Adult Art Classes
5 Week Adult Class Sessions meet one day a week for 5 weeks unless otherwise indicated below
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Important Dates:
2026
Winter 1: January 4 - February 7th
Winter 2: February 8th - March 14th
Spring 1: March 15th - April 18th
Spring 2: April 19th - May 23rd
Spring 3: May 24th - June 27th
Summer 1: June 28th - August 1st
Summer 2: August 2nd - September 5th
Fall 1: September 6th - October 10th
Fall 2: October 11th - November 14th
Fall 3: November 15th - December 19th
Please read OPAL’s Registration Class Policies and Studio Code of Conduct
Please do not bring food or alcoholic beverages into the studio. Individual water bottles are permitted
with Brianna Perry
Monday, 4:00 - 6:00pm
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Treating collage, assemblage and chance as open-ended approaches, this course is designed for artists interested in furthering mixed media exploration in their personal work. Beginning with materials drawn from their own households, students will use process-driven methods to explore extended definitions of image-making, painting (acrylics, oils, and watercolors), collage, and drawing. Emphasis is placed on low-tech, hands-on, chance-driven, and improvisational techniques in the contemporary fields of painting, assemblage, and collage. We will also explore and investigate contemporary and art-historical approaches to collage, assemblage, the found object, and the ongoing relevance of these techniques to artists working across and between mediums.
with Jesse Howard
Tuesday, 10am - 12pm
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Learn fundamental drawing techniques and expand existing skills in a variety of media to discover individual drawing style. The focus will be on constructing composition and linear perspective with an emphasis on value plane and the use of line. Students will learn how to bring clarity and consistency to their subject matter.
with Jan Zhou
Tuesday, 1pm - 3pm
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Ever found yourself hesitating in front of a blank page?
In this foundational course, you will build sensitivity, control, and confidence through the simplicity of line. We begin with the most essential skill— your relationship with the pencil, developing a responsive connection between eye, hand, and mind. Through guided exercises inspired by traditional Chinese line practice, you will explore variations of pressure, speed, and rhythm to create lines that feel alive and intentional. Over time, you will learn to draw forms through motion, where line becomes a natural extension of your movement.
with Julie Sulzen
Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:30pm
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Students will explore the fundamentals of oil painting with an introduction to materials and by practicing skills of observation, methods of drawing, explorations of color theory, and techniques of brushwork. Utilizing carefully designed still life arrangements, fundamentals of painting such as light, shape, value, and edges will be covered. Demonstrations and discussions are designed to encourage individual progress as well as general painting guidance.
with Tony Armendariz
Wednesday, 10am-12pm
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Learn a range of watercolor techniques using both wet and dry pigments, suitable for artists of all experience levels.
with Mike Barret Kolasinski
Wednesday, 1pm-3pm
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Join us to learn the essential techniques behind using soft pastels as a way to create richly detailed, dimensional pastel paintings. Open to all skill levels.
with Jesse Howard
Wednesday, 7pm - 9pm
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The focus will be on constructing composition and linear perspective with an emphasis on value plane and the use of line. Students will learn how to bring clarity and consistency to their subject matter.
with Jackie Lakely
Friday, 1pm - 3pm
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This is a class that introduces the same concepts in different ways for each session and is for all levels of skill and experience. Emphasis is put on process over product, and we will almost always work in multiples in order to try different applications of each week’s lesson. We will work with still life arrangements and your imagination to create narrative work, as well as intuitive world-building based on combining materials as you go.
with Jackie Lakely
Friday, 4pm - 6pm
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This is a class that introduces the same concepts in different ways for each session and is for all levels of skill and experience. Emphasis is put on process over product, and we will almost always work in multiples in order to try different applications of each week’s lesson. We will work with still life arrangements and your imagination to create narrative work, as well as intuitive world-building based on combining materials as you go.
with Richard Sheppard
THIS IS A 3-WEEK COURSE: 4/27, 5/4, & 5/11
Monday, 6:30 - 8:30pm
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Perspective is often considered the ‘bones’ of a painting or a drawing but is also said to be one of the hardest things to learn about drawing. Learning the lingo, such as horizon lines, vanishing points, and foreshortening, can be challenging but not impossible to learn. This class will help bridge the technical concepts of perspective and simplify how to translate our three-dimentional world onto a two-dimentional surface. The focus will be on urban landscapes and interior spaces. Obtaining a good understanding of perspective will provide a foundation for more accurate and believable sketches and paintings.
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