Oil Painting with Light and Color

Description

Oil Painting with Light and Color

with Lili Anne Laurin

November 10, 2025 | Monday | 9 am – 4:00 pm

Experience Level: All levels of experience are welcome.
Medium: Oil
Registration: Each student must register individually. Click the Cancellation Policy tab above for more info.
Materials List: Click the Materials List tab above for a list of materials/supplies students need to bring with them.
Location: Sedona Arts Center/Theatre Studio

This workshop will focus on developing dynamic three-dimensional works using subtle color and value shifts. We will work on developing the feeling of distance in the landscape and cover some basics of color theory, how to use hard and soft edges and directional brushwork to achieve the results you are looking for in your work. We will be working from photographs, supplied by the instructor or you can work from your own references. The instructor will give plenty of one-on-one guidance.

25 1110w LL

Lili Anne Laurin

Lili Laurin’s western landscape paintings reflect the glow and dramatic light that are iconic of the Arizona landscape. An avid plein air artist, she is often out at the crack of dawn, on site and ready to capture the sunbathed scene of gorgeous early morning light. Without faithful adherence to regular plein air excursions, her studio effort could not reflect the knowledge gained from that important experience. She applies her hard earned knowledge to her larger works. Lili makes several yearly excursions to paint at the Grand Canyon, which is one of the most complex challenging landscape scenes to distill onto a canvas. Another favorite subject of this landlocked artist is seascapes, so there are plans this year to travel to the California Coast.

Ms. Laurin is regularly invited into prestigious national juried exhibitions and is he recipient of many awards including the Southwest Art Award of Excellence and the honorific Tucson Desert Art Museum Purchase Award for her painting of Lee’s Ferry Landing, an almost dreamlike interpretation of a peaceful section of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon. She most recently garnered the Realism Award of Excellence for Opuntia at the 2023 Oil Painters of American which recently sold at the Gallery of the Sedona Art Center.

Art Education

Art Student’s League- New York

Michael Burban – Anatomy

Joseph Peller – Figure painting

Workshops with accomplished National Artists

Raymond Evertte Kinsler – Figure Painting

Paul McCormack – Portrait painting in oil and watercolor

Kenn Backhaus – General education in plein air and studio painting

Thomas Kitts- Plein air to studio

Howard Friedland – Plein air Landscape Painting

Frank Serrano – Plein Air Landscape Painting

David Shevlino – In Studio Figure Painting

Matt Smith – In Studio Landscape Painting

Koo Stark – Egg Tempra

Ruo Li – In Studio Seascape Painting

Greg Beecham – Wildlife Painting

Scott Talman Powers – Plein air Landscape Painting

Bill Cramer – Plein Air Grand Canyon Painting

Michael Hernandez – Online, Gouache

Douglas Fryer- Advanced Painting Exploration

OPA National Exhibitions

2014 OPA 23rd National Exhibition

2019 OPA 28th National Exhibition

2020 OPA 29th National Exhibition

OPA Regional Exhibitions

2013 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition

2016 OPA Western Regional Exhibition

2021 OPA Western Regional Exhibition

2023 OPA Western Regional Exhibition – Realism Award of Excellence for Opuntia

Awards, Honors and other Exhibitions

2003 Somerset Art Association, Bedminster, NJ – Best in Show

2010 Greenhouse Gallery Salon International Jury’s Top Sixty

2011 Cranfod Plein Air Paint Out, New Jersey

2012 Cranford Plein Air Paint Out, New Jersey People’s Choice Award

2012 CM Russel National Show and Auction

2013 Greenhouse Gallery Salon International

Jury’s Top Sixty Award and Judge’s Honorable Mention – Judge Max Ginsberg

2016 Scottdale’s Artist’s School- Member’s juried Show – Honorable Mention

2017 American Women Artists National Exhibition – Under a Vast Sky

Southwest Art Award of Excellence and Purchase Award for Permanent Collection of the Tucson Desert Art Museum.

2017 American Impressionists Society National Exhibition

2017 Sedona Arts Center – Best in Show

2017 Women Artists of the West 47th National

2022 American Women Artists’ 2022 Spring Online Juried Show

2022 NOAPS Associates Online Exhibition – Merit Award Award

2023 NOAPS Best of America Small Work Exhibition

2023 NOAPS Fall International Online Exhibition

Shows

2008 2 Person Show – Highlands Art Gallery

2012 Feminine Mystique – 3 person show – Highlands Art Gallery

2022 A Brush Above the Rest – Gallery Artists’ Show Highlands Art Gallery

Articles featured in Southwest Art Magazine – 2018 “Artists to Watch” – September

(A magazine copy is available)

Courier News – NJ 2003 “Artists’ Colony (article on founding members of Studio 7 in

Bernardsville, NJ

Memberships

Oil Painters of America

American Impressionist Society

American Women Artists of America. – Member with Distinction

National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society

Gallery representation:

Highlands Art Gallery, Lambertville, NJ (highlandsartgallery.com)

McBride Gallery, Annapolis, MA (mcbridegallery.com)

Gallery at Sedona Art Center (sedonaartscenter.org)

Materials List

Instructor’s color palette
Titaniam White
Viridian Green Hue (Holbein)
Ultramarine Blue
Aizarin Crimson (Grumbacher is my prefernce but any artists’ quality brand will do). Cadmium Red Light
Cadmium Orange
Cadmium Yellow Deep
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Yellow Ochre
Transparent Oxide Orange

Gamblin Galkyd Gel (or medium of your choice).

Palette

Palette knife

Container with Gamsol (for thining and cleaning paint)

Brushes
Long ﬂat bristol or ivory brushes in sizes #2, #4, #6, #8
Filberts in sizes #4 and #6
I use Rosemarys and Trekkel brands

Panels 6” x 8”, 8” x *’ 8” x 10”, 9” x 12” 10’ x 12” and or 6” x 12”. Bring two or three diﬀerent sizes.

Centurion Oil Primed Linen would be a good choice or a good quality cotton canvas will also work.

A small easel to hold a photograph upright.

(The School will supply easels.)

Paper towels

Pencil or willow charcoal for sketching out your composition.

If you have any questions, please contact Lili at laurinart@icloud.com

Cancellation Policy

Registration and Cancellation Policies

Registration

Each student must enroll individually.
Classes must be paid in full upon registration.
Students may register online or call Sedona Arts Center Office at 928-282-3809, Ext 1 or toll free at 866-282-3809 Ext 1.
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.

In-Person and Online Classes Cancellation

Payment in full is due upon registration, or a payment plan can be put in place by the student upon check-out through Sezzle.
There is a $125 Cancellation Fee for any cancellations made before October 10, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after October 10, 2025.
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.

Note: If traveling to Sedona, we strongly urge students to purchase refundable airline tickets or travel insurance in case of workshop cancellation due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen changes. Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for non-refundable ticket purchases or lodging fees.

Important Message

Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.

D. Dean

I met Lili in 2015 at an APAP paint out. We both wanted to explore plein out in the desert and started to meet up and do just that. Over the ensuing years we became experts at the adventure of plein air and Lili taught me so much about painting in general and composition in the field. Tangent! Her favorite warning, something I hadn't given much thought until then. When it come to plein air Lili is an expert. She knows how to plan the trip, when to get up, when to arrive there, what to pack and what to leave behind...and when to keep it or scrape it. We have painted Arizona from top to bottom, especially Sedona and the Grand Canyon. She is a natural teacher. Her classes will fill up quickly and her students will be back for more.

G. Hull

When I got interested in approaching the gouache medium, I immediately thought of my friend Lili Laurin. I had seen her excellent gouache paintings on Instagram and Facebook and I knew she had plenty to teach me. Just watching her demo was eye opening and very informative. I had tried watercolor before but this was completely different and her demo showed me how to manipulate the paint for maximum effect and I now love the medium.

Instructor Information

Lili Anne Laurin

Lili Laurin's western landscape paintings reflect the glow and dramatic light that are iconic of the Arizona landscape. An avid plein air artist, she is often out at the crack of dawn, on site and ready to capture the sunbathed scene of gorgeous early morning light. Without faithful adherence to regular plein air excursions, her studio effort could not reflect the knowledge gained from that important experience. She applies her hard earned knowledge to her larger works. Lili makes several yearly excursions to paint at the Grand Canyon, which is one of the most complex challenging landscape scenes to distill onto a canvas. Another favorite subject of this landlocked artist is seascapes, so there are plans this year to travel to the California Coast. Ms. Laurin is regularly invited into prestigious national juried exhibitions and is he recipient of many awards including the Southwest Art Award of Excellence and the honorific Tucson Desert Art Museum Purchase Award for her painting of Lee's Ferry Landing, an almost dreamlike interpretation of a peaceful section of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon. She most recently garnered the Realism Award of Excellence for Opuntia at the 2023 Oil Painters of American which recently sold at the Gallery of the Sedona Art Center.

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