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Landscape in Oils

October 30, 2025

Create compelling landscapes in a series of paintings. Each week, we’ll focus on elements of the landscape including techniques for rendering sky, terrain, trees and water. We’ll also focus on palette development and color mixing. We'll cover seasonal themes and architecture while learning to use light and color to create depth. You'll practice layout and […]

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Encaustic Painting (A)

October 30, 2025

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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Flower Arranging + Painting Bouquets

October 30, 2025

Nothing quite like painting flowers in the winter to chase away the blues. In this class, you'll get to arrange flowers and then learn how to paint the bouquet! You will learn the basics of still life painting and how to arrange an alluring bouquet that represents your personality. Delve into the meanings of flowers […]

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Introduction to Acrylic Painting

October 30, 2025

In this acrylic painting class for all levels, you will learn the fundamentals of drawing and painting and discover your own style of painting as you advance through the class. We will learn how to paint in three dimensions, learn about color theory, facial anatomy and how to paint from life. More advanced students will […]

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Experimental Painting (Ages 6–8)

October 30, 2025

Paint it up! In this class we'll have a blast exploring all the possibilities of paint. You'll be challenged to use a variety of techniques, from the conventional to the more unusual. You'll have a chance to try out a range of materials, textures and surfaces from traditional canvas to something a little more unexpected.

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Understanding Color Through Oil Painting (Ages 15–18) (Limited Offering)

October 30, 2025

Develop an in-depth understanding of color theory using oil paint, one of the most time-honored art media in the western tradition. We’ll explore the theory and test it out through practical application. Knowledge of color theory is critical for artists working in any medium, so you’ll benefit from this class even if you’re not a […]

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Introduction to Oil Painting

October 30, 2025

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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Crash Course: Painting With Gouache (Adults and Youth 12+ with a Registered Adult)

October 17, 2025

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 sketchbook studies to 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 […]

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Watercolor for Beginners: Festive Doors – New! Adults (18+)

October 17, 2025

During this 3-hour workshop, you’ll select a front door style to use as your inspiration to draw from. We’ll use light boxes to assist in our drawings, so that our time can be focused on watercoloring and adding all of the festive holiday decor you desire to your door! These watercolors make great cards or […]

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Winter Landscapes in Gouache – New! Adults (18+)

October 17, 2025

Learn how to best use gouache, an opaque watercolor paint, to portray winter landscapes. Using photo reference, you will learn about composing, sketching, and the particular challenges that come from portraying winter weather. You will leave class with a finished gouache painting on paper that you can display or gift to a loved one.

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Figure Drawing (TH-H)

July 06, 2025

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

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Watercolor Pencil Tarot Workshop – New!

July 06, 2025

Learn simple yet beautiful watercolor pencil techniques while diving into tarot, learning about card meanings and symbols! Experiment with designing your own set of element symbols using pen and watercolor pencils.

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Learn Color Theory With Watercolors (B)

July 06, 2025

Get an introduction to the color wheel using watercolors. Learn color theory basics including warm and cool colors, primary colors, color triads, and complimentary colors. Students will use a limited number of paints to mix a broad spectrum of hues. After working through color mixing basics and a few demos on watercolor techniques, we will […]

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Figure Drawing (S-G)

July 06, 2025

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

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Learn Color Theory With Watercolors (A)

July 06, 2025

Get an introduction to the color wheel using watercolors. Learn color theory basics including warm and cool colors, primary colors, color triads, and complimentary colors. Students will use a limited number of paints to mix a broad spectrum of hues. After working through color mixing basics and a few demos on watercolor techniques, we will […]

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Encaustic Painting (A)

July 06, 2025

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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Drawing, Painting + Collage (Ages 6-8)

July 06, 2025

If you want to explore drawing and painting, this class will show you how! Discover a variety of media and techniques for drawing and painting before we end with a collage using everything we've explored.

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Figure Drawing (F-E)

July 06, 2025

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

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Figure Drawing (TH-F)

July 06, 2025

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

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Figure Drawing (TH-D)

July 06, 2025

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

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