A great class for nature lovers! In this class you will learn different techniques and approaches for making beautiful pastel landscape painting. Pastel is the perfect medium to create a vibrant, colorful landscape image. Step-by-step I’ll walk you through pastel techniques and approaches. The goal is to capture both the feeling, form and colors found in nature. We’ll cover the basics of working with pastels, color theory, and a bit of art history. Each week we’ll work on a different image. We’ll start by looking at inspiring images from art history that demonstrate the techniques. Then I’ll demonstrate that week’s techniques and then you’ll try them out. This class is great for beginners/intermediate, but I'll work with more advanced students to help you hone your skills.

Materials not provided. Please bring the following supplies:

Pastel Paper: Assorted SENNELIER : PASTEL CARD (11"x14") or equivalent brand. If you have a favorite paper, feel free to use it. Link to article on pastel paper: https://finearttutorials.com/guide/best-pastel-paper/

Colors: We will use soft pastels for these classes. It's absolutely fine if you choose to use what you already have instead of buying a new set. In either case, you may want to buy more individual colors as you go along. Set of 24 soft pastels (Sennelier, Schminke, Art Spectrum, Holbein, Sennelier, Great American or the Dick Blick)

Detail Work: Pastel Pencils (Faber Castel Pitt Pastel pencils, Carbothello has a set of 12, Conte soft pastel pencils are also great also.) -OR- Hard/semihard pastels can also be used for finishing strokes and detail work. I recommend you purchase a small set of 24 or 36. Set of 24 hard pastels (Nupastel, CretaColor, Derwent, Holbein, Sargent or Sennelier)

Optional Materials:

Painters tape or artist tape (similar to masking tape, but with less tack)

Fixative or reworkable fixative (to set the pastels when done)

*Wet wipes

*Blending stumps or tortillons

*Small hand towel (old) or chamois cloth

*2b pencil and sketchbook

A live 4-week online series that pairs process painting with freewriting in a held, intimate circle — the brush opens the door, and the pen walks through it. Each 3-hour session builds on the last, deepening participants' relationship with their own creative intelligence across the arc of a month. Participants leave each session with something they made, something they wrote, and a growing trust in what arises when they stop trying to get it right.

Materials not provided. Please bring the following:

• A quiet and semi-private space with room to move

• Paint — any kind available at home (acrylic, watercolor, tempera, finger paint)

• Brushes — or fingers, a sponge, a fork, a cotton ball

• Paper or surface — larger is better; cardboard or poster board works well

• Water container and something to wipe brushes on

• A journal or notebook and a pen private or semi-private space with room to move

Optional: • Markers, crayons, oil pastels, collage materials

Open Print Lab is designed to be a creative exploration space! Open Print Lab is where our intergenerational printmakers, with an established practice, meet with others, share work, tips, and life's journeys! Enjoy access to 3 manual roll-top etching/relief presses for your self-directed projects! This studio session is not a regular instructional class, so we recommend beginners start with one of our various printmaking classes.

Folks are welcome to bring in anything that they wish, just so long as it goes back home with you! A Studio Monitor is available to answer questions and orient you on materials. Some materials are available at cost, so bring cash for additional supplies.

Friday Print Lab is where our intergenerational printmakers, with an established practice, meet with others, share work, tips, and life's journeys! Enjoy access to 3 manual roll-top etching/relief presses for your self-directed projects! This studio session is not a regular instructional class, so we recommend beginners start with one of our various printmaking classes.

Membership with The Drawing Studio is required for Print Lab participation. Membership dues allow us to keep cost low. 

Folks are welcome to bring in anything that they wish, just so long as it goes back home with you! A Studio Monitor is available to answer questions and orient you on materials. Some materials are available at cost, so bring cash for additional supplies.

This stand-alone class features a live model and will cover how to immediately begin to capture movement and drama with the energy that is expressed in the first three minutes of a pose.

We will explore the anatomical elements that comprise the skeleton and muscular systems to understand distribution of weight, directions of movement and tensions in each pose.

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio.

Art can come in all shapes and sizes, but there's something special about tiny treasures. In this class, students will explore painting on small canvases with acrylic paints. Students will learn basic techniques for working with acrylic on canvas and how to choose subjects that work well for small formats. At the end of class, students can take their tiny treasure home with them or can donate it for our annual Tiny Treasures Holiday Art Sale, which benefits The Drawing Studio's programs. 

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio. 

Aprender y Jugar is a community focused effort to explore the Spanish language, then expand its reach, by exposing folks through the arts - visual, music and story. This class invites young artists and their guardians to get familiar with Spanish vocabulary by listening and repeating words from a story.

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio.

No matter if you are interested in pastel, oils or acrylics or even colored pencils, color matters. Understanding how to make colors by mixing, understanding the harmony of colors and how color is used is critical to every artist. We will work with the color wheel, creating hues, values and harmonious combinations to explore how color can create great artwork.

Materials not provided. Please bring the following:

Water color paper

Gouache: Cadimum yellow, Phthalocyanine blue, Pyrrol Red, black