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Take your acrylic painting to the next level! Move into increasingly experimental stages, learning to expand your creativity and express yourself in a more intuitive style. Free your artistic self. Focus will be on the elements of design and color, line, and shape with demonstrations, tips and activities. Designed to meet the needs of those who already possess some acrylic experience, but all levels are welcome. 

Continue to improve camera skills, understand lenses, choose and select settings including how consistently create better and more interesting compositions. Students learn via hands on exercises, photo assignments, walkabouts, and critiques. Prerequisite: basic understanding of photography. Bring your camera, owner’s manual, 3-ring binder, pen or pencil and tripod if available. Not a Photoshop class.

If your photos don't look anything like what you intended, then this class is for you. By the end of class students should be able to start creating photographs that look like what was intended and be proud of. Students learn through hands-on exercises, photo assignments, and projected critiques. Suitable for all skill levels and any kind of camera. Bring your camera, owner’s manual, 3-ring binder, pen or pencil and tripod if available. Not a Photoshop class.

Medieval and Renaissance Italy was not a promising place for female artists. Women were expected to marry and have children. If they did work, they were not allowed to participate in male dominated professions such as painting, sculpturing and architectural design. Some women did emerge in the artistic community and were able to break the mold of subjugation. Explore their world and discover their accomplishments and artistic creations.

Experience the joys of watercolor in a positive atmosphere with the support and encouragement of fellow artists in this class. Explore your own projects, brush up on watercolor basics or learn some new and interesting techniques to add to your painting repertoire. Grow as an artist and creator. Be inspired and motivated by the creativity and talent of those around you.  Prerequisite: a foundation in watercolor.  Bring your favorite supplies. Any special supplies needed for class projects you wish to do will be discussed in class. 

This class is an introduction into art journals-part journal, part art collage, and part scrapbook. Art journaling is a visual diary; a place to record your thoughts, memories, and emotions through images, art and words. The number one rule about art journaling is that there are NO rules.

This mixed media class will give you the opportunity to be expressive, to put those creative juices to work and to develop your individual ideas without restriction as to your choice of paint, surface, materials, or concept. Learn how to use a Gelli Plate to make a variety of unique and gorgeous papers for collage. We will explore a variety of Golden mediums to enhance your artwork with textures, fiber pastes, and even glass beads. We will work with mat board, cardboard, card stock as well as traditional papers like watercolor paper and Bristol papers. Then we will put our learning into practice with several small projects, including enhancing your existing paintings by adding your homemade collage papers.

Anything you see, you can draw! This course is designed to be an introduction to the basic materials and technical properties of drawing with a focus on the formal qualities of drawing and its concepts. Projects include drawing from still life and natural forms. Develop observational skills, perceptual awareness, and expressive capabilities through the exploration of proportional relationships, linear perspective, and composition techniques.

 

Anything you see, you can draw! This course is designed to be an introduction to the basic materials and technical properties of drawing with a focus on the formal qualities of drawing and its concepts. Projects include drawing from still life and natural forms. Develop observational skills, perceptual awareness, and expressive capabilities through the exploration of proportional relationships, linear perspective, and composition techniques.

 

Stretch your imagination to see the beauty in your trash can! Lower your carbon footprint and get creative with post-consumer and less-toxic materials. From a combination of lecture, video, demonstration and hands on experience, students learn how to plan and create art from discarded materials that would otherwise be sent to the landfill. Also learn the difference between what is recyclable, reusable, and true trash.

Have you always wanted to learn the basics of watercolor? Learn step by step techniques such as color choices and mixing, creating texture with different brush strokes and glazing colors.  No prior painting experience required.

This class is designed for self-directed artists looking for a creative environment in which to receive coaching and encouragement in developing their art. Students facing design challenges can get technique demonstrations from the instructor. Each class ends with friendly critiques. Prerequisites: Ability to come up with painting ideas. Beginning watercolor skills. This class is not designed for absolute beginners.