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  • Enriching Experience With Acrylic Medium
  • Fee: $75.00
    Item Number: SP25VA4151
    Dates: 3/7/2025 - 5/23/2025
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 10
    Building: Main Building
    Room: 116
    Instructor: Judy Jaworski
    REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.

    Students will be made aware of composition, balance of light and shadow, and develop their own style and expertise using acrylic. They will use a personal photo to guide them. *Please Note: This course has required supplies.

    Required Supplies:

    - Large tube: Titanium White 2.5 oz

    - Tubes of Cadmium Yellow, Yellow Ochre or Oxide, Naples Yellow, Cadmium Red, Light Alizarian Crimson, Cerulean Blue, Ultra Marine Blue, Chromoxide Green, Hookers Green, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, and Paynes Gray

    - Brushes - synthethic Taklon: 1" bright, 1/2" bright, #4 round sable for details

    - Palette knife with bent blade for mixing, 9"x 12 (Masterson's) palette with cover

    - Palette sheets and sponge

    - Acrylic matte medium and gloss medium to mix in covered container and water container

    - Wiping cloth or paper towel, wooden or metal table easel, stretched canvas or canvas board, photographs as reference to paint

    *A 10% discount may be available at art stores (except WalMart/Ocean State Job Lot). You can check for the discount by speaking with an associate and letting them know that you're taking the course with Judy Jaworski. Make sure to provide the supplies list. If there's no discount, then the store policy prevails.

 

  • Fundamentals of Drawing
  • Fee: $56.00
    Item Number: SP25VA4561
    Dates: 3/7/2025 - 5/23/2025
    Times: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 10
    Building: Main Building
    Room: 102
    Instructor: Thelma Appel
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    This course will teach you about basic perspective, the relationships of objects to each other, how to energize a drawing by use of light and dark dynamics, how to explore different drawing instruments to achieve various effects, how to best express volume, and how to work with outlines alone. *Please Note: This course has required supplies.

    Required Supplies:

    - 4b and 6b pencils, single blade pencil sharpener, soft dark charcoal and vine charcoal, several soft erasers, charcoal blenders or Q tips, and a fine tip sharpie pen.

    - Sand paper for cleaning erasers, soft rag, medium filbert brush (soft, pointy tip), black ink, and watercolor brushes (thick and fine).

    - A large drawing pad with thick enough paper to accommodate ink wash without crumpling.

 

  • Mandalas and More as Art and Personal Relaxation
  • Fee: $56.00
    Item Number: SP25VA4321
    Dates: 3/7/2025 - 5/23/2025
    Times: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 10
    Building: Main Building
    Room: 102
    Instructor: Rose-Ann Chrzanowski
    REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.

    We will explore different mediums to create art in the form of mandalas or anything you would like. No artistic ability is needed. Just come and explore the options and discover your own creativity!

 

  • Some of My Students’ Favorite Operas
  • Fee: $75.00
    Item Number: SP25VA4081
    Dates: 3/7/2025 - 5/23/2025
    Times: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 10
    Building: Main Building
    Room: 326
    Instructor: Nunzio DeFilippis
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    Come watch favorite operas like: (Bel Canto) La Sonnambula by Bellini; (Romanticism) Manon by Massenet, The Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, and La Traviata by Verdi; (Operas in Transition) La Boheme by Puccini; (Verismo) Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni and Pagliacci by Leoncavallo.

 

  • The Art In Painting: Learning To See - A Workshop
  • Fee: $66.00
    Item Number: SP25VA4611
    Dates: 3/7/2025 - 5/23/2025
    Times: 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 10
    Building: Main Building
    Room: 102
    Instructor: Thelma Appel
    REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.

    We'll review the basics of organizing pictorial space to help us master painting in acrylics or oils by mixing primary colors and diluting them with white to contrast loud and muted values. We'll use still-life models/photos and study Old Master paintings for reference to create a dynamic work of art. *Please Note: This course has required supplies.

    Required Supplies:

    Acrylic paints: large tube of titanium white, burnt umber, lamp black, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, cadmium yellow, cadmium red light, alizarin crimson, thalo green, sap green, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, ultramarine blue, and acrylic matt or gloss medium.

    Brushes: Narrow and wide chisel shaped brushes, medium round filbert brush, pointed edge filbert, medium fan shaped brush, and large soft brush for washes (such as laying out large basic shapes or a whole area).

    Canvases: 10"X16" or preferably larger; tabletop or floor easel and mixing pallets such as: plastic egg cartons, trays, etc. Also, a soft rag and plastic cup for water.

    Retailers: Michaels Arts & Crafts, Hulls New Haven, Ocean State Job Lot, Amazon (www.amazon.com/artsupplies).

 

  • Zentangle Inspired Art
  • Fee: $75.00
    Item Number: SP25VA4801
    Dates: 3/7/2025 - 5/23/2025
    Times: 1:45 PM - 3:45 PM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 10
    Building: Main Building
    Room: 210
    Instructor: Debbie Mitchell
    REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.

    Have fun using the Zentangle method of drawing to create many different pieces of art (no experience is required)! Create a lacy moon or star with white pen on black paper, Zen buttons, landscapes, and more! This method can be relaxing and fun. *Please Note: This course has recommended supplies.

    Recommended Supplies:

    - Black fine tip felt marker, Sharpie or recommended: Sakura Micron, 03

    - Pencil

    - White Sakura Gelly Pen 08

    - Multi-Media Weight Drawing Pad or Paper, Any size to accommodate drawing a 4 x 4 square

    - Blending Stump or similar tool for smudging pencil graphite (find at a craft store (Michaels, JoAnn) or use Q-Tips

 

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