Oil & Acrylic Painting Exploration

Oil & Acrylic Painting Exploration

Fall Class | Registration opens Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:01 AM EDT

414 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086 United States
3rd Floor Mirror Room
All Levels
9/10/2025-11/26/2025
9:30 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Wed
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$340.00
Member Discount Available

Oil & Acrylic Painting Exploration

Fall Class | Registration opens Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:01 AM EDT

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



    • Windsor + Newton Winton oil pail

    • 00430-0109 Set of ten 37ml (1.25 oz) Dick Blick online. You are going to need more titanium white eventually. 


    • Linseed oil - small jar
    • Turpenoid- odorless solvent - for cleaning brushes - qt.minimum
    • Empty lidded jar for cleaning brushes
    • Palette cup or cups
    • Oil Brushes - 2 flats- a 10 (20mm), a 6 (12mm)
    • mm is the width of the brush. 
    • Oil brushes are stiffer that watercolor brushes, can be purchased: Utrecht natural, Bristol.
    • Palette knife - metal minimum 1/2"wide + 1 1/2 " at least, it should be offset trowel.
    Paper towels
    Disposable paper palette pad (has wax paper on one side)
    Canvas boards or stretched canvas - 8x10, 9x12, 11x14, 12x16 any of these sizes will do but don't get any smaller (we will be painting the in the first class, a painting a class after that.) 

    A shirt or pizza box to transport the wet painting home.  

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. In 1993, he received a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. John's paintings can be seen at Jon Law's Gallery and Frame Shop in Surf City on Long Beach Island, NJ, at the William Ris Gallery in Stone Harbor, NJ, and the Main Street Gallery in Manasquan, NJ.