Painting and Drawing
Explore the beautiful world of watercolors and gain confidence in your skills. You'll receive technical information, individualized instruction, and experience engaging demonstrations. Learn essential techniques like brush handling, color theory, washes, glazes, and textural effects, and explore a variety of painting styles from realism to abstract.
#35348, Truax-Protective Services Building, 9/11-10/30, Wednesday, 9 AM-12 PM Instructor: Lee Schauer
Dive into the depths of watercolor mastery with our advanced class! Explore complex techniques like wet-on-wet blending, glazing, and color lifting to create stunning depth and luminosity in your paintings. Develop your own style under expert guidance, mastering composition and color theory for expressive, captivating artworks. You should have completed Beginning Watercolor or equivalent to take this course.
#36855, Truax-Protective Services Building, 9/11-10/30, Wednesday, 1-4 PM Instructor: Lee Schauer
Delve into the art of acrylic painting, tailored for beginners or those seeking to refresh their skills. Uncover the secrets of acrylic painting materials, color theory, form, and composition. Spark your creativity through demonstrations and hands-on painting, and develop your ability to view the world through an artistic lens.
#35426, Truax-Protective Services, 9/11-10/30, Wednesday, 5:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Lee Schauer
Unlock the full potential of acrylics in our advanced painting class! Delve into intricate layering, texture creation, and advanced color mixing techniques to bring your visions to life with depth and vibrancy. Refine your skills in composition and visual storytelling while exploring diverse styles and subjects. You must have taken Beg. Acrylic, All levels Acrylic or have equivalent experience.
#36854, Truax-Protective Services Building, 9/12-11/7, Thursday, 5:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Lee Schauer
This class will introduce basic techniques so you can create accurate drawings as you work from observation. The skills and concepts presented will provide an initial framework for your talent, build confidence in your ability, and amplify your creativity.
#35242, Truax-Main Building, 9/18-11/6, Wednesday, 6-8:30 PM Instructor: Thanasi Papapostolou
#35244, Truax-Main Building, 9/30-11/18, Monday, 6-8:30 PM Instructor: Selia Salzsieder
Drawing the human figure is considered by centuries of artists and art academies to be the indispensable foundation of the creative arts. This class will introduce the students to the basic principles of figure structure and expression. Progressing sequentially, the student learns how to “see” human form and to render it effectively. This class is a must both for beginners and for those who are seeking to further their understanding and perception of the human figure in drawing, painting, or digital animation. Students will work from a live model and instructor demonstrations. Basic drawing materials are required. Only students the age of 18 or older are allowed to enroll in figure drawing.
#35326, Truax-Main Building, 9/23-11/11, Monday, 6-9 PM Instructor: Thanasi Papapostolou
Explore the vibrant world of oil pastels, where you'll learn key techniques such as blending, layering, texturing, sgraffito, and scumbling. Perfect for both beginners and experienced artists, this course covers essential oil pastel techniques, enabling you to create striking art.
#37174, Truax-Protective Services Building, 9/26-11/7, Thursday, 1-4 PM Instructor: Lee Schauer
For beginners or continuing students refining their watercolor skills, this class will be filled with technical information, demonstrations, individual instruction, and lots of time to paint. Learn brush handling, color theory and watercolor techniques such as washes, glazes, and textural effects. Choose subject matter from photos, book references or still lifes as the class explores painting styles from realism to abstract.
#35192 Truax-Protective Services, 10/1-11/5, Tuesday, 6-9 PM Instructor: Alfredo Rodriguez
#35196 Truax-Protective Services, 11/12-12/17, Tuesday, 6-9 PM Instructor: Alfredo Rodriguez
Capture the essence of your furry friend in our watercolor pet portrait class! Over four weeks, master techniques for depicting fur texture, expressive eyes, and lifelike features. Learn color mixing for realistic tones and create personalized backgrounds that complement your pet's personality. Prior watercolor experience strongly recommended.
#36845, Truax-Protective Services Building, 10/14-9/4, Monday, 5:30-8:30 PM Instructor: Lee Schauer
See digital art in a whole new light. This class is a beginner level exploration of the tools, theory, techniques and tricks of working with digital devices and creative software to create digital artworks. Learn to produce digital paintings and conceptual art by applying traditional art skills in a virtual environment. Required: An iPad with apple pencil, or Android tablet with a stylus, OR desktop/laptop computer with a Wacom or other drawing tablet attached. The primary app we will use for the class is Procreate for iPad, but participants can also use other software including Sketchbook, Krita, Painter, or Photoshop.
#35166, Online Live, 10/16-11/9, Wednesday, 6-9 PM Instructor: Justin King
Character Design will have students developing and creating their own characters that could be used for comics, video games, or animation. This course is intended to teach students how to use character design to tell a story and how to create unique and original characters. We will discuss shape language and how color impact a character’s design and create a wide variety of characters that can fit different roles in a story. Youth Ages 14-18.
#36787, Truax-Protective Services Building, 9/16-10/21, Monday, 6-8 PM Instructor: Jessica Ellenbecker
Introduction to Traditional Drawing is a class designed to help students learn the basics of observational drawing. We will utilize mostly pencils and colored pencils and practice using the Elements of Art to improve drawing skills. Youth Ages 14-18.
#36788, Truax-Protective Services Building, 10/28-12/2, Monday, 6-8 PM Instructor: Jessica Ellenbecker