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ONSITE: Master Drawing Workshop: Bargue Drawing Skills (Ages 15–18)

April 18, 2023

In this weekend course we will learn all about accurately judging proportion and achieving likeness. We will copy the master drawings of 19th Century artist Charles Bargue, who created a drawing course that was popular in the ateliers and academies in Europe during that century. This knowledge is no longer off limits to women and […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Polka Dot Flowers Inspired by Yayoi Kusama

April 18, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Come make art inspired by flowers and the incredible artist Yayoi Kusama! We will make drawings of flowers from observation, look at Yayoi Kusama's dot and flower paintings, and then make […]

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (K)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (L)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (I)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (J)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (H)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (G)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (E)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (C)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (D)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (F)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (B)

April 12, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Figure Drawing (A)

April 11, 2023

These drawing sessions are open to anyone interested in drawing from a live figure model. A studio monitor guides the model and overall experience, but drawing instruction is not provided.

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ONSITE: Acrylic + Water Media Workshop

April 11, 2023

Designed for intermediate and advanced painters, this one-day course covers solutions for working with a variety of water-based paint, including color theory, brushwork, and mixed-media possibilities. Come away with a deeper understanding of this medium, its expressive possibilities, and the tools for integrating it into your creative life.

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ONSITE: Painting with Pastels on Sanded Paper

April 11, 2023

Learn more effective strategies to develop your soft pastel landscape painting (visual and color composition). Application, color mixing and blending methods for layering pastels will be reviewed. The practice of these methods will be enhanced on sanded and prepared papers with pastel for a wet-on-dry layering technique. The sanded paper surface allow pastels more "room" […]

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ONSITE: Introduction to the Figure

April 11, 2023

Conducting figure studies can improve your representation of the human body, as well as the way it interacts with light. We’ll use various media, including graphite, charcoal, sanguine and conte chalk, as we work through a series of quick-gesture and long-pose drawings. Enjoy demonstrations and discussions about anatomy and drawing techniques.

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ONSITE: Introduction to Oil Painting

April 11, 2023

Learn the fundamentals of oil painting through exercises including still life. We'll get acquainted with materials, learn how to use them, and get a brief introduction to color theory as it applies to oil paint.

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ONSITE: The Noir Portrait: Drawing with Charcoal

April 11, 2023

Learn how to make realistic portraits using the beautiful, painterly medium of charcoal on toned paper. This class teaches traditional academic concepts, but in an encouraging open environment conducive to learning. In this class, we will examine how to successfully represent form and capture a likeness from life. This class teaches Realist techniques that were […]

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ONSITE: Intermediate Drawing: Drawing from Nature

April 11, 2023

If you've taken multiple beginner drawing classes or have experience with drawing in the recent past, this class may be a great opportunity for you to "get back in there!" This class will allow opportunities for you to experiment and recover your mark-making style and apply it to various subject areas with different dry media. […]

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ONSITE: Cast Drawing

April 11, 2023

Cast drawing is a traditional method of teaching drawing that was popularized in the 19th Century. Students will draw from casts of sculptures and learn materials handling, methods to master proportions, and techniques for depicting form using line and shading. The main objective of the course is to teach students how to see in a […]

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ONSITE: Encaustic Painting Workshop (B)

April 11, 2023

Explore encaustic painting for the first time or return to expand your skills. You will work with opaque and transparent colors, layering, using stencils and creating patterns using hot wax. 

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ONSITE: Painting with Gouache: Opaque Watercolor

April 11, 2023

Learn how to use gouache paint as we create works from observation. Gouache is an opaque, flat, color medium with beautiful possibilities. We'll start with a one-subject painting from observation and then move through projects with a variety of subjects like still-lifes with fruits and vegetables, flowers and botanicals, interiors and furniture, and outdoor landscapes. […]

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ONSITE: Encaustic Painting Workshop (A)

April 11, 2023

Explore encaustic painting for the first time or return to expand your skills. You will work with opaque and transparent colors, layering, using stencils and creating patterns using hot wax. 

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ONSITE: Acrylic Collage Workshop

April 11, 2023

Create paintings using collage techniques. We’ll begin by creating a series of small media experiments with acrylic paint. Then we’ll incorporate those experiments into a larger collage on panel.

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