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 class introduces fluid painting as a contemporary approach to abstraction, using acrylic pour techniques to explore movement, color relationships, and composition. Students will learn how to manipulate paint through controlled and intuitive processes, balancing intention with unpredictability. This is a practice in surrender.

Through guided demonstrations and individual exploration, participants will create original works that emphasize flow, layering, and visual rhythm. This class is open to all levels and supports both technical skill development and personal expression within an abstract framework.

Materials are provided by The Drawing Studio. 

In Drawing Fundamentals II, you will explore natural and human-made subjects in greater depth, emphasizing composition and mark-making. Understanding and mastering foundational skills will inspire you to see and respond to the world around you with intensified interest and curiosity.

Please note: Drawing Fundamentals I or permission from the instructor required upon registration.

Materials are not included; please bring the following supply list: 

Drawing Paper Pad approx. 16x20 or 18x24

Sketch Pad approx. 9x12 *Single sheet of toned paper, mid-tone neutral (alternate: large pad of toned paper)

Graphite: HB, 2B, 4B

Charcoal: vine, compressed, white “charcoal” (Conte OK), 

Erasers: kneaded, art gum (optional: plastic eraser in “pen” form, ie: Factis), Chamois cloth (optional) *or instructor provides and is reimbursed by student

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.

If you are interested in taking your oil painting skills to the next level, this class is for you. This class builds on foundational knowledge of oil painting and will cover advanced color theory, composition, and brushwork using complex subjects, landscapes, still life arrangements, and the human form. 

Advanced color theory will deal with creating sophisticated palettes using different color schemes like split complementary, analogous colors and using color temperature to create form. Composition refers to the sophisticated arrangement of visual elements—like line, shape, color, value, and space—within a painting as it related to the principles of design, like balance, emphasis, rhythm, unity and contrast. Knowledge of advanced color theory and composition can help students refine their oil painting skills.

Materials not provided. Please bring the following:

- Oil paints: Cadmium red, quinacridone rose, cadmium lemon Yellow, yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, phthalo blue, titanium white and burnt umber to start.

- Brushes: flat 6 or 8, filbert 4 and/or 6 and liner. Sizes will vary depending on the size of your painting.

- Brush washer. Palette knife. A palette. Gamsol (solvent), a mason jar for storing used Gamsol. Two 8x10 panel or canvas

In this 6 - week class, we will learn to use location and shape of the ribcage and pelvis 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. There will be printed handouts from three separate Anatomy books, for additional assistance to take home. 

Materials not provided. Please bring the following:

18"x24" 80lbs drawing/sketch pad

9”x12” 64lbs  charcoal pad

Newsprint pad

kneaded eraser

plastic eraser

pencil sharpener

soft vine charcoal

graphite pencil for sketching 2B or No. 21

white & 3 black charcoal pencil 2B, 4B and 6B

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.

Welcome to “Beyond 27 Seconds, the How, What, and Why of Looking at Art”.  our NEW and FREE monthly Community Forum where we look at, talk about, and create art!  Do you know that the average time a person views an art piece is a mere 27 seconds?  In that time one may decide “I like it” ,“I don’t get it” “It’s good.” or maybe “My 6-year-old could do that.” But what does one really comprehend in such a short amount of time? In this fun and lively forum, we will learn how to better engage with, enjoy more deeply, and truly appreciate art – and the artist!  Each session, we will focus on such topics as: process, genre, medium, or group of artists, movement, or time period, with the goal of understanding how and why artists create and how we can view art in new ways to better interpret, connect with, and appreciate what we see! Each month one of our teaching artists will share curated works of art to lead the forum, with the first hour exploring concepts like   “What makes a piece of art effective?”  “Do I need to know “what” I am looking at to appreciate it?” “How did they do that?”  Once inspired, we will create a simple, yet exciting art piece relating to the topic of the month.  Join us each month, August through November at The Drawing Studio.  In December, we will have a field trip to a local museum to view real art “in the wild” and practice our new skills of seeing and engaging!