Course Offerings

Decorative Painting | Color Mixing | Visual Relationships | Basic Drawing

Decorative Painting Overview
Instructor: Linda Brescia - Bio

This course will provide the student with basic skills using common tools and methods in the art of Decorative Painting. Through professional demonstration, class discussion, and hands on exercises, the student will produce sample finishes that can be executed on surfaces of their choice. Painting techniques include brush strokes, glazing, texturing, and layering. Patterning, color, and composition will be discussed, and applied to work. Exercises will be done on sample boards, leaving the student with the beginning of a decorative painting resource library.

6 week sessions

Tuesdays, September 18 – October 23, 2007
9:30am – 12:30 am, and 1:30pm – 4:30pm

Wednesdays September 19, - October 24, 2007
9:30am – 12:30pm
2:45pm – 5:30pm (students age 13 and up)

$200.00

Materials list will be provided at registration.

Color Mixing
Instructor: Linda Brescia - Bio

This full one day, content rich, hands on color mixing workshop is for anyone interested in increasing their color mixing skills dramatically, or learning how to do it the first time. The student will learn how to work with a limited palette of pigments utilizing a scientific process, to mix any color with ease, each and every time. If you can name it, you can make it. Amazingly, by the end of the session, color mixing will now become a thoughtful, and controlled thinking process. No more frustration trying to get just the right color, and no more wasting expensive products. Soon mixing will become second nature to you. No more mixing “mud” unless you want to!

Saturday, September 15, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
9:00am-5:00pm

$295.00

All product and materials provided.

Visual Relationships
Instructor: Linda Brescia - Bio

Bring your art making to a new level. In this interactive class, the students will create an inspirational journal using magazine clippings, fabrics, decorative papers etc, to use as a learning tool to explore “seeing” their environment as an artist does. While creating this body of work, the students will begin training their eyes to identify basic design elements and principles at work, as well as understanding basic color combinations that are visually appealing. Anyone interested in learning a refreshing new way to interpret their visual surroundings, and apply them to their own artwork, especially scrap booking, would enjoy this offering.

3-week sessions

Mondays September 17 – October 1, 2007
Mondays October 8 – October 22, 2007

2:45pm – 5:30pm (students age 13 and up)
6:30pm - 9: 30pm

$100.00

Materials list will be provided at registration.

Basic Drawing
Instructor: Suzanne Ahrern - Bio

Drawing skills are fundamental to the artist’s visual education. With the assistance of the instructor, the students will begin to see the environment around them with a keener eye. As their powers of observation sharpen, they will learn to translate what they see into drawings. Concepts that will be explored are line, form, value, proportion, perspective, and composition.

6 week sessions

Thursdays Sept 20 – October 25, 2007
9:30am – 12:30pm

$200.00

Materials list will be provided at registration