WEDNESDAY 1:30 – 4:00
OIL PAINTING
INSTRUCTOR: JOSEPH MELANCON
ALL LEVELS $80.00 – monthly
This is a chance to take oil painting from one of the finest oil painters in the country.
Artists who take Joseph’s classes and workshops become better painters. Joseph begins by finding what you 
do right. No matter what your level of painting is, he takes you to the next level. You leave each class experience with a personal road map for continuing to improve. Joseph takes you through the whole process of planning and executing successful paintings. What is your goal? How do you compose the painting for the strongest composition and design? What do you leave in and what do you take out? What kind of brush strokes, edges, light, color harmony, drawing and relationships do you need in your paintings? What do you need to do to make your work read across a room and move the viewer?
Each day will be a whole new experience of ideas, techniques and discoveries. Joseph cares deeply that you understand painting. Classes include demonstrations, painting time, critiques and private instruction.
ABOUT JOSEPH MELANCON
Joseph is a versatile artist whose range of work includes painting, collage and sculpture. He paints on paper, wood panels and canvas. Lifelong interests including landscape, figure, antique toys, the circus and the American Indian are portrayed with multilayered meaning using abstraction as well as expressive realism.
His works are very personal with a passion for process, composition and the painterly surface. Design and dimensional production work in science and history museums and advertising media contributed greatly to Joseph’s extensive knowledge of methods and materials used in his work.
For many years he taught drawing and painting at Eastfield College in Dallas, Texas in addition to giving workshops and Lecture/Demos across the country.
Books featuring his paintings include; 200 NEW PAINTING IDEAS, 1998 North Light Books SPLASH FIVE: The Glory of Color, 1998 North Light Books ARTS FOR THE PARKS TOP 100: Artist’s Celebrating our National Parks 1996,National Park Academy of the Arts, Inc. CREATIVE WATERCOLOR: Step-by-Step Guide and Showcase, l995 Rockport Publishers SPLASH THREE: Ideas & Inspirations, 1994 North Light Books
Joseph was featured in a seven page article in the February, l995 issue of American Artist Magazine. He has won 25 awards in national juried exhibitions, including the CFS Medal in the American Watercolor Society and Best of Show in the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies.
He is a Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society, Southwest Watercolor Society, Western Federation of Watercolor Societies and others.