THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, May 1, 9am - 12pm
Model: Hannah
THIS SESSION WILL BE CLOTHED.
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
WRITING WORKSHOP: Construction Poetry
with Cynthia Breunlin
Saturday, May 3rd, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a Construction Poetry Workshop with Cynthia Breunlin. We will select poems and images in order to create playful constructions. This Workshop taps your emotional memory and helps you express a delightful combination of words and visuals even if you are reluctant to say you like poetry! The Art League Gallery is a perfect setting to promote your new creation--Construction Poetry!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday, May 4, 10am - 1pm
Model: Mark
THIS SESSION WILL BE CLOTHED.
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, May 8, 9am - 12pm
Model: Sean
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday, May 11, 10am - 1pm
Model: Em
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, May 15, 9am - 12pm
Model: Sunny
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday, May 18, 10am - 1pm
Model: Trevor
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, May 22, 9am - 12pm
Model: Andy
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Summer 1 - BEGINNING TO INTERMEDIATE DRAWING
with Jesse Howard
Tuesday, 10am - 12pm Advanced Registration Required.
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.
Summer 1 - WATERCOLOR BASICS
with Tony Armendariz
Wednesday, 10am-12pm. Advanced Registration Required.
Join us to learn the basics behind using soft pastels as a way to create pastel paintings with detail and depth.
Summer 1 - PASTEL PAINTING
with Mike Barett Kolasinski
Wednesday, 1pm-3pm. Advanced Registration Required.
Join us to learn the basics behind using soft pastels as a way to create pastel paintings with detail and depth.
Summer 1 - BEGINNING TO ADVANCED DRAWING
with Jesse Howard
Wedesday, 7pm - 9pm Advanced Registration Required.
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.
Summer 1 - Gelli Plate Printing
with Elaine Luther
Friday, 10am-12pm. Advanced Registration Required.
Learn to make rich, layered, colorful prints using a Gelli Plate monoprinting pad. You can use almost anything to make a print - from a feather or a flower to a pair of jeans or even Lego! You'll also make your own reusable stencils, with no drawing needed. Choose to print on paper, fabric, or try both!
Summer 1 - Experimental Painting: Color, Form, and Meaning
with Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez
Friday, 4pm-6pm. Advanced Registration Required.
Stemming from conceptions grounded in abstraction, this course for beginning to intermediate painters will include extensive experimentation with techniques, materials, and mediums through individual painting dilemmas.
Summer 1 - EXPLORING OIL PAINTING
with Julie Sulzen
***THIS IS A FOUR WEEK SESSION***
Thursday, 1pm - 3pm. Advanced Registration Required.
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.
Summer 1 - EXPLORING OIL PAINTING
with Julie Sulzen
***THIS IS A FOUR WEEK SESSION***
Thursday, 6:30pm - 8:30pm. Advanced Registration Required.
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.
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday April 27, 10am - 1pm
Model: Mia
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday April 24, 9am - 12pm
Model: DaLawn
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
S2 - PASTEL PAINTING
with Mike Barett Kolasinski
Wednesday, 1pm-3pm. Advanced Registration Required.
Join us to learn the basics behind using soft pastels as a way to create pastel paintings with detail and depth.
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday April 17, 9am - 12pm
Model: Deandrea
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday April 13, 10am - 1pm
Model: Joshua
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday April 10, 9am - 12pm
Model: Ryan
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday April 6, 10am - 1pm
Model: Emily
This is a clothed model session. 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday April 3, 9am - 12pm
Model: Isabella
This is a clothed model session. 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday March 30, 10am - 1pm
Model: Tony
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, March 27, 9am - noon
Model: Holden
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday March 23, 10am - 1pm
Model: Deandrea
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, March 20, 9am - noon
Model: August
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday March 16, 10am - 1pm
Model: Bobby
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
FREE Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
As part of our annual figure and portrait exhibition we are offering a rare free opportunity for artists to draw a clothed model up in the studio during the opening reception,
on Saturday, March 15th, from 1 pm - 4 pm.
Spots are limited and if you want to draw it is a free opportunity but also open to spectators attending the reception.
Spaces are limited to 10, so
register for free for your spot.
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, March 13, 9am - noon
Model: Jason
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Invisible Ties: Assembling Memory into Presence
Monday, March 10, 10am-1pm
In this one-day workshop, participants will explore identity and memory through the meditative process of assemblage. Using materials like paper, watercolors, thread, wire, and textiles, they will transform personal memories into layered, tactile quilt-like panels. This hands-on experience encourages participants to focus on elements that resonate with their stories, creating a symbolic artwork that merges memory and material. Advanced Registration Required.
Kintsugi for Beginners
Sunday March 9th, 4pm - 6pm
Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese art form in which gold is used to repair broken ceramics. The practice of Kintsugi highlights the break rather than erasing it and emphasizes that the break is what makes the ceramics more valuable and beautiful. In this beginner’s workshop, participants will learn the basic technique of Kintsugi on a small porcelain plate or a small ceramic plate to understand the fundamentals of this process.
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday March 9, 10am - 1pm
Model: Isabella
3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, March 6, 9am - noon
Model: Athena
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday March2, 10am - 1pm
Model: Michael
This is a clothed model session. 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
Visual Poetics : Image Transfers & Encaustic Layering
Saturday March 1st 11am-2pm
In this class, participants will explore poetics in the visual language of encaustics; its haunting ability to layer and encapsulate imagery, pigment, and texture. Students will be asked to consider materials beyond the surface level, carefully examining how color, images, and mark making convey subtle meaning. This workshop will focus on basic encaustic techniques, image transfers onto wax, and studio safety.
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, February 27, 9am - noon
Model: Baylee
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday February 23, 10am - 1pm
Model: Holden
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
EXTENSION - Oracle Card Making with Mixed Media Workshop
with Jackie Lakely
Saturday February 22nd from 10am-4pm
This is an extension of the previous Oracle Card workshop for those who participated in December.
Oracle cards mean different things to different people, but I see them as intuitive, uplifting messages to your future self, or visual ideas/messages/thoughts that you like to have around you.
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, February 20, 9am - noon
Model: Olivia
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday February 16, 10am - 1pm
Model: Luisa
Three-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, February 13, 9am - noon
Model: Mark
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
SUNDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Sunday February 9, 10am - 1pm
Model: De’Eric
Three-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!
THURSDAY Figure Drawing Non-Instructional with Model
Thursday, February 6, 9am - noon
Model: Emily
This is the traditional OPAL figure session for drawing from a live model. These are 3-hour, non-instructional figure drawing sessions. Work on your figure-drawing skills at your own self-directed pace!