Arcana in Acrylics: Painting the Tarot Session A
Painting the Tarot explores the age-old art of tarot card design through acrylic painting. Students will reimagine a card of their choice — either from their own deck or the instructor’s—interpreting its symbolism through color, form, and personal expression. The instructor offers a relaxed, supportive teaching style with fun and constructive group critiques.
Arcana in Acrylics: Painting the Tarot Session B
Painting the Tarot explores the age-old art of tarot card design through acrylic painting. Students will reimagine a card of their choice — either from their own deck or the instructor’s—interpreting its symbolism through color, form, and personal expression. The instructor offers a relaxed, supportive teaching style with fun and constructive group critiques.
Art & Literature Series: The Magical World of Harry Potter
Discover the enchanting, wizarding world of Harry Potter in this exciting new children’s art/literature series! Little wizards will be able to use the first book “The Sorcerer's Stone” as a springboard for their own magical and creative works. We will explore themes of Harry’s fantastical adventures through creating art in a wide range of mixed media materials, including; clay, sculpture, canvas, painting, drawing, printmaking, fabrics, and even found and natural objects. Children will be able to interpret the story with projects such as; 3-D Hogwarts castles, enchanted forests filled with mythical creatures, dioramas, clay character figures such as messenger owls, cats, flying dragons, and perhaps some “chocolate frogs”. We will also have opportunities to create our own personal wands, house banners, Quidditch game pieces, an “invisibility cloak”, castle map and even study potion-making with natural dyes.
Beginning Oil Painting
Whether you’re picking up a brush for the first time or returning after a long break, this 10-week course is designed to give you a solid foundation in oil painting.We will move at a measured pace and follow a detailed lesson plan so students know what to expect in each session. Instructor will provide hands-on direction, plus lots of encouraging feedback.
Contemporary Watercolor – Follow the Leader
Create fresh, inspired watercolor paintings. Nuanced color, compositional lights, and calligraphic marks add unique style. Watercolor is a process, step-by-step, light to dark, big to small. Sable (mink) brushes for transparent washes and Japanese natural-hair brushes, to draw and color layers, add to the luxury of the experience. Learn the mechanics and proceed to spirited paintings of our flower still life or documenting your travels, environment, and memorable events. Please note: no class 10/13
Contemporary Painting – Aesthetic Decisions
Contemporary art for-all-levels is about the joy of painting in acrylic or oils. We start “alla prima” by filling the canvas expressively. New skills, new color combinations, new style and composition bring charm and presence to your painting. Explore narrative, realism, and abstracting, as you paint from your images or the provided still-life. Warm-up exercises build skills. With the help of a teacher guide, you can consider and manipulate areas and learn to make choices that will reward you.
Instructor will review necessary supplies in first class, including the 5 brushes; only materials required initially are paper and 4 colors of paint. Print phone photos of your travel, friends, events, and experiences to use for painting inspiration. Please note: no class 10/13
Luminous Worlds: Exploring Light and Space in Painting
Light is the great organizer of painting space. Through light and shadow, brilliant areas or
quietly whispered areas, space and depth come to life on the canvas. Whether you are working
abstractly or from representation, let's work together to develop the power of your work, pushing
the emphasis on important areas of interest while letting other areas subside into zones of quiet.
Come to the first class with your image, real or abstract or imaged, and learn to expand its
potential, allowing distortions, dramatic evolution of palette, and expressive brush strokes and
paint application in order to create a bigger more luminous picture. Prior painting experience is
highly recommended. Students will work independently with supportive individual and group
critiques if desired, plus occasional discussions about art history. Bring your own painting
supplies, working in oil or acrylics or mixed media.
Under The Sea: Mixed Media Crafts 6/23-27 Week 1
Dive into creativity in this fun, hands-on art class! Kids will explore painting, collage, and other mixed media techniques to create vibrant underwater scenes filled with colorful sea creatures and ocean landscapes. Perfect for young artists who love to imagine and explore!
Painting, Drawing & More 8/4-8 Week 7
In this class we will be making lots of different projects – sculpture, paintings, drawings, a mobile. We’ll also be using many different materials – scratch-off paper, markers, both watercolor and acrylic paints, colored pencils and more! Come and join us for this fun and imaginative class.
Mini Masterpieces: An Artist a Day 7/21-25 Week 5
Students will discover a new master artist each day and explore their unique style through hands-on mixed media projects. From painting to collage, students will experiment with different techniques while learning art history!
