Studio Arts   

Create a landscape or still life watercolor painting in each educational and enjoyable class session, using a variety of creative watercolor techniques, including wet-on-wet, dry-to-wet and the dry brush method, just to name a few. A variety of brushes will be used to expand on these techniques and the occasional use of watercolor pencils will create quick and surprising detail to your painting. Each session will introduce at least one of these techniques, allowing you to bring home a completed masterpiece that is created in a relaxed atmosphere (including background jazz!). This course is designed for both the beginner and more advanced artist. This semester will feature all new paintings, and will not repeat paintings from previous semesters.

Create a landscape or still life watercolor painting in each educational and enjoyable class session, using a variety of creative watercolor techniques, including wet-on-wet, dry-to-wet and the dry brush method, just to name a few. A variety of brushes will be used to expand on these techniques and the occasional use of watercolor pencils will create quick and surprising detail to your painting. Each session will introduce at least one of these techniques, allowing you to bring home a completed masterpiece that is created in a relaxed atmosphere (including background jazz!). This course is designed for both the beginner and more advanced artist. This semester will feature all new paintings, and will not repeat paintings from previous semesters.

The Zentangle® Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns called tangles. Zentangle® can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of skill, experience, or artistic training. This beautiful, artistic, mindfulness practice increases focus and creativity and provides artistic satisfaction, along with an increased sense of personal wellbeing. This class is suitable for beginner tanglers.

Like to draw? Dream of taking your sketching to the next level?  Beginner and exerpienced students alike will get individualized instruction to bring out their inner artist and develop their unique style.  We'll cover valuable drawing skills, such as shading, contour design and composition.  Bring your desire to advance your art and expect fun and camaraderie as you learn.  This class is appropriate for both beginner and repeat students.  Repeat students have the option of working on a project of their choice.

Join local instructor Mike Teator on a wonderful journey into the fun world of cartooning. Just a few basic shapes are your keys to creating faces, expressions, bodies, poses and actions. Working with pencil and ink, you will learn shading, composition and perspective. We will cover narrative, visual storytelling, panel layout, and lettering. Your final creation will be a comic strip with special effects, crazy ideas and silly story lines. Come prepared to laugh in this fun and relaxing class! This class is appropriate for beginner and experienced artists.

Calligraphy can be a meditation as well as an art form if you slow down and enjoy the beautiful process stroke by stroke. Students will learn the fundamentals of calligraphy by working with three different calligraphy tools. First we'll use a pointed pen and learn a copperplate alphabet, a beautiful, elegant 18th century script style. Then, we will switch to a broad edge marker and learn an Italic alphabet, a versatile 15th century calligraphy style. Finally, we will learn modern calligraphy techniques using a brush pen. Beginner students will progress from learning the basic letter forms to writing sentences. This class is for both absolute beginners and more experienced students who would like to fine tune their skills.