Basic Drawing

Join art instructor and Arts Alive board member, Sue Kurfees, for a Basic Drawing workshop. Sue will teach students the best techniques to capture a still life subject with paper and pencil. Sign up to learn the basics of drawing!

Chinese Silk Painting: CLASS IS FULL

Join VMFA textile art instructor Mary Swezey for a Chinese Silk Painting workshop. Mary Swezey has a BFA in art history from VCU and an MFA in fibers from Arizona State University. She has also studied textile techniques at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. She has taught at VCU and Longwood College. Mary will help students learn the Chinese inspired techniques of painting on silk scarfs. After painting the background on their silk scarf, participants will examine images found in traditional Chinese art (including bamboo, fish, birds, and Chinese characters) which they will draw on the silk using a liquid resist. Once the resist has dried, students will apply brilliant fabric paint to complete their design. Participants can expect to finish one long scarf.

Oil Painting Basics

Join VMFA art instructor Marjorie Perrin for an Oil Painting Basics workshop. Marjorie Perrin is an instructor of fine arts painting and drawing at the VMFA Studio School. She obtained her BFA at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, a liberal arts degree from Randolph Macon Woman’s College, and has studied at The Art Students League of New York and VCU. Learn how to create realistic or abstract oil painting and the best ways to apply oil paints. Sign up today and take a home a beautiful masterpiece!

Sketching by the Grid

Live Christmas Wreath

Live Christmas Wreath, Class 2

Special Christmas Ornaments

Join artist, Nita Bunting for a fun holiday workshop. Students will learn to make Christmas Ornaments out of ordinary home items and craft materials. Bring the festive spirit back home with these cute decorations.

Traveling With Monet

Join painter and author, Monti Sikes for a Claude Monet inspired class in cold wax painting. Monti will teach students how to work with cold wax to create a beautiful impressionistic work of art. Cold Wax is an oil painting medium which is a soft paste made of beeswax mixed with a small amount of solvent and resin. The cold wax paste is mixed with oil paint on a palette. Cold wax adds body, transparency, and depth to the oil paint. Express yourself through this unique medium and sign up for her class today.

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