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Painting
Become technically proficient in watercolor, acrylic, oil or egg tempera.
Whether you prefer classical, representational, abstract or contemporary art, each painting you create will lead you to finding your own personal aesthetic.See more class offerings:
FEATURED CLASSES:
Acrylics and Collage
Michael Gadlin Ability: All Levels
Spend a day exploring the variety of techniques that are available
when working with acrylics, including glazing, achieving depth of color, and combining acrylics with other materials, textures, and collage elements. You will leave this workshop with a broader view of acrylics and how they can be used with other media and techniques to achieve interesting results.
1-day workshop | Thursday, Aug 19 | 9 am–4 pm | $75 | Register Now!
Michael Gadlin Ability: All Levels
Spend a day exploring the variety of techniques that are available
when working with acrylics, including glazing, achieving depth of color, and combining acrylics with other materials, textures, and collage elements. You will leave this workshop with a broader view of acrylics and how they can be used with other media and techniques to achieve interesting results.
1-day workshop | Thursday, Aug 19 | 9 am–4 pm | $75 | Register Now!
Introduction to Watercolor
Rick Brogan Ability: Beginner
Wild about watercolor, but don’t know where to start? Get your feet (and brushes) wet in this one-day class covering the basics of watercolor. After a preliminary introduction to materials, the class will include exercises involving wet-in-wet, dry brush, masking, sponging, and spattering. You will also learn how to start a painting.
1-day workshop | Thursday, Aug 26 | 9 am–4 pm | $75 | Register Now!
Rick Brogan Ability: Beginner
Wild about watercolor, but don’t know where to start? Get your feet (and brushes) wet in this one-day class covering the basics of watercolor. After a preliminary introduction to materials, the class will include exercises involving wet-in-wet, dry brush, masking, sponging, and spattering. You will also learn how to start a painting.
1-day workshop | Thursday, Aug 26 | 9 am–4 pm | $75 | Register Now!
Painting Denver's Landmarks
Don Sahli Ability: Intermediate to Advanced
Working on location in the historic neighborhood surrounding the school, students will produce field studies, relating and simplifying the complex landscapes and buildings into simple color spots. Students will learn to use the tools of value, color and temperature, form, light and shadow, design and composition to quickly capture the essence of the scene. Don will provide hands-on guidance and instruction in how to apply these tools to the unique challenge of painting on location.
3-day workshop | Friday–Sunday, Aug 20–22 | $175 | Register Now!
Don Sahli Ability: Intermediate to Advanced
Working on location in the historic neighborhood surrounding the school, students will produce field studies, relating and simplifying the complex landscapes and buildings into simple color spots. Students will learn to use the tools of value, color and temperature, form, light and shadow, design and composition to quickly capture the essence of the scene. Don will provide hands-on guidance and instruction in how to apply these tools to the unique challenge of painting on location.
3-day workshop | Friday–Sunday, Aug 20–22 | $175 | Register Now!
Understanding Color
Andrea Kemp Ability: Beginner to Intermediate
Whether you are a beginning artist or want to push the boundaries of your work, this four-day workshop will provide you with a greater understanding of color. You will explore all aspects of color by breaking it down to its rawest form. By examining the nature of this powerful element, you will learn to direct your color palette rather than have it direct you.
4 sessions | Friday and Saturday, Aug 6–7 and 13–14 | 9 am–4:30 pm | $110 | Register Now!
Andrea Kemp Ability: Beginner to Intermediate
Whether you are a beginning artist or want to push the boundaries of your work, this four-day workshop will provide you with a greater understanding of color. You will explore all aspects of color by breaking it down to its rawest form. By examining the nature of this powerful element, you will learn to direct your color palette rather than have it direct you.
4 sessions | Friday and Saturday, Aug 6–7 and 13–14 | 9 am–4:30 pm | $110 | Register Now!
Writing the Brush: The Painterly Path
Lindy Lyman Ability: All Levels
Explore new and old ways to glide, wiggle, and dance your brush as you directly observe your immediate world. Practice brushwork, mark-making, purposeful calligraphy, wordless writing, and painterly painting. Infuse your canvas with the urge to speak, spill forth and play out what the eye, hand, mind, and intuition have to say.
3-week workshop | Wednesdays, Aug 11–25 | 6–9 pm | $85 | Register Now!
We're flexible! You can register and pay for only the classes you plan to attend each month. CLICK HERE for our pro-rated schedule. 
Scholarships are available for Ongoing classes and workshops.
Scholarships are available for Ongoing classes and workshops.
