Express Yourself In Oil Paints

Express Yourself In Oil Paints

Adult Class | Registration opens 2/19/2025 8:00 PM EST

Adult all levels
3/25/2025-5/27/2025
1:00 PM-3:30 PM EST on Tue
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$350.00
$315.00

Express Yourself In Oil Paints

Adult Class | Registration opens 2/19/2025 8:00 PM EST

Explore the vibrant colors, textures, and timeless beauty of oil paints. Learn about values, color mixing, texture, edges and how to select a good composition. Instructor will cover the materials used in oil painting, including paint, brushes, surfaces, and medium. Instructor will demonstrate a variety of painting techniques and will provide individual and class instruction and informative handouts for each topic. Bring sharp 8” x 10” or larger printed photo references or use one provided by instructor (no electronic references). Class critiques and one-on-one instruction. Beginner/Intermediate, Teens/Adults. A materials list will be provided prior to class. Free subscription to instructor’s monthly Art Newsletter

  • Supplies can be ordered online, or purchased in store at Jerry’s Artarama, Dick Blick, or Hull’s. Michael’s has some of the items.

    Drawing Materials (Mandatory)

    Twelve inch or larger sketch pad with pencil, eraser, ruler and vine charcoal for drawing thumbnails, doing studies, and transferring the design to canvas.

    Canvas or Panels

    Purchase a canvas or panel. You can purchase canvas in different grades. For most landscapes, I prefer a medium grade. For smaller sizes, I would use Ampersand Gesso Board panels, but you can use canvas. If painting for the first time, keep the size small, under 11x14.

    Paint Colors

    I recommend Professional or Artist Grade Oil Colors, if you can afford it. They have less filler and cover better. However, student grade is acceptable.

    Examples of student grade are Winton, Grumbacher Academy, Bob Ross, Daler Rowney Georgian, Gamblin 1980, Van Gogh, Blick Studio.

    Windsor Newton Artist’s Oil Color (Pro/Student)

    Examples of Professional/Artist grade are: Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Schmincke, Holbein, Blockx, Old Holland, Williamsburg, Daniel Smith, Michael Harding, Charvin, Vasari, Utrecht.

    Colors:

    Required:

    · Titanium White

    · Ultramarine Blue

    · Burnt Umber or Transparent Oxide Brown

    · Cadmium Yellow Light

    · Cadmium Red

    · Viridian (green)

    · Alizarin Crimson

    Optional colors

    · Prussian or Thalo Blue or Cerulean Blue

    · Cobalt Blue

    · Cadmium Yellow medium

    · Yellow Ochre

    · Burnt Sienna or Transparent Oxide Red

    Brushes and Knives (required)

    · A combination of bristle brushes. I suggest small medium and large in sizes 4, 8, 10. Buy a combination of Filberts, Rounds and Flats.

    · One or two synthetic flats/filberts in medium and large sizes for blending and softening edges.

    · Synthetic rounds in small sizes for detail. I suggest Winsor and Newton Septre Gold or Silver Ruby Satin.

    · Medium-sized palette knife. Get the one that has a rounded, off-set blade for mixing paint.

    Solvent (Mandatory)

    Bring Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits for thinning paint (do not substitute). Please bring a leak proof container. You can use a jar with a tight lid, but it’s best to purchase an air-tight brush washer that you can get at an art supply store.

    Easels and Palettes (Mandatory)

    · Portable table top easel or Julian or French Easel.

    · A wooden palette and/or palette paper for mixing paint.

    Other

    · Linseed Oil

    · Paper towels for clean up or soft cotton rag.

    · Good photo reference. I have many to choose from but you can bring your own. Very Important! Size photo to at least 8” x 10” NO Tablet or Phone Reference, please!

Patricia Meglio

Patty began taking drawing and painting lessons in the late 90s, and starting in 2003, she began studying painting with local artists, including Marc Antony Massaro in Branford, CT, Terry Oakes-Bourret in Durham, CT, and Hagop Keledjian in Putney, Vermont. She paints mostly in oil on canvas or linen or on panels. Patty’s work is modern impressionist style, mostly depicting country landscapes, seascapes, and still life. Her inspiration stems from twentieth century impressionist art, including works by Sargent, Sorolla, de Lazlo, and Boldini, and modern artists including Schmid, Hanson, Guzik, Demers, and Liberace. She draws her inspirations, as they did, from early twentieth-century architecture, the art deco and Greek classical styles of urban buildings, weather worn barns and open pastures of the country farms, and rocky and sandy beaches lined with classic New England cottages. Patty is a past participant in juried competitions for the Clinton Art Society, Madison Art Society, Artwalk for the West Hartford Art League, and the Mavis Fenner Memorial for the Rowayton Arts Center, and is a winner of the Merchant’s Prize at the Madison Art Show in 2007. She has exhibited in numerous venues throughout the state of Connecticut and New Hampshire. Her work is held in private collections throughout the country. She is a member of the Hamden Art League and the Madison Art Society.