Still-life Oil Painting
taught by Lisa David
This course is designed for students with prior oil painting experience who want to strengthen their ability to paint from direct observation and create compelling still life compositions. The class focuses on developing accuracy, sensitivity to light, and confident paint handling through close study of form, color, and surface.
Students will work from a variety of objects, textures, and lighting conditions. Instruction will emphasize drawing for painters, proportion, color relationships, value structure, edges, and the illusion of form through light and shadow.
Through demonstrations, individualized instruction, and group critiques, students will complete 1-2 fully developed still life oil paintings.
All materials will be provided orr students can bring their own. A supply list can be found here Beginner Oil Painting Supply List.
4 session classes, Tuesdays, March 10-31, 2026, 6:00-9:00 PM
Materials not Included $180.00 member/$216.00 non-member
Materials Included $225 member/$270 non-member
About the instructor
Award-winning artist Lisa David was born and raised in upstate New York, where she spent much of her childhood camping in the Adirondack Mountains. Those early experiences sparked a lifelong love for the region and continue to inspire her work. A child of the sixties and seventies with a suburban upbringing that was, at times, a bit offbeat, Lisa finds beauty and nostalgia in vintage subjects—often capturing them with playful energy and a bold use of color.
Lisa began her career running a successful production pottery business. When the physical demands of clay led her to shift focus, she pursued a teaching degree and became a National Board Certified Art Teacher. For 20 years, she taught high school art, nurturing creativity in young artists while continuing to grow her own practice.
Now retired from public education, Lisa teaches advanced drawing and painting at the Saratoga Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. She continues to paint from her cabin in the Adirondacks, where the landscape, light, and memories of summers past still fuel her artistic passion.
Member, Oil Painters of America
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