Big Brush Painting

Paint large or small! Experience the fun, freedom, and spontaneity of using inexpensive brushes to create paintings. Using acrylic paints or water mixable oils, full-time artist Joe Gallant will demonstrate and guide you through the steps of creating your own seascape or landscape painting that just might become a focal point in your home or office!

You will complete your own acrylic or water mixable oil painting during this fun 3-hour workshop. Joe will provide a reference photo of a scene that will be painted. Suitable for adult beginners, intermediate painters, and past participants in Joe’s workshops.

If you have ever felt unsure of yourself when you start a painting, here’s your chance to learn an exciting technique that just might change the way you paint forever! Students must provide their own supplies. See list below. Wear clothing to paint in and bring a newspaper, old sheet or tarp to protect your car upholstery from wet paint on the ride home.

Materials List:

Art supplies can be purchased at local art supply stores and Michaels.

• ACRYLIC PAINTS OR WATER MIXABLE OIL PAINTS. One tube each of red, blue, yellow, green, and white. Select any shade of each, but not olive green.
• One stretched canvas with a minimum width of at least 20” is recommended.
• 3” and 2” wall-painting brushes. Add a 4” brush if canvas is 30” or larger. Buy the least expensive “Pure Bristle” brushes available in the bottom bins at Home Depot or hardware stores, or search for “chip brushes” on Amazon.
• 1” or 2” wide inexpensive flat art brush
• Plastic or metal palette knife
• Cookie sheet, pie pan, or large art tray for mixing paint
• Small bucket or bowl for water (Optiional: Water sprayer for plants is handy for acrylics)
• Roll of paper towels

Samples of Joe’s work can be seen at Cape Cod Watercolors.

About the Artist

Award-winning Cape Cod artist Joe Gallant is a full-time oil, watercolor, acrylic painter and instructor. His painting technique is loose, spontaneous, and full of interesting color interactions. 
His interest in art began as a child, and his father and mother were both accomplished painters. He had fine art instruction in college, was mentored by artist John Woodruff after moving to Cape Cod, and became a full-time artist on the Cape in 1998. 
Gallant conducts his popular Big Brush Painting Workshops for several art centers and other organizations. In 2019 and 2021, Joe conducted all-day painting workshops for Cape and Islands public and private school arts teachers. 
He has an in-home studio and gallery in Sandwich, Massachusetts that is open by appointment. Gallant’s original paintings, prints, boxed note cards and boxed Christmas cards are available on his website and at numerous retail shops in New England 
He accepts commissions from individuals and businesses.

About the Artist

Award-winning Cape Cod artist Joe Gallant is a full-time oil, watercolor, acrylic painter and instructor. His painting technique is loose, spontaneous, and full of interesting color interactions.

His interest in art began as a child, and his father and mother were both accomplished painters. He had fine art instruction in college, was mentored by artist John Woodruff after moving to Cape Cod, and became a full-time artist on the Cape in 1998.

Gallant conducts his popular Big Brush Painting Workshops for several art centers and other organizations. In 2019 and 2021, Joe conducted all-day painting workshops for Cape and Islands public and private school arts teachers.

He has an in-home studio and gallery in Sandwich, Massachusetts that is open by appointment. Gallant’s original paintings, prints, boxed note cards and boxed Christmas cards are available on his website and at numerous retail shops in New England.

He accepts commissions from individuals and businesses.