Whether you are traveling, exploring, or just adventuring through your daily life, draw the things that are important to you and start noticing the wonderful small details around you.
Through group discussions and imaginative studio activities, engage your creativity and boost insight in weekly eye-opening, hands-on, interactive art workouts.
In a series designed to provide a tranquil midday break, create small but satisfying works of art as a way to hit “pause” and incorporate a bit of creativity into your at-home routines.
Students find out why we see and communicate color differently, how light affects color perception, what the Impressionist color palette was, and how the artists painted.
Explore the basics of color theory, including temperature, value, and harmony-creating color schemes. In hands-on projects, learn to use a color wheel with tinting and toning, color charts, and color harmony studies.
After being guided through mindfulness activities that teach you to make embodied choices in art making, delve into emphasizing process over product and play over perfection. Expect a class grounded in both creative theory and therapeutic principles that deepen your relationship with yourself as an artist and as a person.
Refamiliarize yourself with the fundamentals of color theory while learning an approach to mixing color that relies on color harmonies. Gain a deeper understanding of complementary color relationships to more intuitively mix colors and harness color harmonies to better express depth as well as the contrast between light and shadow.
This course examines fundamental concepts of composition and their practical application in art practice, offering participants tools to enrich their work as well to analyze and appreciate visual art in general. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
Dig into how to engage in art-making through the principles of improvisation and exploration. Get back into the flow of your creative practice, combat perfectionism, and learn how to pay attention to the materials in front of you rather than the critic in your head.
In this once-a-month class on the essentials of starting a sketchbook habit, practice “close looking” exercises as you fill your sketchbook with meditative contour drawings, watercolor sketches of the natural world, and quick but evocative images from your travels, past or present.
