Capture the spirit of this season by creating custom Holiday cards. Join our festivities and follow along as Luke demonstrates the planning of your typography, color, and compositon for snowman art on your cards. You have the option of painting along or creating your own subject matter. Either way use our supplies for up to ten cards/A6 envelopes included, watercolor, colored pencils, or acrylic paint. Join us for one or both demo days or pop in another day to finish.

What you get:

• Come in for the quick tutorial on designing your cards
• Follow along Luke’s demonstration
• For all ages but kids 8 years or younger must be accompanied by an adult
• Create a palette of acrylic paints, watercolor, markers, or colored pencils
• Create up to 10, A6 size w/envelopes per person and watercolor cards (2 per person)
• Still need more time? Pop in for additional open studio days

Instructor | Ryanne Phillips
Six weeks | Coming in 2026!
Saturdays | 10:30am-12:30 pm
Tuition | $330, Includes Life Drawing session

This is the perfect introduction for students new to figure drawing, or those who want to reacquaint old skills, or for intermediate students who want instructed practice to improve their renderings. Ryanne will move students through the classical process of drawing the figure. Drop in day/rate is available

1. Gesture Drawing Essentials | Breaking down the line of action and recognizing key skeletal masses—head, clavicle, rib cage, and pelvis—to capture the overall energy of the pose.
2. Adding Mass to Gesture Drawings |  Learn how to add mass to arms and legs on top of the gesture, using shapes to represent larger body parts and enhance the figure’s structure.
3. Gesture and Proportion |  Introduction to key proportions using the head as a measuring unit to establish the figure’s height and position on the page, alignment, enveloping to make sure the figure fits within the composition of the picture plane, becoming familiar with the 7 average proportions of figure drawing.
4. Finishing the Drawing | Focus on accurately placing shadow shapes, solidifying form, bringing in hints of anatomical structure and capturing details to bring the figure to life on paper.

Supply list for students: 18×24 Strathmore 400 Series drawing pad, 18×24 Newsprint drawing pad, Willow charcoal sticks, Two each of compressed charcoal pencils: 2B, 4B, and 6B, One each graphite pencils: HB, 2B, 4B.

First and Second Friday of the month
Time | 10:00AM – 2:00PM
Instructor | Denise Wada

Tuition | $55/day or $100/month
Semester | Feb-May $320/four months
Supplies | optional supply fee available on as needed basis

This explorative art class is meant to be a day of discovery. All levels of experience are invited to explore their next big piece of work. Students may use the studio references or bring their photos, ideas, inspiration and create. Subjects include animals, flowers, landscapes, or self portraits, abstract or real. For the more experienced student, play is an activity of discovery to help unblock or find new ways of using color, techniques, and abstraction.

This is a fun class for all ages and levels of experience, great for the whole family or your group of friends.

STEM/STEAM WORKSHOP

Instructor | Eric Rosenthal, Professional VFX Artist
Five Sundays | 11-2 pm 
Tuition | $360
Age level 10 years – adult

This special guest instructor, Eric Rosenthal, is a visual effects artist who has more than 20 years of experience working with big studios like Sony Pictures Animation, The Walt Disney Company, and Dreamworks Animation.

Introduction to Python Coding Using Blender’s 3d Animation Tools   This unique class teaches the fundamental concepts of Python programming with a fun twist.  The students will write code to create and manipulate geometry in the 3D world of Blender!  The concepts covered in this class are the same as in traditional programming classes but the 3D Animation of Blender will add excitement to the students’ journey into coding.   Blender is a free software so all students will have easy access to it.  But it is also very powerful and was used extensively in the 2024 Oscar winning animated feature “Flow”.
We will learn the basics of programming starting with the fundamental building blocks of variables and expressions and moving to more advanced concepts.  All lessons will be visualized in Blender’s 3D display, which will reinforce the students’ learning and make it more fun.  We will also cover some basic Math and Physics that apply to object animation.  The students will leave with new ideas and confidence in their ability to use programming to problem solve.

Requirements | This workshop requires students to have a laptop, a 3 button mouse, and Blender, a free software installed. Please, have the software on your computer and ready to go. For students without a laptop, three desktop computers will be available on a first come basis and upon request.

Instructor | Eric Rosenthal, Professional VFX Artist
Three Sundays | 2-5 pm 
Tuition | $195
Age level 10 years – adult

This special guest instructor, Eric Rosenthal, is a visual effects artist who has more than 20 years of experience working with big studios like Sony Pictures Animation, The Walt Disney Company, and Dreamworks Animation.

Eric’s workshop is a fun and exciting hands-on introduction to 3D Animation using Blender, a free but powerful 3D Animation tool. Students will start with small lessons designed to quickly learn the basics and gradually progress to more challenging tasks. The final project lets the students use their creative energy and create a custom animation with their own idea. No prior 3D experience with 3D software is necessary, just an interest in art and animation. All you need is a laptop with Blender installed and a mouse!

Requirements | This workshop requires a laptop with Blender, a free software download. Please, have the software on your computer and ready to go. For students without a laptop, three desktop computers will be available on a first come basis and upon request.

Balloon Master | Luke Gray
Three Dates | Nov 23, Dec 14, and/or Jan 4
Saturdays | 5-6:30pm 
Tuition | $45

Welcome to Experience Art where students physical act of dart throwing renders a one-of-a-kinda art piece. You’ll receive darts, balloons, paint, canvas, lane, instructions, and plenty of fun!  It’s time to let your thoughts, feelings, or creativity explode onto a canvas!

Figurative Sculpture

All Levels | Rachel Chang will take students on a three dimensional journey as students sculpt a portrait or figure. Lessons and demonstrations will provide students with an understanding of anatomy, proportions, and details of facial features. Artists will use tools to sculpt clay, employing techniques such as additive (adding material) and subtractive (removing material) methods to shape the likeness. Learn how to use sculpting tools, surface textures, and the ability to capture emotions and expressions are crucial technical aspects in creating a lifelike portrait sculpture.

Instructor | Rachel Chang
6 Saturdays | 10 am – 2 pm
Tuition |  $665

Figure Sculpture
June 22 – July 27, 2024

Instruction, model, and materials included in tuition 

Sculpture Portrait/Figure

All Levels |  For students with a basic understanding of how to draw the features of the head in accurate values but would like to improve certain aspects of their drawings. In this class we can really make strides by concentrating on certain techniques or aesthetic qualities of our drawing/painting. Students will begin with black and white studies in either drawing or painting mediums with the option of developing color.

Instructor | Rachel Chang
8 Fridays | 10 am – 2 pm
Tuition |  $760

Instruction, model, and materials included in tuition

• 1/2 to 3/4 life size head/12″ figure
• Wood armature and base
• Male model present
• Sight size photo prints
• Oil or water based clay
• Tools for in workshop use
• Option to mold making/casts
• Option for additional studio time

New! Two hour workshop featuring themes for family or date night

POP ART WORKSHOP

Pumpkin Painting
October 7, 2023
Saturday  | 5:00-7:00pm

Tuition | $36 per person, all supples included
Save 10% off groups of 4 or more!
Bring your group of friends and family and we’ll reserve your table.

We have an assortment of 4-6″ pumpkins and gourds to add a face to. Create the face you envision or get some ideas from our Character Design instructor, Luke Gray. We will provide the supplies, music, and atmosphere for a fun evening of painting. Bring your group of friends and family and we’ll reserve your table. Save 10% off groups of 4 or more!

Join us for our first POP UP, a festive time painting faces on simulated pumpkins and gourds.

• Come in and select from a variety of 4-6″ decorations to paint (included) or bring your own
• Walk through the demo with Luke on how to create an emotional face
• Create a palette of acrylic paints
• Art knows no bounds – you think of it and we’ll help you create it
• Can’t think of what to paint, we can help you release your creativity 

Fridays | 5:00-8:00 pm
Six weeks | March 10 – April 14
Tuition | $390

• Instructor | Instructor | Catherine Bobkoski

Create expressive paintings using interesting tools and techniques. This class will help you develop creative compositions using flowers. We will focus on creating two flower paintings over the course of 6 weeks, which will allow you to fully explore the process, from the initial sketch to the finishing layers. Explore texture with both direct and indirect painting techniques and unusual mark-making tools. Students will have the opportunity to:

•  Begin with thumbnail ideation sketches to compose dynamic compositions and develop two paintings
• Explore methods for beginning the painting
• Study the colors of the subject and select specific pigments for painting naturalistically.
• Experiment with painting techniques, like using sandpaper to smooth the surface, oiling out, glazing and scumbling, and building detail and focus.
• Use and combine different painting tools and mediums to create texture.

 Fridays* | 10:00am -1:00pm or 4:00-7:00pm
We are trying to find the best time, select your availability and we’ll see which time works best.

Six weeks | October 7 – November 11, 2022
Tuition | $330, optional materials fee $90
Enrollment is free until the minimum required is met, at which time you will be asked to pay the tuition in full.

• Instructor | Instructor | Catherine Bobkoski

Flowers are an incredibly rewarding and fun painting subject – but also a very challenging one! This workshop will introduce you to some basic concepts and practices that will make flower painting a little less intimidating. Students will begin with studying the structure and form of flowers using a monochromatic palette. With a solid foundation of drawing structure and value, adding color becomes much easier. We will focus specifically on how to simplify complex forms by squinting, following a clear value design, and thinking in geometric forms. We will also discuss selecting flowers and arranging them simply to create beautiful compositions for painting. Students will work from still-life setups and in an alla-prima or wet-into-wet style, which builds confidence and painting skills quickly. This workshop will be an illuminating and inspirational introduction for the aspiring flower painter. All experience levels are welcome.

4 Saturdays |  May 28, June 4, 11, and 18
Time | 10:00AM – 2:00PM

• Instructor | Rachel Chang

Tuition | $300, +$40/supplies

Rachel will take students through the steps of using a life model for this workshop. Students will learn how to see key measurements, angles, and features specific to our model. The model will pose for the first two days
and the last two days we will work from photos.

Instruction and materials included:

• 1/2 life size wood armature and base
• Sight size photo prints
• Choice of oil or water based clay
• Tools for in workshop use