All upcoming Studio Arts: Painting classes

Beginning students explore watercolor techniques and learn new approaches to painting through demonstration, discussion, and experimentation.

Build on your botanical painting skills as you create vibrant watercolors inspired by nature. Learn to focus on the texture and detail of botanical subjects including flowers, mushrooms, and vegetables.

Take the angst out of learning how to paint a portrait by creating monochromatic images of gargoyles, grotesques, and caryatids.

Paint for enjoyment and appreciate nature’s beauty as you study depicting flowers with watercolor.

After looking through objects in the collection of the National Museum of American History, design a still-life composition and paint your own arrangement of historic artifacts.

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.