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The Richmond Art Center is a leading visual arts center in the East Bay, offering diverse arts experiences to people of all ages. They provide hands-on learning, well-equipped studios, traveling art programs, and rotating exhibitions featuring both emerging and established Bay Area artists.
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Beginning Screenprinting
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
Screen-printing is a versatile print media, with the ability to print on many different surfaces, while creating multiple prints from a single screen. Following an overview of basic principles and mechanics, students will be introduced to different ways of making stencils. Starting with a hands on paper stencil, they will then create hand-drawn positives used to expose a stencil onto a photopolymer emulsion-coated screen. Screen preparation,...
Line by Line: Introduction to Tapestry Weaving
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
This workshop will introduce students into tapestry weaving. They will learn how to build imagery with the tapestry weaving technique along with learning how to warp and dress a floor loom. Instructor will consult about weaving yarn materials. Week 1: Class overview, introductions, project expectations, studio use and safety, materials and equipment, presentation on contemporary weavers (focus on tapestry weavers and weavers who use imagery in...
Introduction to Screenprinting
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
Discover the art of screen printing in this hands-on course at the Richmond Art Center. Gain a solid foundation in the techniques, materials, and processes involved in creating your own screen-printed designs. Unleash your creativity and bring your ideas to life on paper and fabric.
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Tabletop Loom Weaving
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
Unleash your creativity and master the art of weaving beautiful fabrics on a convenient tabletop loom. Dive into a hands-on experience of setting up the loom and crafting your own unique textiles in a supportive studio environment. Develop your skills with personalized projects and guidance, all while exploring the intricate world of weaving.
Beginning Jewelry
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
Unleash your creativity and craft unique jewelry pieces in metal! Discover the art of fabrication, shaping, texturing, and finishing to create stunning rings, earrings, or pendants. Perfect for beginners and intermediates alike, this class offers a hands-on experience in jewelry making.
Landscape Painting from Photos
Richmond Art Center @ 23 Maine Ave, Richmond, CA
Refine your painting skills by learning how to enhance photo references in this comprehensive class. Explore techniques to bring life to your landscapes and master the art of painting from photos. Open to all painting media, this course will transform your artwork beyond mere copies.
Fundamentals of Oil Painting
Richmond Art Center @ 23 Maine Ave, Richmond, CA
Unleash your creativity with a comprehensive exploration of oil painting techniques, from materials to composition, at the Richmond Art Center. Master the art of still life painting in a supportive and inspiring environment. Discover the beauty and versatility of oil paints while honing your artistic skills.
Intro to Oil Painting
Richmond Art Center @ Virtual Classroom
Participants will learn the basic techniques of oil painting from an experienced urban landscape painter. They will practice mixing colors; learning color theory as they try out using different pigments. They will learn about qualities of transparency, different combinations of medium, and non-toxic alternative mediums. Participants will create several studies and one complete oil painting from subject matter of their choice. The course will include...
Weaving Explorations
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
Discover simple weaving techniques on a frame loom, back strap loom, and weaving tablets! Students will come away with looms to keep. Required supplies for this program: $40 materials fee, includes 2 looms to keep!
Painting with Oils, Cold Wax & Pigment Sticks
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
This class encourages experimentation with layered oil painting, combining oil, cold wax, soft pastels, pigment sticks and collage. Painting tools include the unusual and the traditional. Required supplies for this program: Your collection of oil paint should include the following colors: • Titanium White • Black • Primary Yellow • Scarlet Lake • Quinacridone Rose • Quinacridone Violet ( optional) • Ultramarine Blue • Cobalt Blue...
Stunning Color in Soft Pastel
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
This course offers new possibilities for artists who want to enrich their work by incorporating soft pastels to add both color and texture. Soft pastels are both a drawing and a painting medium. We will cover multiple methods and applications, and work on a variety of prepared surfaces. Every class will begin with warm up exercises, sometimes focusing on mark making, others on color and value. You should take this course if you are fascinated...
Composition Studies Through Collage
In this class, we will use the medium of collage to explore composition and design layout for artistic expression. Each class will focus on a different way to approach starting an art piece with exercises and examples given to help you approach the blank page in new ways. This class is a great way to try new things and experiment with paper, glue, and scissors. Ideal for painting, drawing, and printmaking students who have a large collection of...
Lost Wax Casting
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
We begin our work in wax, exploring different carving techniques in both cold and hot wax. Students turn completed wax models into molds, and learn about the investment and kiln burn-out processes. We will cast in the centrifugal casting machine, and students will learn to use a large hand torch. After casting, students will learn the finishing process. Casting is an excellent skill for any sculptor or jeweler's repertoire. $10 materials fee to instructor...
An Apple a Day
Painting apples are a simple and effective way to build some chops. Each class will consist of a 30-45 minute demo in oil, class painting and a brief critique. The course will begin with a monochromatic approach. Each week a new color scheme or painting approach will be covered and attempted. By the end of the class students will have improved their comprehension of color theory, paint application and technique. This class accepts acrylic and oil...
Advanced Jewelry
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
What skills do you want to learn? Gracefully curved and soldered wire work? Mechanisms? New stone captures and settings? Hinges? A nifty box clasp? Maybe you want to incorporate enamels into your fabricated jewelry? Learn new techniques and use them in your next project! Get professional, personalized guidance, and expand your skillset with demonstrations and challenging exercises. Includes 1 hour of instructor-led open studio. Basic fabrication...
Beginning & Continuing Enameling
Add vibrant color to your metalwork and jewelry using transparent and opaque enamels to spark light on your work. Learn basic enameling and explore stencils, threads, sgraffito and silver foils. Use enamel watercolors, graphite and decals to add images to your work. Already have the basics? Come and add to your skills as we explore this ancient craft. Beginners and Intermediate students welcome. $20 materials fee for enamels included....
Joy of Collage
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
Cultivate your unique creative voice through experimentation, while learning new techniques that support your particular direction. We will create several 2D collages using found images, photographs, personal memorabilia and drawings, along with an integrating element (such as paint, ink or charcoal). Your deeper expression and process is fostered as you play with adding and subtracting, responding to the work and your relationship to it. All...
Landscape from Photo Reference
Learn the "why" behind the importance of working from life... and how to use photos when working from life doesn't make sense (or isn’t possible!). We will be refining photo references as a tool, making your painting so much more than a copy of the picture. With a focus on landscape, once these tools are in your control they can be applied to any subject. This class is open to all painting media. Class 1: Depth Cues Class 2: Value Class 3:...
Wax Working & Rubber Mold Making for Jewelry Casting
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
Learn practical techniques for creating jewelry and small metal scultptures! In this class we will explore modern jewelry casting techniques using wax positives and rubber moldmaking. You will learn how rubber molds are made with the “Vulcanizer”and how they are cut. Instead of the same old printed jewelry, there are several other low tech ways to repeat the waxes. Hard wax and soft wax, carving, filing, welding,wax burrs, wax carving...
Watercolor Painting- Intermediate Techniques
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA
This class is designed for those who want to work together to fine-tune their skills in watercolor in a studio setting. We learn a tremendous amount by painting together, seeking advice, and working with other artists. Although all levels are welcome, including beginners, we will gear the class for those who have worked with watercolor before. Class Requirements: Although all levels are welcome, including beginners, we will gear the class...
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