Studio Arts   

In this class, you will create a variety of landscapes, abstract works, and still lifes in watercolor. You will learn and review different techniques, brush use, and color use, and you will leave each session with a unique piece to proudly display where you wish. Whether you are a beginner, lapsed, or more experienced artist, come get colorful and creative!

This drawing course is appropriate for both beginner and experienced artists. In six sessions, we will complete a series of drawings based on observation. The class will focus specifically on sighting techniques and linear perspective. We will draw architectural elements, including room interiors and urban scenes. Through techniques of sighting, we can correctly draw proportion and perspective using a straight edge to judge relative lengths and widths, as well as the angles of objects in our field of view from a specific location. We will also cover techniques of linear perspective, using 1, 2, and 3-point perspective. Both approaches can be used for accurate rendering, and understanding them both makes drawing complex perspectives easy to draw. This class will be held in Tuckahoe’s Broken Bow Brewery, which has a vast array of exciting visual subjects for perspective studies: massive cylindroconical fermentation vessels in stainless steel and copper, along with pumps, valves, pipes, and assorted tools used for the processing. Newcomers are welcome, as we will begin with a complete review of our introduction to drawing techniques.

This class is for anyone who wants to learn how to draw or hone their drawing skills. It is appropriate for beginner and repeat students. In the first half of the course, we will learn drawing elements, like using lines and edges, creating texture, reducing complex forms to simple shapes, and building a form through shading. We will build on what we learn in the second part of the course to create thoughtful compositions, balancing form and technique with your subject matter and exploring alternative and contemporary approaches to drawing. Students can bring in objects of their choice to draw, aligning with the focus of each class. 

Explore your talents with acrylic paint. In each class, students will transform a blank canvas into a finished masterpiece. With step-by-step instructions, you will be guided to create your one-of-a-kind work. Students will learn and use techniques such as blending, layering, splattering, and dry brushing to add texture and detail to their work. Subject titles will include Zebra Painting, Head in the Clouds, Landscape, Love Birds, Starry Night City Scape, Abstract Painting, Abstract Landscape, and Butterfly Letter. All levels are welcome, and no experience is required. 

Colored pencils are the perfect medium to bring the quiet beauty of winter to life on paper...tender twigs with a hint of green, berries bursting in red, blue, and black, stunning seedpods, and always...the evergreens. Join us to learn to draw botanical subjects with colored pencils through line and tone. Easy-to-draw shapes will become realistic botanicals with highlights and shadows. By blending and layering, you will achieve frameable works of art...all drawn from winter’s offerings. All skill levels are welcome in this class.

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.

Does someone have your heart all tangled up in knots? Let’s get some Zen and show our love as we design two cards to give our special Valentines! This class is suitable for beginner and experienced tanglers alike.

The Zentangle® Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns called tangles. This beautiful, artistic, mindfulness practice increases focus and creativity and provides artistic satisfaction, along with an increased sense of personal well-being.

In this four-week course, you will design and make two black and white or colorful prints to create a frameable print, ten notecards, and even a tote or apron. With step-by-step instruction, you will plan your image, design a pattern, carve a linocut, and print with colorful, textural effects. This course introduces the basics of printmaking using water-based block printing ink. Beginner and experienced artists are welcome.

Ron Ramsey is back for one evening this session to lead you in creating a masterpiece using acrylic paint. His techniques will help beginners to quickly learn an impressionistic style, and experienced painters can incorporate these techniques into their own style. In just two hours, students will complete their work of art in a relaxed atmosphere (including background jazz!).