Arts - Visual & Performing   

Explore the beauty of flowers using watercolors. We will paint unique and stunning flowers each week, using the delicate and sensitive media of watercolor painting. Each session students will paint gorgeous flowers, some exotic, some more common, but all beautiful. Students should have a basic understanding of watercolor painting, including materials, and application techniques.

Be the next Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants), Chris Giarrusso (G-Man), or Stan Lee (X-Men) in your neighborhood! In this immersive class, students will work with Arizona Cartoonist Jan Marc “The Janimal” Quisumbing in creating their own characters and comic books. Learn about story structure, and character design. All drawing skills and writing skills welcome. Bring your own supplies or follow along with the course syllabus. Class will be taught traditionally without the aid of computers.

Learn the basics of digital photography including how to photograph landscapes, wildlife, people, and more.  Instruction on the functions of a camera and how to use different settings to create great photos. Photos will be edited and set up to share in different formats.  Students will be required to bring their own digital camera. Participants will be asked to subscribe to the Lightroom app for this class. 

Begin your drawing journey here. This course will take you through the process of drawing. Building forms, using shapes, shadows, and highlights. We will use various drawing media, from pencils, chalk, and ink.  Students purchase their own materials for approximately $40.

In Watercolor Landscape Painting with Art Gecko, students will become familiar with basic materials and equipment, understand basic watercolor techniques, execute key topics into basic landscape designs, find joy in painting, and share knowledge with one another. Each week will bring a new lesson as students learn increasingly advanced techniques, building on previous lessons, including the use of mixed media, pens, pencils, etc. The class will also go over washes, glazing and layering, lifting, using frisket, and more. Students will learn about the materials, including brushes, brush care, paper, paints, (tubes vs. pans), color choices, and wet/dry techniques. The class will discuss composition as well as what makes a piece compelling, and what makes a piece boring. The class will do sketching, focusing on composition, and values to create a foundation for a great painting. See why students find classes with Art Gecko fun and informative. 

Students purchase their own materials. A supply list will be provided upon registration.