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Upcoming Events
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Thursday, February 11th, 5-9pm
Join us for our Winter Back to School Blick Madness event! Stop by the store from 5-9pm for snacks and activities. Have your caricature drawn, attend a "how to" drawing demonstration, and enter our raffle for a chance to win tickets to see Dr. Dog in concert on February 12th at Newport Music Hall. Plus, enter to win $1,000 of your choice of oil, watercolor, or acrylic paints from Winsor & Newton or Liquitex! Work by several local artists will also be on display. Contact the store for additional details.
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Classes
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January 6th-February 24th, 6-8:30pm every Wednesday night
(There will be no class on February 3rd or 10th.)
Instructor: Amy Flowers
Fee: $120
Join us for this six-week session and learn everything that watercolor can do! This medium is fast and easy to learn. The class will cover color mixing, washes, and brushstrokes, then move on to playing with salt, alcohol, plastic wrap, and more fabulous experimental textures and backgrounds on a variety of watercolor papers. Students will learn to put it all together to create paintings from still life using both abstract and realistic styles.
Paper and experimental materials will be supplied. Students must supply their own brushes, watercolor paint, and a palette. Contact the store regarding class supplies or other questions.
Pre-registration is required. Call or stop by the store to sign up. The class runs a total of 6 weeks.
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January 26th-March 2nd, 6-8:30pm every Tuesday night
Instructor: Kelly Garvin
Fee: $100
Classes will focus on fundamentals while working from real life and photos. Mediums covered will include soft pastels, watercolor, and acrylic on different surfaces. Students will be introduced to various techniques on image transferring and compostition.
Pre-registration is required. Call or stop by the store to sign up. The class runs a total of 6 weeks.
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January 30th-March 6th, 10am-12pm every Saturday morning
Instructor: Kelly Garvin
Fee: $100
These classes will offer an introduction to the fundamentals of drawing. Instruction will focus on line, shape, value, and perspective.
Pre-registration is required. Call or stop by the store to reserve your spot. The class runs a total of 6 weeks.
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Friday, February 12th, 6-8:30pm
Instructor: Amy Flowers
Fee: $38
Learn to create an amazing textural ground for your collage work! Students will start with a stretched canvas, then work with matte medium, newspapers, tissue, cheesecloth and gesso to build a dimensional surface.
Explore using acrylic paint to make your surface really pop. Add collage ephemera and stamped imagery for a work that has depth and interest and looks great hanging on your studio wall. Once you learn how fun and easy it is to "build" a canvas, no surface will be safe!
Pre-registration is required. Call or stop by the store to reserve your spot! All supplies are included.
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Friday, February 26th, 6-8:30pm
Instructor: Amy Flowers
Fee: $38
More fun with wild collage surface tricks! Starting with a wood board surface, students will layer handmade papers and ephemera for the base, then coat it with clear gesso. Add extra dimension with light molding paste and stencils — you'll still be able to see the original paper collage base. Create a focal point by embedding your own original photo into the gesso. Now you're ready to add paint and stamp imagery to pull the piece together!
Pre-registration is required. Call or stop by the store to reserve your spot! Please bring several of your own photos printed on photo paper (glossy or matte finish) to this class. All other supplies are included.
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March 4th-April 8th, 6-8:30pm every Thursday night
Instructor: Kelly Garvin
Fee: $90
Learn the fundamentals of oil painting working from real life and photos. Classes will cover basic principles, including stroke, color mixing, value, perspective, and composition. Students will explore various ways in which the medium is handled in landscape, portrait, still life, and abstract paintings.
Pre-registration is required. Call or stop by the store to reserve your spot.
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November 20th-January 8th (Part I), 10am-12pm every Friday morning
January 15th-February 12th (Part II), 10am-12pm every Friday morning
(There will be no classes held during the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's.)
Instructor: Christine D'Epiro
Fee: $90 per session, or $175 for both Parts I and II
Have you always wanted to learn how to draw but felt intimidated? Do you want to learn the basics of composition or color? Students will learn several techniques to approach drawing by observation as well as be introduced to a variety of drawing media. A one day workshop explaining how to draw a realistic face is included as part of the program.
Pre-registration is required. Call or stop by the store to reserve your spot. Each part runs 5 weeks.
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