All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Marni Maree

These are one-day workshops designed for students who want a time and place to paint. Students work on individual projects with as much critique, support and guidance from the instructor as wanted. All mediums are welcome. Bring your own supplies. You can choose to register for as many or as little of the below workshops as you like. All one-day workshop dates are listed below.

Fall Quarter: One Day

*New Date* Friday December 14, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $70
Location: W-3, 305

Beginner to Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Julia Malakoff

Energize your creativity by jumping into an 8-week artistic workout! Your artistic adventure will begin with boundless exploration as you seek to discover and develop your own unique artistic voice. We will stimulate our passions and invigorate our imaginations, initially relying primarily on intuition to guide the creative process. Each lesson will focus on different media and techniques. We will drip paints, rip papers, make marks, paint with our hands and loosen our minds as we play with color, line, shape and texture. The intuitive artistic process is fueled by both spontaneity and serendipity. It consists of layering paints, papers, patterns and textures, each step suggesting the next, in order to create a visual story. Through this process, you will learn how to create visual stories which are uniquely your own. We will then focus on how to finetune and enhance the impact of your work through the application of the traditional elements of composition. Each class will begin with a quick journal page warm-up, utilizing markers and watercolors, doodling and drawing to get your creativity flowing.  Lessons will end with a cool down, including a class critique, and reflections and reviews of the day’s lesson. Students will also be responsible for journaling their visual observations throughout the week using their cell phone camera or pen and pencil. These small captured moments will serve as inspiration for the next week’s lesson.

Winter Quarter: 8 weeks

Monday January 7, 10am–1pm

Tuition: $240, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Bill Firestone

Students will explore and grow upon any previous knowledge of landscape painting through the use of photograph, reference material and natural surroundings in this nine-week class. We will explore the challenge of showing pictorial space on a 2-D surface through perspective, compositional, color, and technique choices. This class is specific to Acrylic Paint.

Winter Quarter: 9 weeks

Monday January 7, 6pm–9pm

Tuition: $250, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Bill Firestone

Emphasis is on painting in a loose manner, including getting started and then stopping before overworking. Regardless of technique or style the student learns through demonstration, discussion and practice how best to keep artwork fresh and viable. The focus is on an uninhibited approach for a less rigid result.

Winter Quarter: 9 weeks

Tuesday January 8, 10am–1pm

Tuition: $250, supply list given at first class meeting
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Chester Kasnowski

We will explore the elements of design to build compelling landscapes through the use of photograph, reference material and natural surroundings. Participants may choose between oil, acrylic or watercolor. Different approaches and techniques will be covered to find what works best for you. Beginning with a simple landscape of the instructor’s choosing, we will then move to more personal landscapes.

Winter Quarter: 7 weeks

Tuesday January 8, 10am–1pm

Tuition: $230, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Phoebe Peterson

Students will learn about composition, color, value, and perspective. In class demos will show the basics of Grisaille painting and “blocking-in”. Topics that will be discussed include mixing clean colors, paint application, the use of hard and soft edges as well as color harmony, creating the effect of light, and the use of transparent and opaque paints. Students are encouraged to bring their own photographs or still life resource materials to create their own compositions. Instruction will be given to each student individually, at their level of experience, so that each may reach their goals and discover their own style.

Winter Quarter: 8 weeks

Tuesday January 8, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Tuition: $240, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels: Adults

Instructor: Lynn Goldstein

This class includes various approaches to the soft pastel medium that will help encourage students to develop their personal style. Several techniques will be explored and applied to complete pastel paintings for a deeper understanding of this versatile medium. Fundamentals of design, composition and color will be discussed. Students will use their own resource materials to compose paintings. Instruction will be provided to determine how best to complete a painting with photographic resource material. Beginners should bring drawing materials; intermediate and advanced students should bring their pastel supplies to the first class.

Winter Quarter: 8 weeks
Wednesday January 9, 10am-12:30pm

Tuition: $225, supply list distributed at first class

Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Marni Maree

You know that pile of unfinished paintings you have? What is keeping you from finishing them? Maybe something’s not working in your painting and you don’t know how to fix it. I will point you in the right direction and help you to resolve problem areas. Whether it’s technique, color mixing, composition, or value, I’ll help you improve your work and skills. You will receive individual attention, instruction, and guidance on your own projects so you can finish those paintings or begin new ones. Bring your own supplies to work with in class.

Winter Quarter: 8 weeks

Wednesday January 9, 10am–1pm

Tuition: $240

Location: W-3, 305

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: M. Jane Johnson

Students will explore using color, texture and pattern to create mixed media artwork.  They will develop abstracts using the different elements and principles of design and learn how to abstract them through examples.  Working with acrylics, collage, drawing medium, and gels, they will see how to add dimension and interest to their work.

Winter Quarter: 9 weeks

Wednesday January 9, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $250, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Hsi-Mei Yates

Chinese Brush Painting can trace its culture back over 2000 years of Chinese history and art. There is no need for previous painting experience to enjoy this class; all levels are welcome. The instructor will begin with simple brush strokes and guide you through the step by step process of creating flowers and birds in this traditional style.

Winter Quarter: 9 weeks

Morning Session: Thursday January 10, 11am-1pm

Evening Session: Thursday January 10, 6pm–8pm

Tuition: $220

Materials Fee: Optional $80 kit includes black ink, rice paper, one large bamboo brush, one small bamboo brush, felt, a watercolor container, a set of 12 watercolors, a mixing plate, and a small dish.

Payable to the instructor at first class. Or bring your own supplies.

Location: W-5

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Marni Maree

This class is designed for students who want a time and place to paint. Students work on individual projects with as much critique, support and guidance from the instructor as wanted. All mediums are welcome. Bring your own supplies.

Winter Quarter: 8 weeks

Friday January 11, 10am–1pm

Tuition: $240
Location: W-6, 607

Beginner to Intermediate Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Mehrdad Izadi

Learn the fundamentals and techniques of watercolor, and how to see like an artist. Students will practice how to “see the lines”, weigh light and dark tones and values, and recognize mass and volume, practice brush strokes and more while working from photographs and still life.

Winter Quarter: 9 weeks

Friday January 11, 6pm–8:30pm

Tuition: $235, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-6, 602

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Nadine Thola

Nothing to do or looking for something special? Learn to paint in Acrylics! Teens, couples, friends or just you can enjoy a night of discovering your inner artist! With basics techniques taught, you can choose demonstrated painting styles and colors to make your work of truly your own!

Winter Quarter: One day

Session A: Friday January 11, 7pm-9pm,

Theme: Snow/snowman/pine trees

Session B: Friday February 8, 7pm-9pm, Theme: Gotta have hearts!

Session C: Friday March 8, 7pm-9pm, Theme: Tulips and Daffodils

Tuition: $65, includes all materials
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Lynda Ray

Encaustic painting is a process that produces impressive results with luminous and jewel-like surfaces and textures. Students will learn techniques such as melting through, line and edge, transfers, texture and collage where one will choose to practice these methods or just the ones that interest them. At the end of the workshop, artists will be familiar with a range of techniques which they can use as they develop their body of work. All supplies provided.

Winter Quarter: One day

Session A: Saturday January 12, 11am–5pm  

Session B: Saturday February 9, 11am–5pm

Session C: Saturday March 9, 11am-5pm

Tuition: $140

Materials Fee: $40, payable to the instructor at first class. An optional materials list will be supplied before the workshop.

Location: W-7, 711

All Skill Levels: Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Nadine Thola

Learn to do stroke work for any technique of painting. This is a great how-to class. Learn comma, dots, and drop like (thin to thick) strokes, dabs, dry brush and thin lines. This is a great way to add detail or make flowers out of strokes.

Winter Quarter: One day

Wednesday February 6, 5pm-6:30pm

Tuition: $40
Location: W-10

(Ink washes + watercolor)
All Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor: Epp Meisner

Through the use of quick 5-30 minute poses, students begin to develop an instinct for proportion and handling the medium technique to capture the essence of a figure.  The focus is placed on defining movement, balance, shapes and masses, as well as value. Various lines and washes of diluted monochromatic ink or watercolor, and then color in watercolor will be used to create expressive, lively figure drawings.

Winter Quarter: 4 weeks
Friday February 8, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $170, model fees will be applied in class
Location: W-3, 305

All Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor: Epp Meisner

Learn to draw and paint human figure quickly using shape and proportion, contour line and sighting technique. Learn to mix warm and cool flesh tones from fresh washes of watercolor to capture the spirit of the model.

Winter Quarter: One day
Session A: Sunday February 17, 10am-4pm

Session B: Sunday March 10, 10am-4pm

Tuition: $140
Materials: Model fee’s will be collected in class.
Location: W-6, 607

(Ink washes + watercolor)

All Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor: Epp Meisner

Drawing and Painting Botanicals (flowers, tree branches, leaves, etc.) capture each subject’s personality through line, washes and color. Students will be encouraged to strive for a lively expression, not botanical accuracy.

Winter Quarter: One day
Sunday February 24, 10am-4pm

Tuition: $140
Location: W-6, 607