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Youth Art Open Studio (Ages 7-13)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Explore your imagination and bring your artistic visions to life across various mediums including painting, sculpture, clay, drawing, or mixed media. Enjoy the freedom of an open studio environment, where individualized instruction fosters independent growth. Plus, embrace outdoor inspiration with occasional sessions in nearby parks for drawing from nature.
John Pastoriza-Pinol Watercolor Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
John Pastoriza-Pinol, an award-winning botanical artist with a doctorate in botany from the University of Vigo, Spain, is coming from Australia to teach a three-day workshop. Learn a technique for achieving the intricacies of fine detail in your paintings. Properly protecting those critical edges in your drawing before laying down your watercolor washes is an invaluable process for contemporary botanical artists. As a result, your paintings will...
$449
Fall Flowers in Watercolor and Pen & Ink
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Unleash your creativity this autumn with a captivating art course that explores the vibrant world of fall flowers. Join us for a unique blend of watercolor and pen & ink techniques as you learn to create depth and capture the beauty of these seasonal blooms. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your artistic skills and immerse yourself in the stunning surroundings of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
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Field Skething (Ages 16+)
Fill your sketchbook with observations of the natural world surrounding you! We’ll improve our observational drawing skills with basic drawing exercises, color mixing, and guided practice, while exploring a different location around Evanston or Chicago each class. No experience necessary, although a car is recommended to get to the different class locations. Please note that our first class will take place online, via Zoom, in order for us...
Digital Photography Projects Ages 16+
Deepen your own photographic style through sharing your work in this discussion-based course. We will begin with camera basics, compositional guidelines, and develop a shared language for our further discussions in the first class. Subsequent classes will be an open discussion on photographs that you've created independently each week. Examining and discussing the photographs of your classmates, as well as hearing their insights on your own photographs,...
Sketching Nature in Colored Pencil (Ages 16+)
Build your confidence in colored pencil by looking at the world around us. Moving between detailed work and quick sketches, move close up into subjects such as water and feathers, and zoom out with entire landscapes. The skills in this class are useful for nature journaling, those times when you want to capture your surroundings quickly and easily. Note: This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your...
Pens, Watercolors and Dr. Martin Dyes
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Create a series of small pen sketches or 1 large art piece beginning with permanent pens. Complete the art with Dr. Martin permanent Dyes (intense inks) and/or watercolors. Bring in still life material and references to make your own unique composition. The instructor will also set up a still life that can be used.
$155
Advanced Techniques: Surface Treatments
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Different surface design techniques covered will include sgraffito (carving through layers), mishima (in-lay), slip trailing, stencil and stamp design and application (store and handmade), resist techniques (wax and underglaze), image transfer, and silk screen application.
Drawing Art History
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Throughout history, artists have trained by learning from artists that came before them. We will focus on different areas of art history with particular emphasis on technique, including composition, line quality, values, etc. and then practice these techniques firsthand.
Watercolor: Fun and Easy
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Think watercolor is too difficult? This class takes the mystery out of the medium and shows you a variety of techniques and styles, step-by-step. Each class begins and ends with demonstrations by the instructor. Learn to paint your favorite landscapes, a still-life or flowers from your garden. Let loose with a “no holds barred” session dedicated to experimentation and spontaneity. Paint with everything from brushes to toothbrushes. Create a variety...
Mosaic Crochet Ages 16+
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
We'll begin with rows of simple single crochet stitches, working with one color on a row at a time. The interlocking color patterns come from "dropping" long double crochet stitches from the working row to another row below. Understanding of basic single and double crochet stitches would be required. Emphasis will be on how to understand pattern designs and be able to complete Mosiac Crochet stitches. Sample patterns will be completed before students...
Acrylic Pours for Jewelry (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Make cabochons for jewelry using the fun and unpredictability of acrylic pours. Week one will be creating pours, and week two will be the completion of the cabochons. Skill Level: All Levels
Creative Uses for Inks
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Inks have the ability to create fluid and impressionistic effects on both porous and non-porous surfaces. Using ceramic tile, clayboard, canvas, wood, glass, metal, fabric, and rice paper, learn how to utilize and control ink to create one-of-a-kind works of art that allow you to flex your creativity. Skill Level: Beginner
Watercolor In The Abstract Ages 16+
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Take a stab at this fluid and spontaneous medium. If acrylics are your first love, learn how to merge the two. If watercolor is your thing, learn how to produce more expressive work. Experiment and learn to be fearless in your painting. Create exciting shapes and textures not achievable with oils or acrylics. If you are new to watercolor, fear not, the instructor will demonstrate how to work with a variety of tools and materials including...
The Art of Portrait: From Drawing to Painting
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...
Acrylic Pour Paintings
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Who needs brushes when you can pour acrylic paint and create unique and unpredictable works of art? Experiment with acrylic pours learning new techniques and approaches to create either stand-alone abstract paintings or backgrounds for further development. Supply List: Flood Floetrol (gallon) is available through Home Depot in the paint section (also Lowes and Menards) Paints, canvases, and pins are available through Blick’s Officemate Giant...
$160
Pen and Ink Exploration: Color and Texture (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn how to combine the contrast and detail of pen and ink and the vibrancy of watercolor to create bold, exciting illustrations full of color and texture! We'll start off playing around with basic texturing techniques in both watercolor and ink, and then experiment with how we can combine those techniques to create realistic textures such as skies, soil, trees, fur, glass, metal, water, and more. Demos of specific textures will be open to student...
Paint the Town
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Unleash your creativity and explore the world of art in an immersive experience where you can unleash your inner artist and bring your imagination to life through captivating and expressive artwork.
Painting I, Acrylic
Aartwerk Studio @ 1141 W Granville Ave, Chicago, IL
Painting I, Acrylic is the introduction to the fundamentals of painting. We warmly recommend taking this course prior to any other painting course, even if your ultimate medium of choice is oil. Acrylics are fast drying, water-based paints, and will allow for quicker exploration of various approaches to painting. Because of this, technical rules and planning process are (unlike with oils) virtually nonexistent in this course. This said, the...
Origami Tessellations (Ages 16+)
Fold three awe-inspiring origami tessellations: Spread Hexagon, Square Weave, and Waterbomb, created by noted origami designers. A tessellation is repeated folds that form geometric patterns. Get familiar with origami terminology and techniques, and explore how your folds can be used in compound designs using materials found in your home. Skill Level: Beginner This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to...
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