The Arts   

Explore the craft of voiceovers! Discover current trends, opportunities, and tools to succeed in this growing remote working industry. Read an actual script and receive coaching from your instructor, a professional voice actor, to improve your delivery. You’ll receive a professional voiceover evaluation later in a follow-up call. This is a one-time, 90-minute introductory class.  Learn more at www.voicesforall.com/ooo. For students 18 and over. Upon registration you will be contacted by VFA to schedule your class for a day and time of your convenience. 
Requirements: Students must have internet access and video chatting capabilities using a method such as: Zoom, Skype (Win/Mac/Mobile), or iChat/FaceTime (Mac/iOS).

Drawing is the fundamental basis of all visual art and can provide a lifetime of enjoyment. You’ll significantly increase your imagination, creativity, and perception through the practice of drawing! In this class, you’ll learn the fundamentals of drawing: 3-dimensionality, light, shadow, proportions, details, and perspective. You’ll learn to draw many subjects, including animals, nature, people, and still lives. You’ll be surprised how quickly your skills will develop, by observing and drawing 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 significantly increase your ability to represent the world around you! See the Supply List for the necessary items.

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 be learning the techniques of Acrylic Painting: blending, texturizing, brush handling, detailing, stippling, dabbing, glazing, wet in wet, dry brushing, etc! You’ll also learn about color mixing, complementary colors, warm and cool, hue, value, and intensity and proportions! You will be surprised how quickly your skills will 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 greatly increase your ability to paint the world around you! See the Supply List for necessary items. 

Delve into photography and explore new techniques! Approach the "everyday" through a creative focus. Discover new perspectives and compositional approaches to creating artistic photographs. This is accomplished through learning exposure, lighting, and editing. There will be lectures, examples, and weekly assignments. The instructor will critique assignments, and help students grow in their knowledge of photography. Some topics covered include: color, black & white, vacation & travel, and composition.