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This course drills deep into the basics, beginning with a firm foundation in understanding wood as a material and incorporates introductory training in a wide range of techniques. The curriculum focuses on imparting skills through a series of projects designed to build on one another in techniques and complexity. After twelve weeks, you'll leave with an in-depth experience of hand tools; having practiced applications of joinery methods, considered choices for wood selection and worked with non-toxic materials. And you’ll understand practical planning for designing and executing woodworking projects.

Join Dana Sullivan, writer and/or illustrator of more than 16 picture books and graphic novels for this intensive dummy bootcamp, focusing on playful doodling, storyboarding, inside stories of the publishing world and having fun. Open to all levels of artistic training. Stick figures welcome. A perfect class for illustrators AND writers looking for a new perspective on their work.

This class will show you how to improve the portfolio photos of your work using Adobe Lightroom, whether you are a potter, a fabric artist, a sculptor, or work in oils, acrylics, pastels, or other two-dimensional work. Discussion will cover improving the photos you take, so that you have the best images to work from and how to organize your work as you import photos into Lightroom. Prior experience with Lightroom is helpful, but not necessary. A basic level photographic experience is expected. All ages welcome.

You will learn basic composition, linear perspective, and observational drawing (drawing from life). The techniques you learn will provide you with a visual language to express your personal artistic vision.

It will explore the basics of how our perceptions both external and internal effect the drawing result. Seeing, as an artist sees is not a magical ability only a few possess, but a process one learns, and through practice refines. Exercises will examine Measuring, Negative Space, Relationships, developing Touch, The four Stages of a Drawing, and personal skill building.

This class will be a complete introduction into the world of pole lathe turning with a focus on bowl turning. Students will build their own lathe, forge their own tools, and learn to turn bowls.

You will visit the basic practice of layering pastels from hard to soft and dark to light on various substrates. Chris will demonstrate on how to work from photographic reference material along with offering further instruction in speci?c techniques. There will be an emphasis on mark making and strokes. You will gain con?dence as you practice and begin to develop your own techniques and distinctive style.