Studio Classes

Beginners Painting Classes
Sign up for regular 6 week sessions at the cottage studio in Vancouver.

Learn to paint in a relaxing and gentle atmosphere where process is more important than product. You will learn to paint, but you will also learn to relieve your stress, find your inner artist, and discover something new about yourself. Ongoing classes - begin at any time. Beginners get personalized instruction and guidance, more experienced painters get one-on-one critiques and instruction on their favorite on-going project.

Wednesday Acrylic Classes* – Learn to paint with a very forgiving medium that allows you to get the results of oils with soap and water cleanup. This class will focus on landscape and still life for true beginners. Learn perspective and color mixing while discovering your creative inner core. Finished painting in 6 weeks. Class time: 9:30 – 11:30 AM

Saturday Watercolor Classes* – Learn the subtle nuances of how to control a very liquid, easy flowing medium that gives you the opportunity to experience your creative side. No canvas to buy, easy cleanup, finished painting in 6 weeks, hours of getting lost in your work and enjoying it as your whole body relaxes! Class time: 10:30AM-Noon.

NEW IN FEBRUARY!

Join veteran writer and artist Sharon McCameron Whyte, MFA in thestudio with pen, pencil, watercolors, magazine cut outs, stamps,photos and other ephemera to create an "extraordinary" keeksakefrom "ordinary" items bound together and re-imaged in an art journal. From blind contour drawings, pencil and watercolorsketches of botanicals and still life vignettes, watercolorpaintings of objects in nature, to contemplative writing, Sharon will teach you the basics on how to document life, make a dream journal, document a sweet memory, or an unfolding event (like wedding preparations, the birth of a child, getting ready for retirement, or self reflection).

Chronicle your experiences in an intimate pictorial format.

Our first lesson will be spent gathering supplies, discussing formats, and decorating the cover of your journal. Sharon will provide some artsupplies, you can bring some from home, and we will combine these artistic tools for a creative stash of supplies that everyone can use. Lesson two will be a sketching/painting lesson and writing session. Our third and fourth lesson will be spent exploring and documenting our own personal experiences.

This is not just a workshop for the artist or writer, but is an experience open to all who seeka more creative relationship with your inner artist.

4 lessons – completed journal for $100. Journal and some artmaterials provided. Saturday mornings . Call for times and dates!

Contact Me for Further Information on Classes, Supplies or Travel Workshops
Sharon McCameron Whyte, MFA
120 NE 117th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98684
(785) 840-5390 (Cell) • (360) 944-6692 (Studio)
ladyartprof@yahoo.com

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