2-Day Workshop - Spreading Your Wings: Intermediate Oil Painting with Margo Burian

2-Day Workshop - Spreading Your Wings: Intermediate Oil Painting with Margo Burian

Class | Available

9/9/2026-9/10/2026
12:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Wed Th
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$185.00
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2-Day Workshop - Spreading Your Wings: Intermediate Oil Painting with Margo Burian

Class | Available


This is a 2-Day Workshop - September 9 & 10 12-4pm


Welcoming back students from the Back to Basics course as well as new students with some oil experience, this class will help refine skills for beginner-intermediate painters.  Students will dive deeper into color mixing, toning, composition, and methods for planning, starting, building, and completing a painting.  


Intermediate level recommended, age 18+.

 

Supply List:

 

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

 

Paint - Recommended Colors:

Titanium White

Cadmium Red Warm

Alizarin Crimson

Ultramarine Blue

Manganese Blue (Rembrandt Paint)

Cadmium Yellow Medium

Hansa Yellow

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:

Gamvar Solvent

Liquin

Small container refined Linseed Oil

 

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)

Set of Dakota Pro Series Brushes, Long Handle (Dick Blick)

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

 

Misc. Recommended Supplies:

Palette Knife for mixing

Disposable Nitrile Gloves

 

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

Sketch Book

Drawing Pencil

2 Sheets 22x30 Arches Paper for Oil Painters OR Gessoed 22x30 Watercolor Paper

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

Paper Towels (I prefer the Blue Shop Towels)

2 Glass jars with lids for solvent

Blue Painters Tape or White Artist tape

 

 

***All supplies are available through Dickblick.com

  • Supplies:

    • Smart phone or digital camera
    • Multimedia Sketchbook - can be used with water based media (My preference is the Stillman and Birn Zeta Series, wirebound 9x12.)
    • Lyra water-soluble graphite crayon 6B
    • Drawing pencils HB, 2B
    • Sharpie Marker
    • Kneaded eraser
    • Medium round watercolor brush
    • Black acrylic paint
    • White acrylic paint
    • #11 Exacto blade w/cap
    • Small bottle of water for use with the above supplies
    • Small empty container
    • Paper towels
    • Sunscreen
    • Tote or backpack to hold all of the above
    • Portable camp chair
    • A sense of humor and Lunch! :)
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.