Advancing in Watercolor: Birds in Winter

Discover the art of painting fun-loving holiday birds adorned with hats, scarves, and a touch of personality. We’ll use various watercolor techniques to create one-of-a-kind, vibrant birds. Unleash your creativity and make something truly original. Join our easy-to-follow watercolor painting class for beginners and advancing artists.

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Advancing in Watercolor: Holiday Cards

Let’s create lasting memories with festive watercolor paintings. We’ll be creating simple yet charming designs perfect for quick and personalized holiday cards. Follow along with easy step-by-step instructions to bring beautiful scenes to life. These mini paintings can be used for cards, gifts, or even as tree decorations. Gather your friends, paint together, and cherish…

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Drawing for Watercolor Painting

Join artist Leo Kahl for a fun, one day deep dive into well-planned drawing for your watercolor painting. You will learn the techniques needed to draw your composition onto proper watercolor paper. Class topics will include: Simplification of reference photos Drawing on location Developing compositions based on background, middle-ground, foreground and focal area. Inferring and…

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Wet Felted Wool Holiday Tree

Join Sharon Davis to create a wet felted wool holiday tree. In this beginner, 3-hour workshop, you will craft a tree to place into an heirloom or favorite candle holder that can be removed after the holidays. It’s stuffed with all natural kapok fiber and may be decorated at home with lights, buttons, stitching or…

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Color Theory Application

A pre-requisite for this class is “Color Theory” or a basic knowledge of color, hue, value, temperature, complement, etc… To gain a better understanding of how to use color theory for painting, we will be learning how to make/mix many colors and we will paint small compositions to combine colors for very specific results. (No…

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Winter Wonderland Collage

Students will create a winter themed collage using old papers and books, stencils, acrylic ink and acrylic paint.  This collage class is suitable for beginners or advanced artists.   Please wear old clothes or an apron.  The instructor will provide old papers for the background and will bring stencils to share and acrylic ink.

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Basic Drawing

Explore the basic fundamentals of drawing: contour line, composition, perspective and shading. Drawing is the foundation, the “bare bones” upon which the artist bases all other elements of art. Discover the artist within you that is simply waiting to be unleashed in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere.

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Bead Embroidery: Starlight Earrings or Petite Pendants

Gorgeous crystals are at the center of these sparkling bead embroidered earrings stitched with gold or silver seed beads. If students prefer, this design may be used to make petite pendants to hang on their own chains. Perfect to use as a gift for someone special (or for yourself), this design was created for those…

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Advancing in Watercolor: Fall Themes

Experience the beauty of autumn with a variety of vibrant hues waiting to be explored through watercolor painting. Dive into creating stunning landscapes using techniques like wet into wet, glazing, dry brush, splattering, and more.  Feel free to bring your own photos of a favorite scene for a personal touch, although reference photos will be…

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