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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.
This introductory course teaches the basic skills needed for drawing. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, including charcoal and pencils, students explore the rendering of geometric forms, volume, and perspective, with an emphasis on personal gesture marks.
Take the angst out of learning how to paint a portrait by creating monochromatic images of gargoyles, grotesques, and caryatids.
Participants refine and expand their drawing skills through studio practice in traditional media. Sessions focus on classic subject areas such as landscape, portrait, and figure.
Whether you want to work in digital or film, this course offers a solid foundation for new photographers ready to learn the basics. Topics include camera functions, exposure, metering, working with natural and artificial light, and composition.
Paint for enjoyment and appreciate nature’s beauty as you study depicting flowers with watercolor.
Learn clay techniques and gain an understanding of the human body, gestures, and expressions as you sculpt a portrait, torso, or full-figure piece by working from life.
Study the styles and methods of collage art favorites including Henri Matisse and Hannah Hoch and then interpret them in your own work.
At one time or another, everyone has struggled with writing the English language. By now it seems we should have standardized it, phoneticized it, brought it into line, and declared “Enough is enuf.” But the attempts of legions of rebel wordsmiths on both sides of the Atlantic who became fanatically occupied with writing thru instead of through and laf for laugh all proved futile. Author Gabe Henry traces 500 years of efforts to wrestle our language’s spelling into submission.
