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.

No Class On 11/27

Develop a personal vision, hone your unique artistic path, and gain fluency in the language of drawing.  In this 5- week Drawing Fundamentals III, we will focus on using ink and wash media in particular, to depict landscape subject matter. Explore new landscape compositions using the fluidity of ink and wash values each session!

Drawing Fundamentals I and II required. 

Supplies are not included. Please bring the following materials:

- Soft vine and compressed charcoal

- Paper and magazine scraps, glue sticks, and scissors

- Watercolor paper and watercolor ballpoint, and other ink pens

This stand-alone class features a live nude model and will cover how to immediately begin to capture shape using a limited color palette of oil paints. The alla prima technique is a wonderful way at a first attempt at this medium and subject matter. You'll get instruction on using value to convey directions of movement and tensions in the pose.

Materials provided by The Drawing Studio. 

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!

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 feel intimidated by the thought of figure painting live nude models in oils, this class is for you.

We'll go over fundamentals of oil painting, like learning to mix color, and organizing a limited color palette. Then learn to immediately begin to capture shape by converging shapes to “build” the figure. You'll get instruction on using value to convey directions of movement and tensions in the pose. This class focuses on approaches that give us our first understanding of how to think of three- dimensional form as we learn to pain it on a two-dimensional surface.

Materials not included. Please bring the following supplies:

- Oil paints: yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, alizarine crimson, 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 mid-sized panel or canvas

Assemblage is a three-dimensional art form initiated by artists of the early Twentieth Century. In this course, we will use an assortment of materials including found objects to create small-scale three-dimensional works of art. We will focus on the creative process, while we explore the elements of visual art such as composition, scale, proportion, color, hierarchy, and balance. A primary goal is to build confidence in one’s art practice. This is a great opportunity to make creative use of the various and sundry objects you have collected over time. Scavengers absolutely welcome.

Materials not provided. Please bring the following:

Found objects

paint

paper

odds and ends

substrate

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.