Zendoodle is a meditative scribbling or drawing process to calm your mind helping you to become centered. With Zendoodling, the repetitive strokes and lines allows you to concentrate on rhythmic and repeating patterns, helping you to let go of thoughts and concerns and alleviate stress. In this fun and creative 7-week class students will learn how to draw many different patterns and how to paint the patterns. The first section of the class, students will learn about Zendoodle and do exercises that will get them comfortable and familiar with Zendoodle designs. They will use their designs to create black and white patterns, then color them like their own meditative coloring book. In the second part of the class students will apply what they have learned to a painting and apply the patterns to a subject. Come and get Zen with us! Mondays, April 5 through May 24 Instructed by Behnaz Ahmadian

Quick Sketch is a fun way to learn and improve your drawing skills through fluid and rough sketches that can turn into brilliant drawings! This class will focus on quick sketches using live clothed models. Class will cover how to draw quick gestures, the envelope drawing method, techniques to drawing drapery, perspective drawing and much more! Mondays, April 5 through May 24 No class on May 17 Instructed by Cliff Austen

Learn how to make unique prints in many ways. Students will create marbled papers, monoprints (one of a kind painted prints), collographs (collage prints) and relief prints. Each week a new technique will be explored, with the final week used as an opportunity to combine techniques together. Special Notes: This is a process-oriented class that focuses on learning techniques while emphasizing freedom of expression and exploration. Students will produce multiple artworks through experimentation and practice. Tuesdays, April 6 through April 27 Instructed by Julia Rymer

Spend your evenings creating a large sculpture of your favorite animal and/or pet out of Paper Mache. Using only paper, students will learn how to create an armature, then add muscles and finally a furry texture to their animal. Tuesdays, April 6 through May 25 Instructed by Maggie Stewart

For the health and safety of our little artists and their families, the Curtis Center for the Arts will be providing take-home-kits for the 2021 Winter and Spring season. For each project your little artist will be introduced to a new art medium (drawing, painting, sculpture and more). Preschoolers will receive a kit with directions and will create the art project from the safety and comfort of home. BUNNY SCRAPING - Preschoolers will be using spring colors and a paint scraper to make colorful bunny rabbits. They can make numerous bunnies and each one will be its own unique work of art! Kit Includes: canvas paper, bunny stencil, paint scraper, paint and glitter glue Ages 3 to 6 years old Instructed by Lauren Brant

This enjoyable exploration class is designed to help experienced oil painters grow and fine tune their art skills. Artists gain confidence by painting small alla prima paintings. Each week will include a different theme including value, drawing, color, design and brushwork along with a variety of seasonal subjects. Students may also work on their own projects independently. Homework and critiques will be included. April 7 through May 12 Instructed by Aimee Deneweth M.S.

This hands-on course is designed to help students develop a better understanding of fundamental painting concepts and how they apply to landscape painting – value, shape, composition, color, edges and texture. April 8 through May 13 Instructed by Janet Anderson

Explore handbuilding techniques from slab to coil! Students will create many different pieces and experiment with different sizes and strengths when working with clay. Students will also get to glaze their final pieces and experiment with different glazing techniques. Thursdays, April 8 through May 13 Instructed by Maggie Stewart

This course is designed for students wanting to improve their watercolor skills in a studio environment. Using their own subjects and images, students will learn the artistic concepts pertaining to watercolor, such as transparency, composition, basic color theory, and value. Classes will focus on hands-on working knowledge of the medium with the emphasis on problem-solving, skill building, and for students to develop their own personal style. Specific techniques will be addressed to help students make decisions and work through and complete their own paintings. April 9 through May 14 Instructed by Rick Brogan

Learn how to draw the human figure from a live model using various techniques and artistic approaches. The purpose of this class is to help students obtain the basic skill of drawing the human form, including anatomy, observation of the human form and fundamental exercises in gesture, contour, outline and tonal modeling. April 13 through May 25 No class on May 18 Instructed by Michael Dowling

This class is a fun way to loosen up and learn different ways to apply and manipulate acrylic paint! Be ready to think outside the box and push yourself to depict your subject matter in several different ways while exploring the versatility of acrylics. Students will be creating their own painting after experimenting with the acrylic painting processes, they have learned in class through instructor demonstrations, visuals, handouts, short lectures and hands on student exercises. Tuesdays, April 13 through May 25 No class on April 27and May 18 Instructed by Christa MacFarlane

This is a two-day, jam-packed workshop is perfect for taking your encaustic skills to the next level. We will be experimenting with lots of techniques: painting, scraping, incising, accretion, sgraffito, image transfer, dipping, pouring, shellac burns, and imbedding paper/small bits. Phew! All materials provided, just bring your creativity. Let’s see what we can create with encaustic wax! Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April Instructed by Victoria Eubanks

As the weather warms and Spring approaches, let’s downsize our supplies and paint in our sketchbooks. This on-line class will be all about sketching with pencil, ink, a limited watercolor palette, and watercolor pencils. Sketching on the spot can be sketching on your front porch, capturing an interior of your home or capturing the lines and shapes of a still life on the kitchen counter. These skills will carry over when you are taking your sketchbook on the road. Thursdays, April 29 through May 27 Instructed by Renee Reese