Oil & Acrylic Painting Exploration
Winter Class | Registration opens Wednesday, November 4, 2026 6:00 AM EDT
Experience the thrill of color, texture, and light! Learn new strategies to improve your painting. Use oil paint or acrylic, your choice! 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.
- You can choose to work in oil OR acrylic paint. Additional supplies required for oil paint are noted below.
Please bring the following materials to class:- Student grade oil paint OR acrylic paint: Titanium white (Big tube), Cadmium red, Cadmium yellow, French ultramarine blue, Viridian, Alizarin crimson, Ivory black (small tube), Yellow ochre, Burnt sienna
- Odorless mineral spirits *if using oil paint
- Small jar of linseed oil *if using oil paint
- Double palette cup to hold mineral spirits and linseed oil *if using oil paint
- Water mister or spray bottle with fine spray setting *if using acrylics
- Metal Palette knife, trowel-like
- Uneven diamond blade, approximately 1 1/2 inches long
- Paper towels
- Empty lidded jar
- Two flat and two round brushes #'s 4 and 6
- Pre-stretched canvas
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.