Try Your Hand At Painting & Drawing Workshop: Session B
This workshop is geared towards the absolute adult beginner to come learn the basics of painting and drawing in a supportive, judgement-free session. Spend the morning in the GAC studios and learn about basic techniques, materials and approaches to working creatively in two dimensions. Come discover your creative potential.
Try Your Hand At Painting & Drawing Workshop: Session A
This workshop is geared towards the absolute adult beginner to come learn the basics of painting and drawing in a supportive, judgement-free session. Spend the morning in the GAC studios and learn about basic techniques, materials and approaches to working creatively in two dimensions. Come discover your creative potential.
Pastels Workshop
What better time to work in pastels than in the spring? It’s an organic and colorful time to work in a gentle style. Working in pastels can almost feel like “soft painting,” and blending colors smoothly and quickly gives you a chance to really develop a great sense of mood. There is a sense of […]
Painting Or Drawing The Portrait
Become more confident as a portraitist and capture the personality of your subject in your art. Students already confident in a medium other than graphite pencil (e.g. oil, acrylic, pastels, etc.) should feel free to bring them to class. Otherwise, prepare to draw with pencil and bring a 9 x12 sketch pad, a few soft […]
Paint from Your Experiences and Snapshots
Contemporary art brings life experience to image-making. Spring means fresh yellow-greens in a bright outdoorsy landscape. This for-all-levels class is just the thing: painting, layout and composition, and problem solving. And if you’re in the mood to learn new skills and color mixing, there’s a contemporary colorful still life set-up. Explore new styles in realism, […]
No Fear Painting
No Fear Painting is a dynamic, hands-on course designed to unlock your creative potential through playful experimentation. This series of classes invites you to discover new ways to express yourself using painting, mixed media, and collage. Explore bold color choices, develop new techniques, and simplify the essence of your subject matter through the use of […]
Light & Mood In Painting
Let’s take our inspiration from the dramatically evolving world around us to push our painting towards more dynamic expression. Come to the first class with an image you are interested in taking to the next level, whether abstract or guided by real or imagined landscapes. Shoreline images can become crashing rocks a walk at dusk […]
Investigating Color in Watercolor Painting
Students will start with a basic overview of color theory for painters, then proceed to paint from either your choice of Still Life set up or photo reference in the studio. We will explore soothing and dynamic color choices and ways to get rich saturated colors without creating “mud.” This class is for anyone painting […]
Friday Night: Relax & Create
These evening sessions are designed to de-stress and tune into your inner creativity. Emphasis will be on exploration and relaxing into the art process through guided art projects. Experiment with a variety of materials and techniques that you might have always wanted to try such as acrylic and watercolor painting, mixed media collage with mulberry […]
Follow the Leader Watercolor
A classical way to learn watercolor is as a step-by-step process, light to dark, big areas to small. Learn to mix fresh unusual color, compose while holding onto white spaces, and make brush marks to enhance lively calligraphic qualities. Big sable (mink) brushes to make washes of color, and Japanese natural-hair brushes add to the […]
