Course Description:

This fun and creative approach to watercolor painting is an exciting way to get started with the media or to enhance and expand your current knowledge. Enjoy learning many basic techniques including wet-into-wet washes, wet-into-dry washes, glazing, color mixing, graduated/flat washes, value studies, and more. Surprise yourself with beautiful color and textural effects that will help you to create unique pieces. Please see the online supply list.

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Course Description:

Have fun learning to produce vibrant, colorful, and unique sketches/drawings using watercolor pencils. Experience a new technique each week, and engage in the sharing and discussion of your artwork. Dry pencils/wet pencils, layering of color, creating color, shading, sketching, washing, lifting, lighting, and composition will be part of our weekly class.

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Course Description:

Explore new ways to appreciate nature and wildlife through art and illustration as you learn basic introductions in artmaking. Learning techniques of drawing, sketching from life, sketching from reference, observing, and appreciating. Each student will utilize these skills to make an original piece by the end of the course.

Skill Level: Beginner

Course Description:

Practice drawing techniques via lectures, warm-up drawings, and longer finished poses. Techniques may include gesture and organizational line, contour line, shape-plane-volume-modeling, value, foreshortening, and anatomical studies. We will work from a clothed model and have critiques to provide a supportive class response. Choose to work in drawing and/or painting mediums.

Skill Level: All Levels

Course Description: 
Continuing our Contemplative Calligraphy practice with the broad-nib Pilot Parallel Pen, we further explore the Italic hand, which dates back to the early Renaissance in Italy. This elegant hand is highly versatile and compact, making it practical for addressing envelopes and for rendering longer quotations and poetry. Emphasis will be on consistency in spacing as well as the letterforms themselves, plus basic composition and layout considerations for calligraphic art. Prerequisite V1010 or consent of instructor.

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Course Description: 

Each landscape has a feel all its own. We will look at how a variety of artists have depicted landscapes in their paintings, and each week be prompted by a topic(such as atmospheric perspective, painting distressed streets and walls, painting bodies of water). Whether you are painting in your own back yard or in a variety of travel locations, we will hone our observational skills, learn new techniques, and work with appropriate color palettes.

Skill Level: All Levels

Course Description: 

Each landscape has a feel all its own. We will look at how a variety of artists have depicted landscapes in their paintings, and each week be prompted by a topic(such as atmospheric perspective, painting distressed streets and walls, painting bodies of water). Whether you are painting in your own back yard or in a variety of travel locations, we will hone our observational skills, learn new techniques, and work with appropriate color palettes.

Skill Level: All Levels