Community Education Visual Arts: Painting   

Acrylic Painting is a fun, wonderful, versatile paint medium that can provide a lifetime of enjoyment! In this class, you will learn how to express yourself in this colorful medium. You’ll learn the techniques of acrylic painting, including blending, texturizing, brush handling, detailing, stippling, dabbing, glazing, wet-on-wet, and dry brushing. You’ll also learn about color mixing, complementary colors, warm and cool, hue, value, intensity, and proportions. You will be surprised at how quickly your skills improve by observing and painting along with step-by-step class presentations, which make it easy to understand and put these techniques into practice. Once you learn these skills, you’ll find them becoming second nature, and you’ll greatly increase your ability to paint the world around you.

Please see the supply list for necessary class materials. 

Enjoy combining the flowing beauty of watercolor, the vibrant color of colored pencil, and the detail of pen and ink into beautiful mixed-media works of art. This dynamic combination of media can help you create the most amazing pictures: we'll use watercolor for soft, flowing backgrounds, and the detail of colored pencil and pen for fur, feathers, foliage, lines, details, and more. Learn to get the most out of combining these wonderful media!

Please see the supply list for necessary class materials. 

In this class, you'll learn to draw and paint the intriguing World of Animals in pencil, pen, and watercolor. This class is for anyone who is fascinated by animal life and would like to learn more about drawing and painting animals. Possible subjects include: mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and more. You’ll also learn about form and function, anatomy, highlights, shadows, details, proportions, three-dimensionality, value, contrast, and color. These principles of drawing and painting will help you learn to depict animals in a variety of ways, and you'll learn to produce vibrant, exciting, realistic works of animal art in this exciting new class! 

Please see the supply list for necessary class materials. 

Acrylic Painting is a fun, wonderful, and versatile paint medium that can provide a lifetime of enjoyment. In Acrylic Painting 2, a sequel to Acrylic Painting 1, you will continue to learn how to express yourself in the colorful medium of acrylic painting. You will learn more acrylic painting techniques, in addition to painting a variety of new subjects. You’ll also learn more about blending, texturizing, brush handling, detailing, stippling, dabbing, glazing, wet-in-wet, dry brushing, color mixing, complementary colors, warm and cool, hue, value, intensity, and proportions. You will be surprised at how quickly your skills improve by observing and painting along with step-by-step class presentations, which make it easy to understand and put these techniques into practice. Once you learn these skills, you’ll find them becoming second nature, and you’ll significantly increase your ability to paint the world around you.

Please see the Supply List for the necessary class materials.