Classes + Workshops
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All classes and workshops are In Person unless noted otherwise.
Image: Nancy Gruskin, Black Tulip, Red Tulip, 2022, cut-paper collage, 16 x 20
Upcoming Classes
On Site: Capturing the Light en Plein Air
Plein air painting in historic Concord, MA! Capture the beauty of Autumn in Concord while painting outdoors with master plein air painter, Caleb Stone. Colorful specimen trees, Walden Pond and the surrounding woodlands, sweeping marshes,...
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Drawing Explorations!
All levels welcome. In this class, we’ll explore drawing in several different ways to grow our skills and go where we haven’t been before. We’ll use stick charcoal, crayons, colored pencils, watercolor paint, and even...
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Color + Spontaneity + Layering = Watercolor
All levels welcome. Transparency and flow are unique to watercolor. It is a balancing act between spontaneity and control. Delve deeper into the qualities and techniques that make a watercolor, a watercolor. New lessons on...
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Painting with the Palette Knife from the Model
Want to take your painting to the next level? Try painting with the palette knife instead of a brush. You will get clean color, beautiful texture, and deeper space with very little blending, if any....
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Seven Apples, Seven Ways
Are you interested in a new approach to seeing or making? Trying a new medium? Working with a new teacher? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, this is the class for you!...
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Online: Riffing on the Past
In this six-week online class, we will engage with the history of art through the making of collages, paintings, and drawings. We will not make copies of masterpieces. Instead, artworks and creative processes from diverse...
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Printmaking Sampler
All levels welcome. This workshop introduces students to a variety of printmaking methods that can be used to communicate ideas in different ways. Each day we will introduce a different technique: drypoint, collagraph, linocut, woodcut,...
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On Site: Painting Outdoors with Charlie Shurcliff
Come paint outdoors in sun and wind, amid the fresh greens and reds and ochres of fall in one of Concord’s large, natural settings. We will start off painting together–quick, abbreviated sketches to warm up–before...
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Model Session with Live Model (Oct 6)
All levels welcome. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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Online: Fun and Freedom in Drawing
Every drawing is a self-portrait of its maker, a record of a temperament, mood, and response to the world that is as unique as a signature. Working where we are, for fun and without fear,...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Oct 13)
All levels welcome. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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Color for Printmaking with Akua Inks
Why is color theory important, and how can we use it to improve our work? How do we achieve vibrant colors, textures, and dynamic mark-making in printmaking? Can we do all this and more using...
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Online: Alchemy of Color I
All levels welcome. “I am always trying to get to the danger point in color…” -Wolf Kahn We will study the language of color and each pigment’s personality in order to build a personal palette....
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Oct 20)
All levels welcome. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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Loosen Up Your Pastel Paintings!
All levels welcome. I often think, after completing a painting, that I would like to try it again, this time looser and with a modification or two. Painting a series gives you an opportunity to...
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Collage as a Way of Seeing
In this in-person workshop, we will focus on shape, color, and pattern, looking to the works of old masters as inspiration for our collages. We will go through the whole collaging process from painting papers,...
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Wonders of Gel Plate Printing
Gel plate printing is an accessible monotype printing process—no press required! It is a versatile and experimental process for creating papers for collage, bookmaking, cards, journaling, as well producing monotypes. Printing in this way naturally...
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Knives Out! Painting with the Palette Knife
All levels welcome. Want to take your painting to the next level? Try painting with the palette knife instead of a brush. You will get clean color, beautiful texture, and deeper space with very little...
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Approaches to the Figure
All levels welcome. Our subjects are live models. Using both drawing and painting media, we’ll practice different approaches that focus your attention on simplifying the figure in space. Relying on observation, we’ll explore ways to...
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Botanical Prints
In this class, you will learn to make unique and colorful botanical prints. Students will collaborate to make prints together and also make unique prints of their own using botanical and naturally found materials: leaves,...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Nov 10)
All levels welcome. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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Developing Personal Imagery with Monoprinting
We will start with the basic techniques of monoprinting: mixing inks, hand wiping, rolling, overprinting, using multiple plates and colors and then move on to experiment with some new techniques! Monoprints are variations within a series...
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Oil Painting: Spread It Like Budd-ah!
All levels welcome. Award-winning artist Paul George’s workshops are loaded with great information and motivation for both the beginner and the experienced painter. Paul will teach you how to approach any subject to design and...
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Explorations in Collage
All levels welcome. Collage is the perfect medium to open yourself to new ways of seeing while exploring personal expression. Working with materials close at hand makes decisions more immediate, instinctual, on-the-fly, and aids in...
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Oil Painters Can Be Printmakers Fast and Easy!
In this one-day workshop, you will learn how to translate your skills as an oil painter into printmaking. This technique requires no press, is portable, and can easily be used en plein air. Using your...
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Watercolor Painting from Photographs Intensive Workshop
All levels welcome. A discussion of materials (paper, paint, brushes), composition and drawing, the three basic paint washes, the importance of values, color mixing strategies, masking, dry brush, and all sorts of tips and specialty...
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Printmaking Studio Basics
Whether you are a first time printmaker or a seasoned professional artist, this class will get you set up with everything you need to know about how to print in Concord Art’s Print Studio. In...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Dec 7)
All levels welcome. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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Observing, Altering, and Transforming
In this weekend workshop, we will make paintings, drawings, and collages based on direct observation of a visually exciting arrangement of still life objects. Exercises will hone our ability to see, but also encourage our...
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In Person: Approaches to the Figure (Late Winter Session)
Our subjects will be a live model and inspiring works of art. Using both drawing and painting media we’ll practice different approaches which focus your attention on simplifying the figure in space. Relying on observation,...
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In Person: Portrait Drawing From Life in Charcoal (Late Winter Session)
All Levels The portrait is an engaging subject to explore through new drawing mediums and styles. In this class, students will work with a combination of vine sticks, compressed charcoal and charcoal pencils. Through demonstrations...
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In Person: Encaustics Workshop (FULL)
All Levels Welcome Encaustic paint is perhaps the most beautiful and durable paint that an artist can use. Made from beeswax and resin that can be polished to an enamel-like finish, it offers a number...
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Online: Drawing from Nature in Winter (FULL)
All Levels Winter is the perfect season to celebrate the muted hues and forms in nature. Join us in this workshop to refine your drawing skills, focused on an interesting rock, winter twig, or seedpod...
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IN PERSON: ART NIGHT Notecard Printmaking with Cathy Karp $45/pp (FULL)
Enjoy wine and snacks while making an interesting and easy piece of art. Take home something amazing. New project every session; creative fun for everyone! $45 per person, open to the public! (Fee includes all...
Click for DetailsIn Person: Color + Spontaneity + Layering = Watercolor
All Levels Watercolor Class Transparency and flow are unique to watercolor. It is a balancing act between spontaneity and control. Delve deeper into the qualities and techniques that make a watercolor, a watercolor. New lessons...
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In Person: Loosey, Juicy Watercolors
All Level Watercolor Painting Workshop Award-winning artist Paul George’s workshops are loaded with great information and are motivational for both the beginner and the experienced painter. Paul will teach how to approach any subject to...
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Online: Sketch to Paint in the Alla Prima Style
All Level Drawing and Painting Class It’s time to give your painting a push! Using a photo only as a reference and starting point…Emily will encourage you to take some chances, and breakthrough fears about...
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In Person: All Day Model Session with Live Model, Feb 10 (FULL)
All Levels Welcome No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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In Person: Jump Start Your Creative Process
All Level Creative Inspiration Workshop This 1-day workshop invites artists to jump start their creative practice and return to making art. Through a series of exercises artists will engage with materials and processes generating new...
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Online: Working on a Series – Maximizing Your Muse
Drawing and Painting Class for All Levels Many artists wish they could just latch onto an inspiring subject matter and run with it, making dozens of paintings and drawings with reckless abandon. This is nice...
Click for DetailsOnline: Alchemy of Color I
All Level Color Theory Class Class will meet online via ZOOM preferable on your computer (best screen). iPad and smart phone can also be used, but you will need to download the Zoom app. Martha...
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In Person: Approaches to the Figure (Early Spring) FULL
All Levels Welcome Our subjects will be a live model and inspiring works of art. Using both drawing and painting media we’ll practice different approaches which focus your attention on simplifying the figure in...
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IN PERSON: ART NIGHT Color Paper Collage $45/pp ONLY ONE SPOT LEFT!
Enjoy wine and snacks while making an interesting and easy piece of art. Take home something amazing. New project every session; creative fun for everyone! $45 per person, open to the public! (Fee includes all...
Click for DetailsIn Person: All Day Model Session with Live Model, Mar 24, (FULL)
All Levels Welcome No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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In Person: Explorations in Collage (FULL)
All Level Collage Workshop Collage is an exciting process where you select a variety of papers and colors to create exciting compositions, real or imagined. Find new ways of seeing while feeling free to be...
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Online: Painting Techniques: A Deeper Study (FULL)
All Level Drawing and Painting Class Using a combination of photos, observing interiors, and “found still life” as subject matter, painters learn techniques of layering paint, finding more expressive edges, using the element of sketching back...
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In Person: Cut. Paste. Construct. The Figure.
All Level Multi-media Workshop This weekend workshop will explore the figure through collage and sculpture. Working from a clothed model, artists will experiment with the potential of humble materials like paper and cardboard, and will...
Click for DetailsIn Person: Capturing the Light en Plein Air (Spring Session)
Intermediate to Advanced Plein Air Painting Capture the beauty of early spring in Concord while painting outdoors with master plein air painter, Caleb Stone. Colorful specimen trees, Walden Pond and the surrounding woodlands, sweeping marshes,...
Click for DetailsIn Person: All Day Model Session with Live Model April 7
All Levels Welcome No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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In Person: Printing Without a Press
Intro to Gel Plate Printing Workshop Gel plate printing is a low cost and accessible monotype printing process that is ideal for creating papers for collage, bookmaking, cards or journaling as well as a final...
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In Person: The Unique Image – Drawing + Painting with Acrylics
All Levels Acrylic Painting Class Explore your imagination and strengthen your mark making. Push beyond what you know and tap into your intuitive nature. Whether your work is abstract or representational, using your intuitive...
Click for DetailsIn Person: Evening Printmaking Sampler
All Levels Welcome! Those curious and want to explore various printmaking techniques as well as experienced printmakers who want to learn how to use our press and familiarize yourself with the print room. The aim...
Click for DetailsIn Person: All Day Model Session with Live Model Apr 19 (FULL)
All Levels Welcome No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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IN PERSON: ART NIGHT Neurographic Painting
Enjoy wine and snacks while making an interesting and easy piece of art. Take home something amazing. New project every month; creative fun for everyone! $45 per person, open to the public! (Fee includes all supplies,...
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In Person: Print, Wax, Poke and Stitch – Stepping into Translucency
LIMITED TO 5 STUDENTS All Levels Welcome Prints on Japanese paper that are waxed with melted beeswax become strong, translucent, flexible surfaces that welcome techniques like stitching, piercing, and sewing. These prints can be used...
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Online: Reconnecting with the Natural World – Elemental Landscape
All Levels Drawing and Painting Class Re-emerging into the outdoors after wintering offers us the chance to be inspired by the beauty of the world around us again. This month-long landscape sketching workshop is done...
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IN PERSON: The White Line Woodcut and Beyond
The white line woodcut, also known as the Provincetown Print, is a uniquely American form of printmaking, invented by artists working in Provincetown in the early 1900s. In this method, beautiful multicolor prints are printed...
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Online: Exploring Paper Late Spring Session
Paper is a wonder material. It makes an appealing surface for paintings and drawings, but it can also be cut, pasted, folded, and woven. Taking cues from the paper work of artists like Henri Matisse,...
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In Person: The Air In-Between: Seeing and Simplifying in a Charged Landscape
Combination of In-Studio and On-Site/Plein Air Painting workshop Each of the three days will be a combination of in-studio problem solving and plein-air landscape painting. The studio work will involve specific directed limitations in anticipation...
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ART NIGHT Acrylic Floral Painting $45/pp (FULL)
Enjoy wine and snacks while making an interesting and easy piece of art. Take home something amazing. New project every month; creative fun for everyone! $45 per person, open to the public! (Fee includes all supplies,...
Click for DetailsOnline: Exploring Paper Summer Session (FULL)
Paper is a wonder material. It makes an appealing surface for paintings and drawings, but it can also be cut, pasted, folded, and woven. Taking cues from the paper work of artists like Henri Matisse,...
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Character Design for Children’s Books
Through a variety of exercises, students will learn basic anatomy and movements of children and animals. They will apply their observational skills into developing unique, believable and appealing characters suitable for children’s books. The emphasis...
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Composition Clinic – A Crash Course in Compelling Design
All paintings live or die based on underlying design. Unfortunately, composition is one of the most challenging and least intuitive things about learning to paint. Where color and shape can be observational, good composition is...
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Printmaking Studio Basics
Whether you are a first time printmaker or a seasoned professional artist, this class will get you set up with everything you need to know about how to print in Concord Art’s Print Studio. In...
Click for DetailsAll Day Model Session with Live Model (June 21)
All Levels Welcome No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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Indigo Dye Workshop
Let’s dye with Indigo! From the palest summer sky to an almost purple black, come learn how to transform any natural fiber with your favorite shade of blue. Cathy will show you fun and easy...
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Visible Mending
In this One Day Workshop learn the art of Visible Mending! In a movement against throw away culture and fast fashion, learn how to pick up a needle and rediscover forgotten techniques and the joy...
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Get Ready to Exhibit!
Ron Rosenstock, internationally known photographer, is conducting a one-day workshop on how to prepare your artwork for an exhibition. Learn how to cut mats and frame your artwork to museum standards. Everyone will have a...
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Reading the Lines of the Land
All Levels Welcome This workshop is about moving from landscape into abstraction. The idea of landscape to abstraction covers a very broad range. It is very difficult to move one’s thinking towards the abstract, but...
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Drawing as Meditation
All Levels of Experience Meditation and drawing practices can be profoundly grounding. Weaving these practices together creates tactile, immediate ways to arrive in the present. In this weekend workshop, basic meditation techniques and expressive drawing...
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Plein Air, From Sketches to Finished Piece
You want to paint representationally, but with a sketch-like freshness … Set up an easel or drawing-board on your lap on the beautiful patio at Concord Art in Concord Center. The steep hill behind the patio offers a...
Click for DetailsAll Day Model Session with Live Model (July 15)
All Levels Welcome No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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The Unique Image – Intuitive Painting with Acrylics
In this 4-day intensive workshop, Kathy will assist you to thoughtfully explore your unique imagery and tap into your intuition. Through a series of exercises, demonstrations and critique, you will be encouraged to explore your...
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Printmaking Sampler
LIMITED TO SIX STUDENTS! All Levels Welcome! Those curious and want to explore various printmaking techniques as well as experienced printmakers who want to learn how to use our press and familiarize yourself with the...
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Linoleum Printmaking Workshop
Join artist printmaker, Coco Berkman, in a 2-day intensive workshop exploring the magic of relief printmaking! We will be transferring a drawing onto a 10” X 10” linoleum plate, carving it with Japanese carving tools...
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Watercolor Intensive Workshop
Color, as it is used in watercolor and as a tool for expression, will be the focus of this workshop. Through individual mentoring, you will clarify your vision and intent by exploring how you see,...
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The White Line Woodcut and Beyond
The white line woodcut, also known as the Provincetown Print, is a uniquely American form of printmaking, invented by artists working in Provincetown in the early 1900s. In this method, beautiful multicolor prints are printed...
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Online: Embrace the Practice – Daily Painting Workshop
The daily painting workshop embraces the painting process and the importance of a regular practice as a path to improving creativity and image making skills. Using acrylic or oil students will discover approaches to simplify...
Click for DetailsKnives Out! Painting with the Palette Knife Intensive Workshop
Want to take your painting to the next level? Try painting with the palette knife instead of a brush. You will get clean color, beautiful texture, deeper space with very little blending, if any. Through...
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Discover Drawing through Printmaking
All Level Monotype Printmaking Workshop During this workshop, we will explore using monotype methods to approach printing a plate with repeatable elements. Teaching will highlight how to make and print a drypoint plate with time...
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Sculptural Painting
In this four-day intensive workshop, we’ll explore the sculptural possibilities of paper, cardboard and lightweight plastic, and then use acrylic paints to see how color can enhance and add meaning to our three dimensional adventures....
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Sketch to Paint in the Alla Prima Style
Alla prima is the Italian word for “at one time.” Adding a sense of immediacy and freshness to your painting is what we will focus on in this class using either oil or acrylic. Painting...
Click for DetailsApproaches to the Figure
All levels welcome. Our subjects are live models. Using both drawing and painting media, we’ll practice different approaches that focus your attention on simplifying the figure in space. Relying on observation, we’ll explore ways to...
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Introduction to Oil Painting
Do you want to try oil painting? It’s easier than you think and is perhaps the most forgiving of media! This brief foray into oil painting encourages you to focus on process rather than product...
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Shed Some Light on Your Scene Using Pastels
All levels welcome. We will explore concepts and strategies for transforming “ordinary” images into extraordinary paintings using pastels! We will emphasize the importance of value, composition, and light in your artwork. This workshop will be...
Click for DetailsPrintmaking Studio Basics
Whether you are a first time printmaker or a seasoned professional artist, this class will get you set up with everything you need to know about how to print in Concord Art’s Print Studio. In...
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Reading the Lines of the Land
All levels welcome. This workshop is about moving from landscape into abstraction. The idea of landscape to abstraction covers a very broad range. It is very difficult to move one’s thinking towards the abstract, but...
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Joomchi Practicing Gratitude: Wearable Art
For artists of all levels. Joomchi is a traditional Korean papermaking technique of layering and agitating Mulberry fibers with water to create textural and painterly surfaces, from smooth and leather-like to strong and highly textured...
Click for DetailsShed Some Light on Your Scene Using Pastels
All levels welcome. We will explore concepts and strategies for transforming “ordinary” images into extraordinary paintings using pastels! We will emphasize the importance of value, composition, and light in your artwork. This workshop will be...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Sep 22)
All levels welcome. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses, with at least...
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Creating with Color: An Introduction to Abstract Collage
Explore the world of abstract collage-making. We’ll use colorful, transparent, and patterned papers to layer and compose our collages on paper substrates. Through playful experimentation with color, value, and composition, you’ll create dynamic abstract collages...
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