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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. 

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Learn how to use today’s free AI tools to make budgeting simpler, clearer, and less stressful. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll practice using AI to build a realistic personal budget and translate financial jargon into plain language—no math or technical background required. Using free versions of tools like Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT, you’ll see practical ways AI can help you identify and categorize your spending, explain your bills, and navigate complex financial websites. A strong focus is placed on safety and privacy, including what not to share, how to redact documents easily, and how to avoid bad deals and misinformation.
 

“We’re all going to die, and we don’t know when,” says Rev. Bodhi Be, a mentor of the instructor and director of a non profit funeral home in Hawaii. Given that important and poignant truth, there are many things we can do to prepare ourselves and save our loved ones time and stress. In this class, we will explore legal documentation, practical considerations, relational networks, wishes for your memorial and your body’s disposition, and much more. All of this information is valuable to anyone regardless of age or state of health. Each class session has built-in time after the presentation for questions and deeper discussion. The instructor will follow up with a checklist and a document with extensive resources to help you complete and maintain your end-of-life preparations.
 

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Have you ever wanted to draw in color? Colored pencils and oil pastels are wonderful media that combine the detail you can get in drawing with the vibrant colors available in painting. In this class, learn the basic skills of colored pencils and oil pastels, and apply them to create beautiful, finished drawings. By developing skills and techniques with colored pencils and oil pastels, you can add a whole new dimension to your art exploration. They are easy to use and portable, and you can easily find sets with a broad and exciting variety of colors. Colored pencils and oil pastels allow you to capture the vibrancy, detail, and colors in your subjects whenever and wherever you wish. 

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You will explore the highly expressive and versatile media of pen and marker in this fascinating class. Discover the bold, detailed mark-making of pen and ink, combined with the expressive color of marker. In this class, we will be learning both of these media and how to combine them to create beautiful, expressive works of art!

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In Drawing 2, you’ll continue to use your imagination, creativity, and perception through the practice of drawing. In this class, you’ll continue to learn more of the fundamentals of drawing: 3-dimensionality, light, shadow, proportions, details, and perspective. You’ll learn how to draw even more subjects, including nature, people, still lives, and animals.  You’ll be surprised at how quickly your skills develop as you observe and draw 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 creativity and your ability to represent the world around you. Drawing 2 is the sequel to Drawing 1, and you'll get a chance to learn a variety of additional drawing skills and subjects beyond what you learned in Drawing 1. Additionally, there will be a section on colored pencils in Drawing 2. 
 

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Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw people, characters, and portraits? Learn all of this and more in this fascinating, beginner-friendly class! In this interactive, hands-on class, you'll learn all about drawing a wide variety of action poses, gestures, facial expressions, clothes, facial features, hands, value, proportions, contrast, shading, and detail. You will expand your horizons with the fascinating subject of drawing people, and bring home a variety of intriguing drawings as well.
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Woodwinds, brass, and percussion musicians of all levels are welcome! The Edmonds College Concert Band offers a large ensemble experience for instrumentalists and provides South Snohomish County with a local concert band. Members of the community are invited to join. The band will meet for rehearsals and one performance each quarter. Enrollment for this class remains open until Oct. 16th.
 

Continue your Excel journey in the second class of the series and enhance your comfort level when working with data. This class will teach you how to work with several functions, sort and filter data, apply conditional formatting, and start working with PivotTables. 
Prerequisite: Excel I or working knowledge of topics covered in Excel I.
Required: Access to MS Office Excel for Windows (versions 2024 or 365).
 

In Excel III, we will work with more functions, including nesting functions, utilizing data validation, creating VLOOKUPs & XLOOKUPS, and diving deeper into Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts.
Prerequisites: Excel I & Excel II, or working knowledge of topics covered in both classes.
Required: Access to MS Office Excel for Windows (versions 2024 or 365).
 

Feel like something is missing in your photography? Explore photography by learning to visualize a photograph and then create it through lighting, composition, and exposure. This class focuses on discovering new ways of seeing and an artistic approach to composition. Discover the steps beyond basic composition and exposure to create artistic photographs. There will be lectures, examples, and weekly assignments. The instructor will critique assignments and help students grow their photography knowledge. Some topics covered will be fall color, creative use of light, and composition.

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If you love reading short stories and want to write them, this class is for you. We'll examine jaw-dropping short stories and what makes them tick. We'll try writing our own short fictional stories, learning idea-generation techniques, experimental story formats, and revision tips to make your stories gleam. Then, we'll learn how to get published. Students will leave this class with at least three new short story ideas, a cover letter for submitting stories to publishers, and a critique of a story up to 5,000 words from the instructor, author G.G. Silverman.

Supplies: Have either a notebook and a pen OR a laptop/tablet with writing software.

Explore the principles of permaculture and discover how to apply sustainable, regenerative design to a garden or other outdoor space. In this two-hour introductory class, participants will learn how to facilitate healthy, low-maintenance ecosystems that work in harmony with nature. Whether you have a small garden, a large yard, or a community space, this class will provide you with a solid starting point for making any green space more productive, resilient, and environmentally friendly. No prior experience is required—anyone with an interest in gardening is welcome. 
Suggested supplies: a notebook or paper, and a pencil with eraser.  
 

A learn-to-play course that will take time to teach the rules and concepts of the role-playing game (RPG) Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), with an opportunity to play an introductory adventure then. No materials are needed, as character sheets, basic rules, and other gaming needs will be available for use.
 

Expand your horizons in the beginner-friendly class with the amazing painting medium: gouache! Gouache is opaque watercolor, an amazingly versatile medium with rich, vibrant colors. Gouache is opaque like acrylics and oils (so you can easily paint over previous layers), yet it can be blended after it dries like watercolors. It is also a very portable medium for travel painting, etc. This makes gouache one of the most adaptable and user-friendly painting media. In this class, you'll learn the basics of gouache painting, including color mixing, blending, contrast, values, details, brush handling, and how to apply them to a variety of painting subjects. Expand your artistic abilities in this interactive, hands-on-class, and bring home some beautiful paintings in a new medium that you can enjoy for years to come!

Supply List - Mixed Media: Featuring the Amazing Opaque Watercolor, Gouache!

Fundraising is most effective when it is built on genuine connection rather than a simple exchange of funds. Instead of viewing donors as mere funding sources, this session equips you to view them as vital partners in your mission. You will explore how long-term donor engagement built on radical trust, shared values, and consistent, meaningful communication creates a resilient foundation for your organization’s future. Through real-world case studies and practical exercises, you will discover how to move past the anxiety of "the ask" and step into authentic partnership building.
 

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It's never too late to develop your foreign language skills! Impress your friends and colleagues by developing your conversational ability in real-life situations in your community or while traveling. Study basic pronunciation and grammatical structure in a nurturing, interactive environment. 
Recommended for people who have never taken Spanish. 
Required Book: “Spanish for Mastery 1, Que tal?” by VALETTE & VALETTE, ISBN: 0-669-31311-4.
 

Living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, one can be inspired by our amazing environment on a daily basis. In this class, you'll learn how to draw and paint the fascinating world of nature, scenery, and the environment, with pencil, pen, and watercolor, in this exciting new class. 

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This class takes travel sketching to the next level, and explores a fascinating variety of urban scenes from around the world! In this class, you'll learn how to draw and paint the intriguing world of cities, towns, and urban scenes, in pencil, pen, and watercolor.
Note: participation in the Travel Sketching 1 class is not required in order to enroll in this class.
 

Supply List - Travel Sketching 2:  Sketching Urban Scenes in Pencil, Pen, and Watercolors

Love Italian wine but don't know where to start? Italy has thousands of unique grapes, making it the most exciting—and sometimes confusing—place for wine. We’re stripping away the mystery. Explore the essentials of Italian wine, from the volcanic soils of the South to the misty mountains of the North. You'll leave ready to order your next bottle with total confidence. 

Students must be 21 years of age to attend the class. The price includes a $30 food-and-wine fee. 

Designed for writers holding powerful memories but struggling to structure them, this workshop teaches you how to transform personal recollections into compelling memoir narratives. You will explore the craft of scene-building, dialogue, and emotional arcs while learning to distinguish between scene and summary. By anchoring your memories in rich sensory details, you will gain the practical tools needed to create deep emotional resonance and shape your personal experiences into stories that truly captivate readers.
 

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1243 or email comed@edmonds.edu to register.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1243 or email comed@edmonds.edu to register.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1243 or email comed@edmonds.edu to register.

CLASS CANCELLED

Please contact us with any questions.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1243 or email comed@edmonds.edu to register.

CLASS CANCELLED

Please contact us with any questions.

CLASS CANCELLED

Please contact us with any questions.

CLASS CANCELLED

Please contact us with any questions.

CLASS CANCELLED

Please contact us with any questions.

CLASS CANCELLED

Please contact us with any questions.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1243 or email comed@edmonds.edu to register.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1243 or email comed@edmonds.edu to register.