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:

Relax and have fun drawing structured patterns in a supportive class environment. Using step-by-step instructions, and easy-to-learn, repetitive strokes, we will explore patterns and how they function as a focal point, to fill space and/or to create balance, contrast and variety within a composition.

Skill Level: Intermediate

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

Course Description:

The Zentangle® Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Everyone, regardless of artistic skills, is invited to use repetitive strokes to draw delightful pieces of art. Each class will include the introduction of tangles, guided practice, and information about the Zentangle® Method. Only a few basic supplies are needed.

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

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Course Description:

Snip, tear and assemble your way through the expressive medium of collage. Create compositions using a variety of papers and techniques to gather images, shapes and colors. To inspire your work, themes such as quotes, poems, landscape and personal imagery will be shared.

Skill Level: All Levels

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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:

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:

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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