Learn the basics of oil painting in just a few weeks. This course will explore, light, color, tone and composition and various styles of painting. Students will experiment with brush strokes and color mixing to create small and medium sized works.

In this class we experiment with various ways to work with both charcoal and ink wash to create beautiful and harmonious landscape compositions without the use of color. 

Christine will send a list of supplies to bring prior to the start of the course.

This course offers painters with a practice to improve their skill through critique and insight. Each week begins with a critique that focuses on light, composition and color and then opens to painting with deep, thoughtful feedback from Stephanie. This course can be taken again and again.

Students bring their own supplies.

This course is located in our cheerful, yellow historic bunkhouse which once housed the individuals who built the railroad tracks.

Flip a switch and the entire world becomes the world of your imagination. In this course the emphasis is on interacting with the seen world, seeing what YOU see and interacting with it. Develop the process and allow yourself to see what you see AS you draw or paint and build your own personal LANGUAGE that comes out of living in the moment of your creations. It’s not simply about what you want to say but also about what is the work saying? Can you listen to its voice while you are working on it? Whatever materials you bring along for the journey are fair game. This class emphasizes process, experimentation, and the merging of the imagination with the visual world around us. You will build a personalized “mark and color toolbox” through exercises in line, rhythm, pressure, material exploration and more. Over time, you will learn how to trust your instincts, develop visual sensitivity, and cultivate a uniquely personal, meaningful practice..This class is for students who are ready to discover the core of their creativity and ready to develop a truly unique body of work.Open to all levels. Skills for success include curiosity and a willingness to explore.This is a mixed media class: oil, acrylic, wax pencils, oil sticks, pastels, charcoal are some of the possibilities. Painting on paper is encouraged as an affordable way to experiment. Canvas and panel and other materials are acceptable also.

This class skips Thanksgiving week

When is white not white? When you are painting. In this class, open to all levels of experience, we will create two paintings, a still life of all white objects and a snowscape. We will practice seeing values and color, building shapes and space, and basic oil painting techniques.

This class will delve into the depths of creating a unique visual expression of the human being. Each of us is unique - how do we resonate with this uniqueness with color, mark, symbol and line? 

This is not a class in realism, but how to use visual materials to get in touch with and express all that is unique about a person. We will explore the portrait as expression of soul, mind, and emotion through symbol, color, mark, and line. There will be plenty of opportunity to draw the face but the emphasis will be on unearthing the unique qualities of a person through imaginative exploration.

This course offers painters with a practice to improve their skill through critique and insight. Each week begins with a critique that focuses on light, composition and color and then opens to painting with deep, thoughtful feedback from Stephanie. This course can be taken again and again.

Students bring their own supplies.

This course is located in our cheerful, yellow historic bunkhouse which once housed the individuals who built the railroad tracks.