The Arts   

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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.
 

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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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. 

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

 

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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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!

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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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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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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

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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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.

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