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 Italic students are invited to explore the labyrinth, which is endlessly adaptable for artmaking. Discover the various classical patterns of labyrinths throughout the ages, and how they can be adapted for lettering and design. The labyrinthine paths are conducive to our creativity and equanimity, and promote safety and calm. In this class we will letter beautiful words in the Italic hand along the meandering patterns of various labyrinths. Prerequisite: Italic calligraphy experience, or consent of the instructor.

Course Description:

Color is one of the primary building blocks of a good painting!  Start at the beginning with a solid foundation of color usage.  Color theory and science  will be applied in beginning exercises. 

Students will then learn to use color, value, color groupings and composition to create basic, dimensional still life paintings.  Group lecture and individual instruction help students on their way to mastering color usage in painting.

All opaque mediums welcome. 

Course Description:

Relax, have fun, gain confidence & feel supported in each class as you receive simple, step-by-step instructions for how to draw a given object and further enhance it by incorporating elemental strokes and basic, repetitive patterns used in the Zentangle© art method.  

Skill Level: All Levels

• This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class: (www.zoom.us)

Course Description:

We explore the nature of pastel and how to create wonderfully luscious, velvety texture. Learn about different types of pastels and techniques, while we briefly review composition, perspective, and color theory.

Skill Level: All Levels

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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

Course Description:

Participate in a lively, interactive working environment. Develop paintings to a more finished, resolved statement, or address those challenges that impede forward movement. We will address skill development, use of materials, stylistic choices, personal imagery, and aesthetic content. Be prepared to work in the medium of your choice in the first class.

Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced

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Course Description:

Learn the basics of screen printing on textiles, from photo exposure to squeegee, to ink and fabric selection. Come away with personalized clothing or fabric to turn into something new.

Skill Level: Beginner