September 12 @ 9 AM - September 14 @ 4 PM Chantel will share tips and techniques learned from over twenty-five years of working in the acrylic medium. She will demonstrate painting the portrait from reference photos without losing the energy and vitality of working from life. The cost of this workshop is $595. To [...]

September 19 @ 9 AM - September 20 @ 4 PM A perfect wash can express an entire world if the values, edges, color and shape are just right. This class is designed to help you learn and practice this essential skill. Using landscape subjects, John will show you how to gain understanding/mastery of those [...]

September 19-21, 2024 In this workshop, our main focus will be on the art of capturing and portraying light. Light plays a vital role in bringing depth, atmosphere, and realism to any artwork, techniques that can be employed to effectively represent light, including glazing, wet-on-wet, and drybrush techniques. The cost of this workshop is $595. [...]

September 26 & 27, 2024 In this workshop, students will learn how to create unique, abstract landscapes with acrylics. Techniques in value, color composition, layering, and acrylic mediums will be explored. The importance of using transparent verses opaque colors will be demonstrated as well as how to paint “wet into wet”. The cost of this [...]

September 26-28, 2024 In Margaret’s workshops students are taught traditional pastel and/or oil painting techniques. Working from life and photos of a model taken during class, students will explore drawing, composition, anatomy, proportion, value, color and medium application, and developing form using light and shadow. The cost of this workshop is $595. To find a [...]

Barbara Schilling-Abstracting the Landscape   October 7, 14, 21 and 28, 1 PM-5 PM   Finding ways to simplify your landscape painting will offer the viewer a cleaner more direct communication of your story. This workshop will cover thoughts and ideas on creating a more abstract, less literal interpretation of a landscape painting.    The [...]

Features to this class will include drawing, various types of paint handling, and color mixing. David’s goal for this class is to share tools to help the student achieve a sophisticated translation of the head in oil reminiscent of the 19th century Neoclassical French Masters. The cost of this workshop is $700. To find a [...]

October 10 @ 9 AM - October 12 @ 4 PM This workshop involves collage making, drawing & painting. Students will get hands-on experience on how this series was constructed which will generate their future innovative approaches and perspectives. The cost of this workshop is $520. To find a complete listing of this workshop please [...]

October 17 & 18, 9 AM - 4 PM In watercolor painting, where the medium's transparent nature allows for delicate layering and subtle variations, mastering values and edges becomes particularly crucial. Proper control over the intensity of pigments and the management of edges can help achieve a sense of realism or express a particular artistic [...]

October 17-19, 9 AM - 4 PM  This is the college course you always wished you had taken! Unlike the typical workshop you won't spend days on finishing one painting, but rather you'll study principles and work through visual exercises and painting studies which will change both your observational and studio practice. The cost of [...]

Eric Michaels-Painting Winter Scenes: the Advantages of Watercolor March 6 & 7, 2025 In this workshop, we will explore those properties, with an emphasis on using the white of the paper to advantage, and ways to achieve transparency and light, a variety of edges, atmospheric affects and appropriate winter colors.   The cost of this [...]

Catherine Tonning-Popowich-Mono printing With A Gelli Plate April 24 & 25, 2025, 9 AM - 4 PM Students will learn mono printing using Gelli Plates, This is a hands on class where we apply acrylic paint on the plate, make impressions in the paint with various objects such as stamps, stencils, natural materials with textures [...]