Oil Painting Exploration: Beginning & Intermediate

During this class that is open to beginners and more advanced students alike, you will be able to craft your own curriculum.

If you are a beginner in oil, you will be given more structured guidance through an exploration of color, medium and application in the traditional Grisaille method.

As an intermediate and advanced student, you will be able to explore many different content areas looking at narrative still life, portraiture, master copies and more!

Come escape the stresses of life and explore the fun of oil painting!

This class takes place both in our interior 2nd-floor painting studio with ample artificial lighting and in the porch studio with north-facing large picture windows.

Each student will be assigned a space for the entire semester.

Supplies for Beginner Level Student:

Supplies:

drawing brush
filbert brushes #4, #6, #10
palette knife
11 x 14 canvas
linseed oil
turpenoid
2 glass jars

Oil paints:

ultramarine blue
raw umber
alizarin crimson
lemon yellow
yellow ochre
burnt sienna
titanium white

In addition to the above, please bring paper towels/rags and an apron/smock/old shirt

Supplies for Intermediate Level Students: Pleasebring your regular oil painting supplies and the instructor will fine tunethese with you when you come for your first class.

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Summer 2025

6/3/2025

7/22/2025

1:00 PM

4:00 PM

TUE

Main Building

438

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Instructor:

Andrew Rodgers

The Executive Director of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, Andrew Rodgers, is an arts administrator, arts educator, and artist. He sits on the New Orleans Arts Council and is a passionate champion of the arts who has worked with arts institutions throughout the Gulf Coast to improve the lives of people through the arts.

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