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One Strange Bird @ 2124 W Division St, Chicago, IL
Never touched a brush? Haven't made art since high school? With easy to follow instruction, craft your next masterpiece! Open up to painting in this laid back step-by-step BYOB painting class. Join our talented teaching artists in working with acrylics to create a work on canvas ready to hang in your home. Learn tips and tricks to create textures, learn to layer, and add personal meaning to your work. Choose from one of our painting ideas and...
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn new techniques and strengthen existing ones – most importantly, understand how to build concepts and think like an artist. Ideal for AP art students or others serious in pursuing art with the goal of developing a portfolio and comprehensive body of work.
Linda Z's Sewing Center @ 1216 E Central Rd, Chicago, IL
Join us and Joyce Hughes, award winning thread painter, fiber artist & quilter for a "Play Day". Learn from Joyce how to transform Fabric Panels & Thread into Art Quilts.
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Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
This one-day workshop will cover a wide range of encaustic painting techniques from mark making, mixed media collage with wax, shellac burn, to textural impressionistic painting. All supplies are included and each student will leave with a minimum of one completed painting. The translucent, seductive qualities of layering wax will engage you to create unique one-of-a-kind paintings. Skill Level: All Levels
Learn to create strong landscape paintings from photographs using acrylic, oil or pastel. Leveraging the advantages and avoiding the pitfalls of working from photos, we will focus on the fundamentals. Exercises and projects in value, color, and composition will strengthen your work and confidence. Skill Level: All Levels Notes: This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class. You will be emailed...
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
What is abstract? Students are encouraged to work in series, giving each student the ability to evolve through investigation of their own work. You will be introduced to methods designed to answer your questions about abstraction, while enjoying the practice of personal expression. These new skills enrich and bring order to paintings, giving you the confidence to develop an exciting and cohesive body of work. Supply List Drawing materials,...
Manet proclaimed still life to be the "touchstone" of painting. Like Manet, we will study still life set-ups to learn how to see the world in terms of color relationships, shadow, light, and quality of edges. Composition, creating light effects, volume, and atmosphere will be discussed in group critiques. The course culminates in a 6-week portrait with props and a live model. This class is ideal for oil painting, but can be pursued in other media....
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn everything you have wanted to know about going abstract: including process, techniques and concepts behind making abstract art. This studio class will help you understand what abstraction is, and how to achieve it in your own work. Skill Level: All Levels In-person class (with reduced capacity) closely following Restore Illinois guidelines. Face coverings required throughout the duration of class. Includes...
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Gain confidence as you draw and paint portraits by exploring all its aspects in this studio class. The first approach will be through drawing, learning the morphology and anatomy of the face and the head, progressively building skills of portrait representation. Eventually you’ll learn how to shift from drawing into painting, discovering shading, tone and color applied to portrait. Through examples taken from different artists you’ll...
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Explore fun and traditional ways to apply pastels and charcoal to achieve realistic effects with still-life, flora and landscape as subjects. Start with a draw-along demonstration, focusing on the fundamentals of line and tone with individualized instruction. No prior experience or drawing ability necessary.
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Have you always wanted to take an art class, but worry that you aren’t artistic enough, or can’t draw a straight line? Make art and explore your creativity in a supportive, nonjudgmental environment. Over four weeks, we will explore multiple media, such as drawing, collage, painting, and fiber. No artistic experience necessary; all supplies will be included.
Create breathtaking still life paintings in oil or acrylic with depth and dimension. Paint from an online still life set-up, and learn to create your own arrangements from household items. Together, we will paint an underpainting using different shades of gray to serve as the foundation for you to add transparent color overlays called glazing. Follow me and create stunning paintings from your own home. Skill Level: All Levels Important Notes:...
Learn how to develop and paint an impressionistic landscape, starting with a simple composition as a foundation, then building layers of color using watercolor and pastel underpainting techniques. Each week students will receive a landscape photo to be used for the class demo during class time and we will paint together, critique, and share the painting process in real time. Skill Level: All Levels Notes: This interactive online class is presented...
Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL
This one-day workshop will introduce everyone to the soak/stain techniques of Helen Frankenthaler. Over the course of one day we will make our paints and pour our first steps onto the canvas. By the end of the session, learners will have the confidence to complete their paintings on their own. Skill Level: All Levels Click here for the instructor's recommended supply list.
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Brings focus on the importance of exploring materials that fuse and combine with the encaustic medium. Discover and develop the creative process using a variety of materials; the encaustic medium will be the “glue” that brings a multitude of materials together during this transformative workshop.
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Guided by a master landscape painter, create landscape paintings of any place around the country and world using your trips, magazines or memory as inspiration. Demos and group critiques will help you to gain confidence in this studio class. Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced Supply List: Oil Painting Tubes of Oil Paint Titanium white (a large tube) Ivory or mars black Cadmium yellow lemon Cadmium yellow light and deep Cadmium red light...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Paint in the studio from life to capture the freshness, colors, and beauty of selected flowers. Explore a looser, painterly fashion with emphasis on composition, color, and values. Still life allows you to achieve your desired outcome by controlling many of the external factors. A supply list will be sent.
This is a unique opportunity to sign up for a single day art class. This is designed for potential students who want to gain basic-level exposure to the visual arts at the Evanston Art Center. We want this to be a low stress, low commitment way to experience EAC offerings. One-day workshops in other disciplines are also available.
This is a unique opportunity to sign up for a single day art class. This is designed for potential students who want to gain basic-level exposure to the visual arts at the Evanston Art Center. We want this to be a low stress, low commitment way to experience EAC offerings. One-day workshops in other disciplines are also available.
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