All upcoming Studio Arts: Painting classes

Learn how to paint expressive portraits as you improve your observational skills, ability to see angles and shapes, and understanding of color and value. The class emphasizes how to define a subject’s unique features by determining shapes of light and shadow.

In this course, gain the technical background and experience you need to get started as a painter. Working from museum masterpieces, still-life arrangements, or your favorite photos, explore basic painting techniques, including color-mixing, scumbling, and glazing.

In this four-week class, students are introduced to materials and techniques for oil painting while laying a strong foundation for further artistic growth.

April and May are magical in the Enid A. Haupt Garden. Sketch there using watercolors to capture the changing light of the season.

Discover the versatility and fluidity of painting in watercolor, an exciting and unpredictable medium. Learn techniques such as graded washes, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, dry brush, splattering, lifting, and glazing.

Expand on your technical background and grow your practice as an oil painter. This class provides students with the opportunity to work on personal projects, set up a still-life arrangement, and explore figure painting from a live model. Unfurl your style with support and feedback from the instructor.

Discover how to capture your subject with expressive, sketch-like painting that emphasizes the most essential elements over excessive detail.

With brushwork of soft pinks and gentle lavender, explore techniques to portray the cherry blossoms’ ethereal quality, while adding colorful dimension to the Jefferson Memorial’s stately architecture.

Learn to embrace and celebrate the unpredictability, versatility, and beauty of watercolor. Class discussions cover supplies; color theory, palettes and pigment control; and exercises and experiments to achieve different effects.

Discover how to draw with fluid lines and paint with flowing watercolors as you capture scenes from coast to coast.