Oil Painting Series: From Foundations to Flow with Ember Estridge
Build your confidence one brushstroke at a time in this four-week oil painting series designed for beginners and emerging artists. Starting with foundational techniques and gradually expanding into color mixing, composition, and expressive brushwork, each class builds on the skills learned the week before.
Using non-toxic water-mixable oils and summer-inspired subjects, you'll create beautiful paintings while developing the confidence and techniques to continue painting long after the series ends. No experience is necessary—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to create.
Week 1: Foundations + Materials
Intro to oil painting
Sunrise/Sunset Intro
Week 2: Building Form
Orange you glad you signed up for class?
(We are painting an orange)
Light + shadow
Week 3: Composition + Confidence
Pathway forward (Painting a 1 point perspective path)
Composition tips (focal point, balance)
Week 4 Refinement + Finish
FINISH anything that needs to be finished.
IF we are finished we will do a Flower Painting.
DATES & TIMES:
Mondays | 5:30-7:30 PM
4-week series
August 3rd, 10, 17, 24 2026
INVESTMENT:
$135 supplies included
ABOUT THE TEACHER:
I make illustrative art that is explorative and eclectic in nature. Using vivid colors and whimsical themes, I seek to use art as a tool for coping and overcoming the discordant world we live in. Creating both sequential mass consumption pieces as well as stand-alone gallery pieces, I desire my work to captivate a wide audience.
As an art educator in public Title 1 schools, much of my work is inspired and created around the classroom. I tailor projects and lessons to engage and motivate students, impacting my own art making in the process. The resourcefulness and inventiveness of creating art projects accessible to a wide range of students and ages allows me to see multiple possibilities for each art material.
Build your confidence one brushstroke at a time in this four-week oil painting series designed for beginners and emerging artists. Starting with foundational techniques and gradually expanding into color mixing, composition, and expressive brushwork, each class builds on the skills learned the week before.
Using non-toxic water-mixable oils and summer-inspired subjects, you'll create beautiful paintings while developing the confidence and techniques to continue painting long after the series ends. No experience is necessary—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to create.
Week 1: Foundations + Materials
Intro to oil painting
Sunrise/Sunset Intro
Week 2: Building Form
Orange you glad you signed up for class?
(We are painting an orange)
Light + shadow
Week 3: Composition + Confidence
Pathway forward (Painting a 1 point perspective path)
Composition tips (focal point, balance)
Week 4 Refinement + Finish
FINISH anything that needs to be finished.
IF we are finished we will do a Flower Painting.
DATES & TIMES:
Mondays | 5:30-7:30 PM
4-week series
August 3rd, 10, 17, 24 2026
INVESTMENT:
$135 supplies included
ABOUT THE TEACHER:
I make illustrative art that is explorative and eclectic in nature. Using vivid colors and whimsical themes, I seek to use art as a tool for coping and overcoming the discordant world we live in. Creating both sequential mass consumption pieces as well as stand-alone gallery pieces, I desire my work to captivate a wide audience.
As an art educator in public Title 1 schools, much of my work is inspired and created around the classroom. I tailor projects and lessons to engage and motivate students, impacting my own art making in the process. The resourcefulness and inventiveness of creating art projects accessible to a wide range of students and ages allows me to see multiple possibilities for each art material.