Drawing
Learn about drawing with a pencil or charcoal. Explore values and how to add texture to your drawings. Learn which paper works best and how to care for your tools. Then pick a subject and let's draw it!
Drawing
Learn about drawing with a pencil or charcoal. Explore values and how to add texture to your drawings. Learn which paper works best and how to care for your tools. Then pick a subject and let's draw it!
Meditative Drawing
There are enough stresses in the world today so learning how to relax, discover a way to slow down your brain, and make something absolutely beautiful in the process is a great way to spend a couple of hours. In this class, I will show you how I combine both zentangle and neurographic doodling methods for relaxing and meditative art.
Acrylic Painting
Let me provide all the paint, canvas, and brushes you need to make a sweet 8 x 10 painting. I will teach you about paint, brushes, mediums, and substrates. Consider signing up for more than one acrylic painting class if you want to work continue learning about acrylic.
Watercolor Painting
In this first class, you will learn about watercolor paint tubes, pans, pens, pencils, crayons, and liquid. What kind of brushes and paper work best? Before you go spend a small fortune on supplies you can try them all and see if it’s something you really are going to love. Learn some fun ways to add interest or texture to the picture and we should have time to make a painting or two, too!
There is so much to know about watercolor so if you are really wanting to learn the art I suggest you take a few sessions.
Mixed Media
I love the wabi-sabi, intuitive and freeing feeling you get from layering papers, stencils, acrylic, pastels, ink, paint, and all kinds of other supplies onto your canvas. I will teach you what glue, paint, and papers work best. You will learn how to veil your background and highlight your focus. There is a lot, a whole lot that we can do in this class. The first lesson will give you a really good start but don’t hesitate to sign up for more than one so we can do a deeper dive into mixed media art.
Book Binding
If you have ever used a journal for writing, appointments, drawing, or painting then learning how to make your own will be something that you will never be sorry you learned. I will teach you binding techniques and supply all the paper, covers, and other supplies you need to make your first book. Once you get the basics you can custom-make your own books to the size, shape and fill them with the type of paper you want. They make great gifts and may just spark an interest in learning different or more difficult binding techniques.
