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Acrylic Painting: Summer Scenes (Tweens & Teens)

$300

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 2, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 1 week

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 1

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

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday; 1:00pm-3:00pm

This is an acrylic painting class that focuses on the summer landscape. 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 Mon. 6/2/25, Tues. 6/3/25, Wed. 6/4/25 & Thurs. 6/5/25; 1:00pm-3:00pm.

Payment plan available: $100 deposit plus 4 payments of $50.00, paid every two weeks.

George Seurat Painted with Dots! Pointillism (Kindergarten-5th grade)

$225

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 9, 2025 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 2

4 consecutive days: 6/9/25 - 6/12/25

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

This class is designed for artists in Kindergarten through 5th 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 Mon. 6/9/25, Tues. 6/10/25, Wed.6/11/25, & Thurs. 6/12/25; 9:00am-10:30am

Payment plan available: $100 deposit plus 2 payments of $62.50, paid every four weeks.

Huichol: Mexican Yarn Painting (3rd-Teens)

$225

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 9, 2025 at 11 am, runs for 1 week

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 2

4 consecutive days: 6/9/25 - 6/12/25

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

This class is specifically designed for artists in 3rd garders through teenagers.

The Huichol people of the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico, create astounding, colorful paintings made of yarn. Images are drawn on a wooden board, and then the surface is covered with sticky beeswax. This holds the entire painting together!

 Please join us and experience the mindfulness of this beautiful art making process.

 

This 4 session class runs Mon. 6/9/25, Tues.6/10/25 , Wed. 6/11/25, & Thurs. 6/12/25; 11:00am-12:30pm

Payment plan available: $100 deposit plus 2 payments of $62.50, paid every four weeks.

One Portrait: 4 Techniques (Tweens & Teens)

$300

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 9, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 1 week

Ages: 10 - 19

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 2

4 consecutive days: 6/9/25 - 6/12/25

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday; 1:00pm - 3:00pm

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

Making art is all about playing. Artists need time to experiment with materials and mark-making before they find their individual style. Many of us can recognize a Picasso, a van Gogh, or a Frida Kahlo very quickly, but what makes those Works so recognizable? They found their voices.This 6 week workshop will give you the chance to play with many different techniques and materials as you interpret a portrait of your choice.Without pressure, this is a chance to create 8 pieces using 8 different processes! How intriguing is that?!! No experiences needed for this class except a wonderful, curiosity and appreciation for the arts! Please join us and take home 8 finished portraits!

 

This 4 session class that runs Mon. 6/9/25, Tues. 6/10/25, Wed. 6/11/25, & Thurs. 6/12/25; 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Payment plan available: $100 deposit plus 4 payments of $50.00, paid every two weeks.

Intro to Watercolors (Kindergarten through 5th grade)

$225

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 16, 2025 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 3

4 Days:

Monday 6/16/25, Tuesday 6/17/25, Wednesday 6/18/35, & Friday 6/20/25 

(No classes in observance of Juneteenth, Thursday 6/19/25)

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

This class is designed specifically for artists in Kindergarten through Fifth grade.

We will discover all that watercolors have to offer. Often students are given watercolors to use for "coloring in" their drawings, but they are not shown the unique 'watery' qualities that make them so beautiful.

We will even explore basic brushwork leading to Japanese techniques and brushes. Students will create landscape scenes learning color mixing, and techniques to add depth and movement to their paintings.

This 4 session class runs Mon. 6/16/25, Tues. 6/17/25, Wed. 6/18/25, & Fri. 6/20/25; 9:00am-10:30am.

(No classes in observance of Juneteenth, Thursday 6/19/25)

Full Course

Multi-Media Art Making (3rd-9th grade)

$225

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 16, 2025 at 11 am, runs for 1 week

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 3

4 Days:

Monday 6/16/25, Tuesday 6/17/25, Wednesday 6/18/35, & Friday 6/20/25

(No classes in observance of Juneteenth, Thursday 6/19/25)

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

This class is specifically designed for artists in 3rd through 9th grade).

Multi-media Art making .

Description coming soon.

This 4 session class will run on Mon. 6/16/25, Tues. 6/17/25, Wed. 6/18/25, & Fri. 6/20/25.; 11:00am-12:30pm.

 (No classes in observance of Juneteenth, Thursday 6/19/25)

Payment plan available: $100 deposit plus 2 payments of $62.50, paid every four weeks.

Sketching & Drawing 4 Day Summer Workshop (Adult Class)

$225

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 16, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 1 week

This class is specifically designed for adult artists.

4 Day Summer Workshop for Adults*:

  • Monday 6/16/25,
  • Tuesday 6/17/25
  • Wednesday 6/18/25
  • Friday 6/20/26
  • 1:00pm-3:00pm

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 workshop will run for 4 sessions; 6/16/25, 6/17/25, 618/25 & 6/20/25; 1:00pm-3:00pm. (*Please note: We will skip over 6/19/25 in honor of Juneteenth.)

Payment plan available: $100 deposit plus 2 payments of $62.50, paid every four weeks.

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night in Oil Pastels (Kindergarten through 5th Grade)

$225

with Michael Symber

Calendar Jun 23, 2025 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

SUMMER SESSION: WEEK 4

4 consecutive days: 6/23/25 - 6/26/25

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

This class is specifically designed for artists in Kindergarten through 5th grade.

Re-create Vincent Van Gogh's iconic Starry Night using oil pastels. 

More description coming soon.

This 4 session class runs on Mon. 6/23/25, Tues. 6/24/25, Wed.6/25/25, & Thurs.6/26/25; 9:00am-10:30am

 

Payment plan available: $100 deposit plus 2 payments of $62.50, paid every four weeks.




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