushes, White Nylon, Set of 12) - variety of shapes (flat, round, fan, filbert, angled, liner - medium sized)

Any other Oil brushes you own or would like to add.

 

Misc. Recommended Supplies:

Palette Paper 16x20 (or larger) for mixing paint OR Portable Palette

Sketch Book, drawing pencil

2 Glass jars with lids for solvent

 

 If you would like to have links emailed to you for recommended supplies, please contact gallery@oliverart.org

***All supplies are available through Dickblick.com

Burian, Margo
Margo Burian

A lifelong artist, Margo Burian currently splits her time between Northern and Southern Michigan.  After a 20 year career as a commercial illustrator, she decided in 2007 to focus solely on making the kind of work that she was most interested in, rather than being bound by the constraints of commercial work. Much of her misspent youth was spent in Northern Michigan, where she developed a love for the serenity and beauty of the woods and the "Big Lake". Time and time again, she finds she is still drawn to those places. While she is perhaps best known for her atmospheric oil landscapes celebrating her love of Northern Michigan, she enjoys working in Acrylic, Collage, and Mixed Media. A self-avowed life long learner, as a teacher she brings to her classes enthusiasm, curiosity and a willingness to meet her students where they’re at on their own artistic path. She has exhibited work in galleries in Traverse City, Harbor Springs, Frankfort, and Grand Rapids, MI.