All inclusive creative retreats, painting vacations & art getaways
Julie Snidle
October 12 - 17, 2025
Discovering Oil and Cold Wax
Medium: Oil and Mixed Media
Level: All Levels
Location: Studio
Status: Open for Enrollment
Deposit is $450, balance due 30 days before arrival
Day Student Tuition: $975 + Materials fee & Ct Sales Tax
5-Day Package*: $1,950 - $2,650* + Materials fee & Ct Accommodations Tax
*Your 5-Day Workshop Package includes:
Workshop Tuition, lodging, dinner 2 nights (welcome and farewell), breakfast and lunch each day, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer.
For your independent dinners, there are many restaurants with a wide variety of cuisines and price points, within comfortable walking distance of the Inn, plus Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s.
You can choose a room to yourself (single occupancy) or double your fun, bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
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About This Workshop
Discovering Oil and Cold Wax
This workshop is for those who would like to learn a non-traditional approach to oil painting or explore oils for the first time. Cold wax medium is an additive that thickens oil paint, speeds up the drying time (a bit), and neutralizes the paint so there’s no concern about “fat over lean” rules. We will be using R&F’s Pigment Sticks (compressed oil paints) along with tube oils to create paintings without brushes or smelly solvents. You will discover new tools and methods for creating rich and authentic small works on paper and Ampersand’s Gessoboard. With Arches oil paper as our primary substrate, you’ll have several paintings going at once and they can easily be transported back home. This workshop is fun, a bit messy, and will change the way you think about oil painting.
About Julie Snidle
Julie Snidle is a full-time artist with classroom teaching experience and a background in corporate training and administration. She was introduced to wax-based media in 2004 and has made it her primary focus since then. She is a Core Artist/Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and an Artist Ambassador for Ampersand Art Panels. Julie is represented by Canary Gallery in Birmingham and the Kolman Reeb Gallery in Minneapolis, which recently awarded her a grant for their Project Space. Her abstract work has received numerous awards and can be found in private collections and public spaces nationwide. Julie taught at Penland School of Craft, Bennington College for North Country Studio Workshops and continues to teach at many other fine venues throughout the U.S. A native of Minneapolis, Julie currently lives in Fairhope, Alabama where she offers private painting workshops in her studio.
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Here is the payment schedule:
$450 deposit is due at the time of registration.
Remaining balance is due 30 days before your retreat start date
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