Course Description:
Participants must have previously completed one EAC painting or drawing class. Figure Studio offers participants the opportunity to work in their choice of media and study the nude. Poses range from one to thirty minutes. Instruction is not included; a classroom monitor will lead the class.
Skill Level: All Levels
Monitor: Samantha Younis
Course Description:
Create landscape paintings in the studio using photos as a starting point. Learn to express your love of nature in paint, utilizing color, composition, and creative mark-making. Great paintings of the past (& present) will be referenced to inspire you to move beyond simply copying the information in photos, and help you find your voice as an artist.
This class is suitable for oil, acrylic, and pastel.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Create both vibrant and subdued paintings with strong compositions using watercolor tubes and watercolor pencils. Instruction includes watercolor techniques- applying watercolor washes, painting wet in wet, and painting without a sketch. Learn about staining and lightfast colors. The instructor will provide a variety of still-lifes. We will have individual and group critiques to receive supportive responses from classmates.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Bring richness, color and depth to your paintings. Using a limited palette inspired by color theory, implement techniques such as layering, optical mixture, broken brushstroke and glazing to create complex, expressive color. Learn about materials and techniques in the medium of your choice including: gouache, acrylic, and oil while constructing paintings with a variety of subject matter, highlighting composition, color, gesture, and line. This class is recommended for students who have previous experience in the fundamentals of painting.
Course Description:
Culminating in a six hour pose, this course is designed to train artists in concepts and exercises essential to building powerful portraits in oil.
Artists will learn the fine points of portraiture from anatomy and structure to paint handling and more. Guided with demonstrations and instruction at the easel students will become well versed in drills and portrait principles that will inform and improve their studio work for years to come.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Individual coaching with your particular drawing and or painting practice. Painting students will be encouraged to draw with the brush in full color. Each class begins with a half-hour of short drawing poses followed by one long pose which extends over 2 or 3 weeks.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Course Description:
This course offers a strong introduction to painting in which students learn about color mixing, painting techniques, and composition. Each student receives one-on-one instruction and everyone is encouraged to develop personal themes. The focus of the class is exclusively Acrylics. Students will learn the specifics of this very rich technique, which can equal the wonders of oil when well-mastered.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
This course introduces a line-based method of observation to express structure, proportion, and relationships using intentional line work. Through guided observation exercises and simple line practice rooted in traditional Chinese art methodology, students develop line sensitivity, control, and the ability to construct form with clarity and intention.
