Art Classes

Tuesdays: 6:00-7:30

1/9/24 – 2/20/24 Skip 2/13

Cost: $135 6 Weeks

Teen to Adult

Oil Stick Landscape Painting with Melissa Talma: Expand your painting horizons with oil sticks, a truly unique art medium! Oil sticks combine the soft blendable or thick impasto effects possible with oil paint, but with the advantage of a much quicker drying time and a tactile experience similar to using pastels. Learn to mix a wide range of colors as well as a variety of techniques for applying these pigmented solid paint sticks while creating your own beautiful landscape painting. This medium allows for experimentation and a multitude of applications!

•  Shiva paint sticks: Basic set of 6 colors (available at The Art Stop)
•  an 11″x14″ primed canvas OR 11″x14″ primed smooth painting panel
•  brushes: 3 to 5 small beat-up brushes someone might already own (sizes 4, 6, 8 work best), or to purchase: small inexpensive “Chisel Blenders” are best, or flat shaders in any size from 4-8 or 1/8″ to 1/4″ size. Also, a small (like size 1 or 2) round or liner brush for details is helpful.
• a glass palette, or gray palette paper pad
• a small palette knife
• a small jar of artist’s walnut or linseed oil
• Gamsol (preferably in a jar with lid)
• paper towels

• art smock or apron
• baby wipes for ease of cleanup
• blue Nitrile gloves or similar (if one doesn’t like touching paint)

Wednesdays 6:30-8:30

Next Session: 1/24/24 – 2/28/24 Skip 2/21

5 weeks $139

•  6-8 tubes of watercolor paints (artist grade preferred) primaries and secondaries, Payne’s gray and a brown
•  Brushes: Rounds: # 1, 4 and 6 and Flat Shaders : 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch (artist grade preferred)
•   #140 lb. Arches (Rough Press or Cold Press) w/c paper
•  Plastic container for water
•  Paper towels
•  2 H or 3 H Pencil
• Plastic eraser
• Watercolor pallet