Painting students are part of an intense working environment where they can pursue their own direction. Painting courses and workshops encourage diverse practice and foster independent creative thinking and making. Students are part of a unique learning environment that allows for independent thought as well as collaboration and critique.

In this introductory course students will learn the foundations of drawing including line, proportion, shape, gesture, blocking, value, mark-making, and space through a variety of assignments that emphasize drawing from observation and iterative invention. Through live Zoom sessions students will work from the figure, landscape and through still-life set-ups they are prompted … Read more

Start Date

01/22

Meeting Day

Mondays

End Date

03/11

Faculty

Janet Loren Hill

Time

6:30pm–9:30pm

Credits

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Pencil drawing of portrait of a masculine presenting person

Sponges, bristle and tooth brushes, water soluble crayons, markers, and pencils break watercolor’s reputation as an unforgiving or precise medium. From people, portraits or street reportage to fashion sketching to cars, fruit, and landscape, our search for color surfaces in marks, lines, and shapes. Techniques to suit your visual interpretations … Read more

Start Date

01/25

Meeting Day

Thursdays

End Date

03/07

Faculty

Alex Rheault

Time

6pm–9pm

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This is a seven week course starts with quick exercises working from a still life on week 1 and then working from a live model on weeks 2 and 3. The course will shift into more independent work starting Week 4 through 7. The participants will respond to prompts and … Read more

Start Date

01/27

Meeting Day

Saturdays

End Date

03/09

Faculty

Jennifer Pochinski

Time

10am–1pm

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Painting of 7 people eating and talking at a table

In this online course students will learn the basics of oil painting including paint mixing, palette construction, brush techniques, canvas/board preparation, safety measures, and more. Students will also learn the foundations of painting’s visual language like color, composition, texture and hierarchy. Over the course of the term students will work … Read more

Start Date

03/18

Meeting Day

Mondays

End Date

05/06

Faculty

Janet Loren Hill

Time

6:30pm–9:30pm

Credits

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Oil painting of portrait of a man wearing a red shirt looking down.