Note: This event is sold out. Abstracting the Masters Instructor: Theresa Girard Medium: Mixed Media Level: Intermediate/Advanced Supply List Do you love abstract art but have trouble getting started? Do you love to discover more expression in your work? Through lectures, demonstrations and hands on coaching you will gradually make the shift to abstraction. Theresa…

DEMO: Fresh & Exciting Watercolors Instructor: David R. Smith Medium: Watercolor Level: All with experience Join David on a Watercolor Journey, learning the most valuable watercolor concepts and techniques. This workshop demo will save you countless hours of trial and error by demonstrating approaches in an easily understood manner that will open new doors of…

Fresh & Exciting Watercolors Instructor: David R. Smith Medium: Watercolor Level: All with experience Supply List Join David on a Watercolor Journey, learning the most valuable watercolor concepts and techniques. This workshop will save you countless hours of trial and error by demonstrating approaches in an easily understood manner that will open new doors of…

Colorful Portraits Instructor: Wooley Dutton Medium: Mixed Media Level: All with experience Supply List This workshop offers a wonderful journey discovering Wooley’s amazing effects in her portrait process. Take a painterly approach to portraits (of an individual or from your imagination) in this fun and informative class. Get familiar with different materials and new ways…

Note: This event is sold out. Color Workshop Instructor: Mary Parkman Medium: Acrylics Level: All with experience Supply List Join Mary Parkman for this 2-day program on color mixing. Learn to understand value, create color harmonies and how to mix and use color in your artwork. Discover the power of neutral palettes to create realistic…

Note: This event is sold out. Expressive Florals Instructor: Mary Parkman Medium: Acrylics Level: All with experience Supply List Photo Reference Florals are one of the most sought after painting styles for many designers. Mary Parkman starts this workshop with a variety of drawing exercises, stressing the simplification of shape, understanding of value and the…

Post Impressionism/Bay Area Figurative-inspired Landscape Instructor: Kirah Van Sickle Medium: Mixed Media Level: All with experience Supply List This 3-day intensive explores the key elements  to  color and abstraction through the lens of Post-Impressionists and Bay Area Figurative masters. Students will complete multiple still life and landscape studies finding inspiration from Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin…

DEMO: Abstract Painting & Mixed Media Techniques Instructor: Claudia Mengel Medium: Mixed Media “With every creation, there is a new discovery, a new problem, a new solution.” For artists with some experience in painting, we will focus on exploration using acrylic paints and various other mixed media materials. Examine the ins and outs of abstract…

Abstract Painting & Mixed Media Techniques Instructor: Claudia Mengel Medium: Mixed Media Level: All with experience Supply List “With every creation, there is a new discovery, a new problem, a new solution.” For artists with some experience in painting, we will focus on exploration using acrylic paints and various other mixed media materials. Examine the…

DEMO: Adding Impressionistic Figures to Tell a Story Instructor: Michele Byrne Medium: Oil/Acrylic Level: Intermediate/Advanced Michele will show you how to add natural looking figures to your paintings using palette knife and bold brush strokes. She will also teach you how to compose your paintings using strong design, value, temperature and paint manipulation.

DEMO: Painting Florida’s Tropical Landscape with Luminous Brilliance Instructor: Joel Popadics Medium: Watercolor Level: All with experience Discover the captivating art of watercolor and unlock your creativity with a unique twist. Learn to paint with light and capture the mesmerizing moods of Florida’s stunning landscape. Whether you’re an aspiring artist or a seasoned pro, immerse…

Batique Techniques Instructor: Muffy Clark Gill Medium: Fiber Level: All Supply List Interested in trying a new painting process but have been afraid to learn? This workshop will teach the batik (Indonesian style wax resist painting) and rozome (Japanese style batik) wax and dye painting processes to create unique artwork on fabric that can be…

Adding Impressionistic Figures to Tell a Story Instructor: Michele Byrne Medium: Oil/Acrylic Level: Intermediate/Advanced Michele will show you how to add natural looking figures to your paintings using palette knife and bold brush strokes. She will also teach you how to compose your paintings using strong design, value, temperature and paint manipulation. Daily demonstrations in…

Painting Florida’s Tropical Landscape with Luminous Brilliance Instructor: Joel Popadics Medium: Watercolor Level: All with experience Supply List Discover the captivating art of watercolor and unlock your creativity with a unique twist. Learn to paint with light and capture the mesmerizing moods of Florida’s stunning landscape in this four-day workshop led by renowned watercolorist Joel…

The Freedom of Acrylics Instructor: Jane Slivka Medium: Acrylics Level: All with experience Supply List In a casual, charismatic and user-friendly fashion, Jane challenges her students to complete two different paintings daily – from a whole host of subject matter – while teaching how to capture that same freedom, energy and spirit seen in her…

DEMO: Still Life with Glass & Bismarck Palms Instructor: Anne Abgott Medium: Watercolor Level: All with experience. Join Anne Abgott for this demonstration as she guides you through the painting of a still life with glass as well as amazing Bismarck Palms. In this demo she will explore how to use different pigments along with…

Still Life with Glass & Bismarck Palms Instructor: Anne Abgott Medium: Watercolor Level: All with experience Supply List Join Anne Abgott as she guides you through painting a still life with glass as well as amazing Bismarck Palms. In this workshop you will explore how to use different pigments along with the white of the…

Note: This event is sold out. Expressive Florals II Instructor: Mary Parkman Medium: Acrylics Level: Pre-requisite – Expressive Florals I Supply List Photo Reference Delve deeper into Expressive Florals with Mary Parkman. Florals offer a “foot hold in reality” as we allow our paintings to be more abstract. Focusing on color, abstract principles and expressive…

Note: This event is sold out. Rework! Instructor: Theresa Girard Medium: Acrylic / Mixed Media Level: All with experience in the Non-Objective. Prior classes with Theresa are helpful. Supply List Persistence is the name of the game in this 3-day instructional workshop! Revisit your old painting and find a simple and direct solution to bring…

Demo: Fixing Watercolors BEFORE and AFTER You Paint Instructor: Susan Blackwood Level: All with experience Medium: Watercolor “Watercolors are too hard”?! Through my 48 years of teaching watercolors…I have heard that comment a lot. Watercolors are not hard…. What is really hard is: Learning to let the watercolors react to each of your strokes. Giving…

Fixing Watercolors BEFORE and AFTER You Paint Instructor: Susan Blackwood Level: All with experience  Medium: Watercolor Supply List “Watercolors are too hard”?! Through my 48 years of teaching watercolors…I have heard that comment a lot.  Watercolors are not hard…. What is really hard is: Learning to let the watercolors react to each of your strokes.…

DEMO: An Abstract Approach to Painting Realistically Instructor: Howard Friedland Medium: Oil/Acrylic Level: Beginner to Advanced Artists see the world the same as everyone else! The difference is; in order to create a work of art, artists use certain methods and principles to depict their vision so they can communicate emotionally. For example: A painter…

An Abstract Approach to Painting Realistically Instructor: Howard Friedland Medium: Oil/Acrylic Level: Beginner to Advanced Supply List Artists see the world the same as everyone else! The difference is; in order to create a work of art, artists use certain methods and principles to depict their vision so they can communicate emotionally. For example: A…

DEMO: Loosening Up-A Path to Painterly Painting Instructor: Diane Pike Medium: Oil–Acrylics & Pastel welcome Level: All How many times have you looked at a finished piece and wished that the painting was looser and more painterly? It is easy to fixate on small details of what we are trying to paint instead of interpreting…

Loosening Up-A Path to Painterly Painting Instructor: Diane Pike Medium: Oil–Acrylics & Pastel welcome Level: All Supply List How many times have you looked at a finished piece and wished that the painting was looser and more painterly? It is easy to fixate on small details of what we are trying to paint instead of…

Cyanotype Instructor: Sue Lynch Medium: Printmaking Level: All SUPPLY LIST FORTHCOMING The cyanotype is one of the first forms of photography. The process, know as the blue print process, was first introduced by John Herschel in 1842. A year later, Anna Atkins, became the first person to photographically illustrate a book using cyanotypes.  We will…