Fall Adult Classes

Mixed Media

Get Your Feet Wet With Acrylics—with Tracy Budd
1 day: Monday, September 9 • 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. • $80 (all supplies included)
Want to try your hand at acrylics without investing in the supplies? This is the class for you. Basic, and yes, we mean basic information about this ever so versatile medium that can be worked like watercolor and oil paint, all in the same painting! Class will include paint mixing, mediums, brushes, layering, texture making, and students will leave with a finished painting! No boring technique sheets here…! You will be hooked on this medium after you see the possibilities of painting with acrylics! Class size limited. Sign up NOW! Use form at left to contact Tracy with questions.

Critique Class—with Tracy Budd
4 classes: Mondays, September 16, 30 & October 14, 28 • 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. • $100
Come join a very important class for working artists, where we critique and investigate the power of composition, line, color, value, content, shape making and texture in successful art pieces. Sharing with a supportive group of artists, we will share, and problem solve our work and discuss the solutions and creative ideas for completing our “ideas”. All mediums; acrylic, oil, watercolor, mixed media and collage, make this a fun therapy class for artists!!!! Sign up NOW! Use form at left to contact Tracy with questions.

Creative Compositions for Still Life…on wooden panel—with Tracy Budd
8 classes: Mondays, September 16–November 4 • 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. • $270
Learn to create compelling compositions while creating a captivating still life on wooden panel. This class will involve arranging still life elements and cropping different compositions until we find interesting arrangements of shape and pattern. Texture and color will also be front and center here. Start thinking of your treasured objects that you would like to include in your masterpiece!  Use form at left to contact Tracy for a supply list.

Crisp Fall Images In Collage—with Tracy Budd
8 classes: Tuesdays, September 17–November 5 • 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. • $270
Collage is the most fun and creating papers, collecting papers, layering papers like paint colors can create the most incredible surface in mixed media. Collage is great for composition skills because we hold the pieces in our hands and move them around. Great for the creative brain! In this class we will use all things fall as our inspiration… warm vibrant colors, apples, crisp air… what does our beautiful change of season invoke in you? Be thinking on that and come join the fun! Use form at left to contact Tracy for a supply list.

Sacred Angels From Old Paintings (Three Week Rework of Old Paintings)—with Tracy Budd
3 classes: Mondays, November 18, 25 & December 2 • 10:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. • $125
A fun, fun class for the holidays and a great use of your unresolved paintings! Using all of our tricks, we will gesso, scrape, crop, turn, collage, embellish and superimpose the Angel image into these creative concoctions. Think Christmas gifts… the class, or the paintings! Come join the fun even if you don’t have old paintings… I’ll give you one!!!! Use form at left to contact Tracy for a supply list. Reserve your spot!

Winter Adult Classes

Watermedia

Changing the Local Color—Working a Painting For the Emotional Content in Acrylics—with Tracy Budd
4 classes: Mondays, January 13–February 3 • 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. • $135
Color is a powerful element in painting. It can affect the mood of a painting like no other element in the painting. By changing the color way, we change the emotional feeling of the painting, the feelings it conjures up and the story we are telling in our work. In this class, we will investigate the power of color and how it radically changes the feeling of the painting. We will come up with personal color ways that directly convey our feelings about our subjects. All subjects welcome, landscape or still life! Use form at left to contact Tracy for a supply list.

Essence of Gestural Shape—the Abstracted Figure—with Tracy Budd
4 classes: Mondays, February 10–March 3 • 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m • $135
The abstraction or simplification of the human form is interesting, complex and beautiful. With a gestural mark making we will explore the figure in painting by seeing the shapes in poses and posture, while incorporating them into the picture’s atmosphere. The gesture of the figure speaks volumes in the context of the painting. Use form at left to contact Tracy for a supply list.

Mixed Media

Critique Class, All Mediums—with Tracy Budd
4 classes: Mondays, January 13, 27, February 10, 24 • 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. • $100
Never underestimate the power of critique class…. To keep you motivated, help you problem solve your work, and inspire you with new ideas. Tracy will meet you right where your are in your work and the constructive feedback from all in class is invaluable. Not only do we learn how to manage our own painting journey, we learn from looking at others’ work in class. Join this inspiring class and keep your brushes wet! Use form at left to contact Tracy with questions.

Paper Mosaics/Acrylic and Collage—with Tracy Budd
6 classes: Tuesdays, January 14–February 18 • 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. • $210
Construct interesting, architectural designs with collage. Architecture through history can evoke feelings of grandeur, mystery, and generational connection. We will make papers, collect papers, tear and glue… Designs will be based on architectural elements and then fueled by the imagination of the artist to interpret time, space and emotional content. What will your “windows” of time reveal about you? Join this fun collage, mixed media class! The possibilities are endless! Class size limited so sign up early! Use form at left to contact Tracy for a supply list.