Beginner 2 Oils
Class | Available
Begin Your Next Oil Painting Adventure!
Ready to take the next step in your oil painting journey? Beginners 2 is designed for those who have a basic understanding of oil painting and are eager to build on their skills. In this class, we’ll go beyond the fundamentals with guided exercises to help you develop stronger compositions, explore color mixing in depth, and gain more control over your brushwork.
What You’ll Learn:
Techniques for creating depth, light, and texture in your paintings
How to plan a painting with composition and value sketches
Tips for mixing color harmonies and working with a limited palette
Guided Painting Session:
Work on a simple still life no photos plenty of individual guidance. This is your chance to practice, experiment, and grow your personal style.
Bring your own supplies ( list below)
Bring a notebook or sketchbook for notes and thumbnails.
Continue your creative journey in a fun, supportive environment—let’s keep painting!
- Supply list:
- paper towels or rags
- palette
- odorless turpentine
- canvas -- no larger than 16x20
- at least 4 brushes (the largest you are comfortable working with)
- at least the basic primary colors I.e. Cadmium red, cadmium yellow, burnt sienna and ultramarine blue.
Arlene Marcoe-Davis
For as far as I can remember making art in its many forms is the way that I express myself in this world. In school I studied drawing, ceramics, painting, jewelry and stage design and leaving with a modest scholarship I intended to attend the Art Student League in NYC. Fate however had other plans and I moved to the Island of Maui.
I was an active member of the Lahaina Art Society and the Hui No’Eau. I furthered my studies with seminars on the mainland with master pastelist Albert Handel and Daniel Greene as well as watercolorist, Judi Betts. After 25 years in the islandsI found myself here in New Jersey and I took advantage of being able to study portraiture and anatomy with instructor Al Gury at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. It was then that I fell in love with oil paint.
Today I work in my studio that overlooks the marshland of South
Jersey. I know longer paint for prizes or profit, just the sheer joy of it. I recently withdrew my membership to the Salmagundi Club in NYC and am enjoying teaching locally.