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  • Introduction to Watercolor - Wednesday Mornings

    It’s not short, it's fun-sized! In this 4-week course created specifically for first-timers, students will receive a crash course in all things watercolor! Learn the basic techniques of paint application, color mixing, and more! Best of all, you will leave this class with a new tool to add to your creative toolkit!
  • Painting 102 - Tuesday Afternoons

    Are you looking for an artist community of painters? Look no more! This painter-designed studio setting will inspire you as you explore the world of painting with oils. Learn to use oil-based mediums and paint with techniques unique to slow-drying oil painting. As drawing skills are needed, OAC offers Drawing 101 and 102. All painters are welcome in this open studio environment. A supply list is provided at the time of registration.
  • Painting 102 - Wednesday Afternoons

    Are you looking for an artist community of painters? Look no more! This painter-designed studio setting will inspire you as you explore the world of painting with oils. Learn to use oil-based mediums and paint with techniques unique to slow-drying oil painting. As drawing skills are needed, OAC offers Drawing 101 and 102. All painters are welcome in this open studio environment. A supply list is provided at the time of registration.
  • Representational Painting - Friday Mornings

    Beautiful paintings are made from the eye of the beholder, but they can also be made from the eye of your camera lens! In this exciting course, students will learn how to navigate the different challenges and discoveries of painting from life versus painting from an image. Using acrylic or oils, students will have the opportunity to follow along with short-run projects or produce a series of painting studies. Throughout the course, students will learn about the process of painting (both from life and images), and explore color theory, shape, shade, and line. A supply list is provided at the time of registration.
  • Still Life Painting - Thursday Mornings

    The masters created still paintings, so why not you? Students will find understanding and develop new skills in the art of observational painting. Acrylic paints and mediums will add ease to working directly from life. Various techniques will be covered, including finding composition, blocking in shapes, using structural components, paint handling, and mixing accurate colors based on observation of objects and their arrangement and the effect of lighting. A supply list is provided at the time of registration.
  • The Grand Illusion 2-Day Watercolor Workshop with David Rankin

    The ability to create a believable illusion of spatial depth with just a little pigment and water is one of the most magical abilities in watercolor. It is accomplished through a complex orchestration of several distinct skills, all of which contribute to the perception of spatial depth. These procedures allow the viewer to see distance whether in a landscape or between objects. Depth can be the result of a skillful assembly of values or it can result from the use of correct perspective. It can also be enhanced tremendously by skillfully creating a variation in edges and blends or by assembling shapes of varying sizes and relationships. In this workshop, David will train artists in the skills needed to create and assemble these various visual effects using his step-by-step procedures. Get ready to paint! A supply list will be provided upon registration; participants skill leveled intermediate - advanced welcome. Course Image Credit: David Rankin