Paint the Pacific: A 4-Week Acrylic Painting Series - Create Two Finished Paintings
Learn how to express ocean movement, light, and emotion through acrylics - and create two of your own original paintings, each infused with your unique vision and personality.
The Experience: Painting is more than technique — it’s about capturing a feeling, a memory, a moment in motion. In this four-week series, you’ll explore acrylic painting in a way that feels expressive, relaxed, and nourishing. Together, we’ll work with layered color, texture, and movement — translating the energy of the Pacific into paint. Each session builds on the last, guiding you from blank canvas to finished artwork with confidence and ease. This class is designed to feel like stepping into the ocean: grounding, inspiring, and alive.
What You’ll Create: Each student will complete two finished 9 x 12" (or larger) acrylic paintings over the four sessions. Painting One: Focus on composition, movement, and expressive mark-making styles. Painting Two: Explore personal expression, layered color, and texture inspired by ocean light. You’ll learn how to move through the full painting process — choosing a meaningful subject, composition, color mixing, layering, and finishing — while developing your own visual voice.
What You’ll Learn: How to build strong, balanced compositions, color mixing for ocean blues, soft neutrals, and glowing highlights. Acrylic techniques including glazing, dry brush, blending, and alternative painting tools.
Who This Series Is For: — beginners and returning painters are welcome. For ocean lovers, anyone craving a calm, inspiring creative space, people who want to make something meaningful with their hands. If the ocean settles your nervous system, sparks your imagination, or pulls at your heart — this class will feel like home.
What’s Included: Everything you need is provided
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Two stretched 9 x 12 canvases
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Easels
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High-quality acrylic paints
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Brushes, palettes, and texture tools
Just arrive and paint — no supplies to purchase ahead of time.
Format & Details:4 sessions over 4 weeks, 2 hours per session, Small group setting (6 students maximum). Classes take place inside my working studio and gallery in Del Mar — a peaceful, ocean-filled space surrounded by original artwork and natural light.
Tuition: $420 per student
Space is limited to keep the experience intimate and supportive.Enrollment closes once the class is full.
Location: Sarah O’Connor Art Gallery1049 Camino Del Mar, Suite E. Del Mar, CA 92014
Enrollment: Reserve your easel — space is limited.👉 Button links to registration / payment when ready)
About the Instructor: I’m Sarah O’Connor — a lifelong ocean lover, painter, surfer, and gallery owner in Del Mar. My work explores the balance between movement and stillness, translating the energy of the Pacific into layered, expressive paintings.Teaching is an extension of my own creative practice. My goal is not for you to paint like me — but to help you discover your own relationship with color, texture, and movement through the ocean as inspiration.
Cancellation PolicyCancellations accepted up to 7 days before the first class.
Classes are non-refundable once the series begins
Missed sessions cannot be rescheduled *exceptional circumstances considered individually