Painting For All

What are bath bombs? Bath bombs are a fusion of organic ingredients and essential oils that when coming into contact with your bath or water create an explosion of creative colours, oils and fragrances to help provide a relaxing and aromatic aura instilling a sense of fun into your bath. Are there different types of Bath Bombs? Here at Color Cocktail,...

Following registration, email us at [email protected] a high resolution image of your pet. We will prepare a stencil for you, with a sketch of your pet. When you come to class, you'll receive your individually prepared canvas and everything else you need and have our instructor there to guide you!

PAINTING II The Painting II course is open to all returning students who took at least one of the introductory painting courses, as well as for those who have previous experience outside the studio. This course focuses on developing your skill, personal language and body of work. DRAWING II This intermediate level drawing course will...

Explore your own expressive style through the practice and discipline of painting, and learn the fundamentals of color blending & balance. Create your own abstract, surreal, and representational paintings, as you learn the basics of painting with water based paints.  Whether you prefer to paint still life or abstract expression, you will...

Are you thinking about tapping to your creativity? Sip and Make! We provide all the art materials BYOB In a relaxed, social setting, a professional artist will guide the class step-by-step through replicating the nights featured painting Age: 18+ (No Kids on Fridays And Saturdays(after 4:30 PM!))

Brushes, bottles and BOYS! Good luck holding back the blushing when you see all the buzz our SEXY male models have in store! Give yourself and your friends the ULTIMATE night of naughty fun! Pick your angle, draw the dangle, and get entangled in what’s sure to be one of your most memorable nights to come!  No art experience required!...

Are you thinking about tapping to your creativity? Sip and Make! We provide all the art materials BYOB In a relaxed, social setting, a professional artist will guide the class step-by-step through replicating the nights featured painting Age: 18+ (No Kids on Fridays And Saturdays(after 4:30 PM!)) Our events are all BYOB. You can bring your beverage...

Draw and paint inside or outside the Lincoln Park Conservatory and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Work in watercolors and watercolor pencils, drawing mediums, or acrylics. Focus includes instruction on creating quick thumbnail sketches, composition, and color.

Explore the building blocks to create a vibrant summer landscape painting. You will learn to extract your vision from the landscape, beginning with black and white sketches and progressing to full color compositions.  Emphasis will be on color, composition, gesture, form, value, and line. Color mediums can include oil, acrylic, pastel, gouache,...

Choose from our menu of pottery, select your paints and sponges then roll up your sleeves and have a go!  Everything is included. One piece of pottery, paint, tools, glazing, and firing. We have a wide selection of ready-made 'blank' bisque pieces for you to enjoy painting and decorating. You select the item you would like to paint from our...

Students will create dynamic, multi-layered compositions with a variety of materials: watercolors, acylics ink, images, found objects, and pastels. Techniques explored will include photo transferring, collage, printing, drawing, painting, and assemblage. Emphasis is on conceptual practice and personal process. Materials fee:  $30   ...

This camp will experiment with the basic techniques of watercolors and ink painting! Campers will learn the basic flat washes, shading, transparent glazes, wet-on-wet, dry brush, and the development of color studies.  Through these basic skills and exercises campers will jump-start their creativity to create their own paintings. They will explore...

Create both vibrant and subdued paintings with strong compositions using watercolor tubes and watercolor pencils.  Instruction includes watercolor techniques- applying watercolor washes, painting wet in wet, and painting without a sketch.  Learn about staining and lightfast colors. The instructor will provide a variety of still-lifes. We...

Drawing on different gardens for inspiration, you will learn how to compose and incorporate helpful watercolor techniques. Each week will feature a special area of focus, including textures, values, color, and the techniques of painting subjects in motion. With watercolor demonstrations given to visualize the processes, all levels of artists are welcome. ...

This multi-level course provides students with a solid understanding of the technical and practical aspects of oil painting. Formal and cognitive concerns of image-making are addressed using various subjects such as the still life, model and landscape. Drawing experience is recommended. (Bring 18” x 24” (or larger) piece of drawing paper and...

Explore figure drawing fundamentals: proportions, gesture, anatomy, line, shape, composition and mass/value, while working in dry media such as graphite, charcoal, and pastel. Study both classical and contemporary examples that range from Durer to Diebenkorn. Work with the live model during half of the sessions, using casts for the other half. For...

Using still life and reference material, students will create drawings and paintings using a variety of pens–dip pens, micron pens, brush pens, watercolors, Dr. Martin Watercolors, and brushes on various papers. Required Materials: Click here for the instructor's recommended supply list. NOTE: You do not need to purchase all here. Select a...

Designed for the student who wishes to pursue figure painting or drawing in greater depth with two- and three-week poses allowing for thorough study of the model. Painting students will be encouraged to draw with the brush in full color. Drawing students can work with charcoal, conté crayon, pencil or pastel. Every class will start with 30 minutes...

This course offers a strong introduction to painting in which students learn about color mixing, painting techniques, and composition. Each student receives one-on-one instruction and everyone is encouraged to develop personal themes.  The focus of the class is exclusively Acrylics. Students will learn the specifics of this very rich technique,...

For beginners: This class will initiate you to oil paint and oil painting. The first approach will be the discovery of the paint and its specificities. Learn about paint’s composition and properties and how to use of it. Then discover the mediums and additives that need to be used with oils and learn basic old master’s techniques such as Van Eyck...