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!