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painting with R&F Pigment STICKS

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Painting with oil sticks allows you to paint without a brush! Learn basic techniques and how to create your own tints, tones, and palettes.

Students will learn about various oil stick products by R&F Pigments, information for safe handling, helpful studio practices, and preparing substrates. The instructor will also demo "direct mark-making" and how to incorporate brayers, cold wax, mixed media, and more.

Artists from all backgrounds will see how this product can enhance their work or start a new direction all together.

Great for all skill levels and those new to working with oils!

Join us as we explore:
  • Opaque and transparent layering
  • Working wet-on-wet and blending
  • How to manage dry times
  • Choosing and prepping surfaces
  • Ability to work with or without solvents
  • ​Creating gestural qualities to your art without a brush
  • Incorporating into acrylic paintings

Workshop Info:​​
  • TBD
  • Cost $85 + a $15 Materials Fee (payable to the instructor)
  • All supplies provided
  • Max 10 students
  • ​All skill levels welcome​
  • Age level: adult (18 & up)

​Parking Info

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​Class Cancellation & Refund Policies

About the instructor

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Kristen Guest

Kristen Guest is an award-winning and published full-time artist as well as a certified art instructor in San Diego, California who works in a variety of mediums and genres. She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Art Education, that focused on painting, book arts and printmaking, and has been teaching realism painting since 2004 and abstract painting since 2018.

Currently, Kristen is the Resident Artist at Bernardo Winery, where her studio is located, and she is a Mentor and the Director of Education at Art on 30th. Her work is represented through Ashton Gallery in San Diego, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, Jen Tough Gallery / Artist Alliance on Artsy, Guest House Staging, and Manzanita Roasting Company. Kristen is best known for using muted and earthy hues that comes out of her love for nature, expressive gestural line work, natural textures, and a simplistic approach to composition.
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"Structure and fun is not usually combined in an instructional class, but Kristen does an amazing job at both! Thank you!

~Jen Klinger
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Art on 30th, 4434 30th Street, San Diego, CA 92116  |  (619) 894-9009  |  arton30th@gmail.com

"An 8,000 square foot, 2-story art center focused on community."

HOURS
Sunday: Closed
Monday–Friday: 10am–4pm
Most Saturdays (except for reception days): 10am-4pm
See calendar page for our next opening reception date.

Cancellation & Refund Info   |   Parking Info

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Art on 30th is ADA approved in all public spaces of the building with a wheelchair accessible front entrance and a handicap parking spot in our back parking lot with a ramp that leads to our wheelchair accessible back entrance. Studios on the 2nd level are privately leased and not part of our public space; artists can apply for wheelchair accessible studio spaces on the 1st floor as part of our Coworking Studios that we offer to the public for a monthly fee  with no commitment/contract (see our Rentals page for more info). 
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