This class is specifically designed for adults who are absolute beginners, and wanting to start their creative journey. That being said, we have had many advanced or experienced artists love this class, because of my unique approach to teaching drawing and painting. Whatever your level, please join us!

The purpose of this class is to help students to understand the concepts of space, form, light and shadow in drawing and painting. 

First, you will learn about working with charcoal, and how it can create beautiful, soft values. I teach drawing in a unique way, connecting that experience directly to your acrylic painting techniques. Second, You will learn about acrylic paints, and how to mix your own tones to paint a still-life value study. 

This workshop allows me to teach to the artistic process, and not the product empowering students to create in many styles and directions as they move forward.

Drawing is the root of many art forms, and I love seeing the confidence of my students grow in that respect!

This 6 week class runs on Tuesday evenings, 6:00pm- 8:00pm;4/8/25, 4/15/25, 4/22/25, 4/29/25, 5/6/25 and 5/13/25.

This class is specifically designed for adult artists.

When artists set out to express themselves, they have an arsenal of skills that they have collected and trained with for years. The most powerful of these is the ability to DRAW.There are many definitions, but drawing to me means the mark making it that is a foundation of your image. The powers of gravity, space, form, light, shadow, even perspective are vital to artists.Join us as students will use pencil, charcoal and various blending tools to learn how to make quick studies as well as longer more involved drawing studies using layering.

This class will run for 6 sessions on Thursay early afternoons, 1:00pm-3:00pm; 4/10/25, 4/17/25, 4/24/25, 5/1/25, 5/8/25 & 5/15/25.

This class is designed for adult artists who are are ready to learn techniques of beginning oil painting.

Are you ready to learn something new? Have you always wanted to learn how to use oil paints, but it seemed overwhelming? Oil paints have a long history in the world of Art. We will learn about all of those possibilities. Students will also learn what paints, brushes, and mediums to buy, and when to use them. As a class, we will bring together the skills of drawing, color, mixing, and the painting process and empower our students as they ind their own way as artists!

This class will run on Thursday mornings; 10-12:00pm 4/17/25, 4/24/25, 5/1/25, 5/8/25, 5/15/25 & 5/22/25.

This class is designed for adult artists who are are ready to learn techniques of beginning oil painting.

Are you ready to learn something new? Have you always wanted to learn how to use oil paints, but it seemed overwhelming?Oil paints have a long history in the world of Art. We will learn about all of those possibilities. Students will also learn what paints, brushes, and mediums to buy, and when to use them. As a class, we will bring together the skills of drawing, color, mixing, and the painting process and empower our students as they ind their own way as artists!

This class will run on Friday mornings; 10-12:00pm 4/25/25, 5/2/25, 5/9/25 & 5/16/25.

This class is designed for artists in Kindergarten through 2nd grade. 

In 1886, The artists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the painting technique of painting with very small points of color as opposed to blending the paint.  The term Pointillism was actually used by critics at the time to make fun of these artists in a cruel way.  Little did they know that the style as well as the named would survive as an inventive form of Impressionism.  Georges Seurat found that the ability of the eye and the mind of the viewer to blend these dots of paint through sight could allow the use of more colors, and a broader range of tone in his paintings.  

Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of landscape drawing such as how to use horizon lines, Drawing tress, and knowing their parts, and drawing the scene in perspective.  These may seem like difficult concepts for budding artists, but I promise you, they can do it!!!

Please join us and create your masterpiece!

 This 4 session class runs 4:00-5:30pm on 4/28/25, 5/5/25, 5/12/25 & 5/19/25.

This class is specifically designed for the tween & teenage artists.

Claude Monet actually coined the term Impressionism with his painting ‘Impression of a Sunset’, so with whom better to study landscape painting! Monet was a master of using color and brushwork to evoke beautiful, natural light in his paintings. Often, as artists, we draw images with a pencil, and fill them in with color, but please come to this class and learn to draw WITH paint. You will learn some incredibly mysterious color theories and how to use them in your paintings . Learning to SEE the world around us and to experience the possibilities of making pictures is the way to bring out our inner artist! 

This 4 session class will run on Wednesdays, 4:00-5:30pm; 4/30/25, 5/7/25, 5/14/25, & 5/21/25

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 1

4 consecutive days: 6/2/25 - 6/5/25

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday; 9:00am-10:30am 

This class is specifically designed for young artists in Kindergarten through 8th grade.

Henri Matisse 1869 to 1954, was a French artist known too many, even Picasso!, As the artist who began a revolution in the visual arts! His intense use of color in 1905 prompted critics to label him and his painting group “Wild beasts!” His genius was his ability to see art as play, and invention.Our class will focus on Matisse’s abstract cut outs. As he became older, even ill, he could not stop creating and began to form ‘paintings’ with cut paper and collage.Students will learn to pin arrangements of color and shapes to their canvas in the same improvisational way that a jazz musician might play music. Drawing, composition, abstraction and individual creativity will still be at the heart of each lesson.

This 4 session class runs Mon. 6/2/25, Tues. 6/3/25, Wed. 6/4/25, & Thurs. 6/5/25; 9:00-10:30am

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 1

4 consecutive days: 6/2/25 - 6/5/25

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday; 11:00am-12:30pm

This class is designed specifically for artists in grades 3rd-9th.

At times, artists choose a certain medium because of its expressiveness, sometimes for its vivid color. In this class we will choose India ink, Quill pen drawing, and dry-point printmaking for their ability to draw very tiny and detailed works of art! INSECTS! If you are an artist at heart, but also love science and the study of animals and living things, this class makes that connection beautifully!Work at your own pace and choose insects, or lovable, creepy crawlies that inspire you to make these remarkable pieces!

This 4 session class will run on Mon. 6/2/25, Tues.6/3/25, Wed. 6/4/25, & Thurs.6/5/25; 11:00am-12:30pm