Oil & Acrylic Painting Exploration
Spring Class | This course is completed
Experience the thrill of color, texture, and light! Learn new strategies to improve your painting. Fine-tune your skills with the palette to better express yourself. Instructor demonstrations and art history discussions will whet your appetite to paint! Art History will also be used to show examples of concepts being taught in class
Student grade oil paint: Titanium white (Big tube), Cadmium red, Cadmium yellow, French ultramarine blue, Viridian, Alizarin crimson, Ivory black (small tube), Yellow ochre, Burnt sienna
Metal Palette knife - trowel like
Uneven diamond blade, approximately 1 1/2 inches long
Odorless mineral spirits
Small jar of linseed oil
Double palette cup
Paper towels
Empty lidded jar
Two flat and two round brushes #'s 4 and 6
John Meehan
John T. Meehan III was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He graduated from Tyler School of Art, Temple University’s art school, in 1982 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting.
He painted and worked various part-time jobs, eventually coaching gymnastics full-time. John met his future wife while painting on the beach in Cape May, New Jersey two weekends before starting graduate school at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
In 1993, he received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting. He stopped coaching when he got married in 1994. His career as a stay-at-home father began in May of 1996, while teaching evening art classes at various places. After the birth of his second child, he taught only at the Community Art Center in Wallingford two nights a week.
John's paintings can be seen at Wildflower Too Gallery in Barnegat Light NJ and The Main Street Gallery in Manasquan NJ.