Painting Classes
Julie Marie Hoey will offer acrylic painting classes at MEL starting Tuesday June 9, 2026. This workshop will run for four weeks, with 90-minutes classes beginning at 11:00 AM. Register online in the MEL Shop.
Classes will begin with exercises in the following; color theory (complementary colors, blending, mixing and values exploration) form and perspective (how everything is a basic shape and physical and atmospheric perspective), lighting and tone (softer versus bright lighting and reflective lighting) and then moving onto working on a painting.
Julie Marie will supply canvas paper for practice exercises, but students will bring their own supplies and brushes. Art supplies can be purchased at Arqline. There are several in Mérida. Here is a supply list:
Canvas, 16” x 20”
Pallet Paper
Pallet Knife
Acrylic Paint: Titanium White (Zinc white if they don’t have this), Cadmium Yellow (medium tone), Cadmium Red (medium tone), Ultramarine Blue (they should have this), Viridiana Green (dark with bright tone), Burnt Sienna (rust), Burnt Umber (dark brown). If you cannot find the exact name of the paint color, ask the sales person to recommend the closest color.
Retardant - Optional but this does keep the paint from drying so quickly
Rags - a large and a medium or two medium size
Water Jar
Brushes: Medium Filbert, Medium Flat, Small Round & Medium Round
From left to right: Filbert, Flat, Round
Please send an email to Julie for more information.
ABOUT THE TEACHER
Julie Marie Hoey is an award-winning artist and poet. Her artwork along with her poetry has been published in anthologies and journals, has exhibited nationally and lives in collections worldwide.
Julie Marie’s work comes from a place of joy as well as life experiences. Her quest in depicting nature with words or paint is to find solace and to embrace storms. She is drawn to the skies, towards the heavens. Here she discovers she can convey her sense of home or her battling of demons. Her visual work and writing are mainly nature based and spiritual. Julie Marie feels possibility when creating. She listens to the rhythms of the paint or the words. She lets her brush or pen guide. Julie Marie looks for the heart of the matter that she isn’t always aware of until in the act of creating. Her mind begins the journey. Her spirit, soul, brush and pen complete it.
You can see her work under the name The Spiral Studio on Facebook and Instagram.
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