3 Mini Oil Paintings in 3 Weeks

3 Mini Oil Paintings in 3 Weeks

Class | Available

94 Stafford Ave. Manahawkin, NJ 08050 United States
TBD
Intermediate and Advanced
11/3/2026-11/17/2026
12:00 PM-3:00 PM EDT on Tue
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10/27/2026

3 Mini Oil Paintings in 3 Weeks

Class | Available

Alla Prima Mini Painting Series

Join us for a three-class oil painting series, completing a finished 6" × 8" painting in each class. We’ll work alla prima (wet-on-wet), completing each painting in one sitting with an emphasis on fresh color and confident brushwork.

Students will have a choice of still-life subjects each week, including some seasonal and holiday-inspired options.

Each three-hour class will focus on:

Hour 1: Composition and block-in
Hour 2: Establishing strong values and form
Hour 3: Adding color, refining edges, and finishing details

By the end of the series, you’ll have three completed oil paintings while strengthening your understanding of composition, values, color, and brushwork.

Class size is limited to 10 students for plenty of individual guidance.

  • Supply list
    1) 3 6x8 canvases
    2) paper towels
    3) odorless solvent
    4) palette
    5) brushes - a variety of sizes and shapes
    6) oil paints: titanium white, ivory black, cadmium red alizarin crimson , cadmium yellow light, ultramarine blue. 
Arlene Marcoe-Davis

For as far back 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 Students 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 Handell and Daniel Greene, as well as watercolorist Judi Betts. After 25 years in the islands, I 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 the 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 no longer paint for prizes or profit, just the sheer joy of it. I recently withdrew my membership from the Salmagundi Club in NYC and am enjoying teaching locally.