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Online Summer Art Camp:Extraordinary Desserts on Canvas
Become a creator of something that everyone wants - the desserts that no one can say no to. Learn a technique of how to paint and draw cakes - as a treat to yourself, a visual delight for your kitchen or dining room, or as a unique gift for your family or friends for any special occasion. Supply List: For Drawing 9x12in Drawing pad (or any size you’d like) Set of drawing materials (the set does not include drawing pad) Workable Fixative Spray ...
Online Summer Art Camp: The Next Shiny Object
This expression is often used as a metaphor for “getting easily distracted”, but we will take it literally. Learn to paint and draw shiny objects - that are considered to be only possible to the “professional level” of skills: silver and gold, highly polished surfaces, sparkling eyes, and raindrops on leaves or flower petals. Find out how easy it is to create the shine - it is the technique that makes it possible: after these five days...
Online Summer Art Camp: Great Masters
Online Summer Art Camp: Great Masters, Meet Contemporary Teens Paintings by the Great Masters are awesome. They will teach us how to compose, draw, and paint realistically. Recreate their work in your own way, invite their characters into the 21st century, treat them with our fast food, give them a box of french fries and a coke, hand them a cell phone, earphones, a player, and a pair of sneakers, and let them wear your beanie. Transform that historic...
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Master Class
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
Come learn from a new guest instructor each session and expand your painting skills and gain fresh perspectives in art making. Our "Instructors in Residence" are internationally renowned artists with a wealth of knowledge to share. will present a single theme or topic for students to explore. Whether you’re just starting to explore art journaling or have years of experience (and countless journals!), you know it is a powerful way to re-connect...
Paint 6-in-6
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
Paint 6 pieces of art in 6 weeks! Learn a new, contemporary acrylic painting technique each week. In this course, students will be inspired to paint with acrylics through taking a look at other top artists who use these techniques, watching a class demo, and doing a step-by-step painting project together. No more "blank canvas syndrome." This is a great way to get started, stay inspired, and walk away with multiple pieces of art! Topics covered...
Advanced Abstract Acrylics
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
This class is designed to support the seasoned artist who has been painting (in any venue) for some time, and is looking to investigate abstract art and incorporate these techniques into their body of work. Such an artist will have completed the intermediate acrylics class or an equivalent. Experience and some knowledge of water-based paint helpful. Prerequisite for this class is Intro to Abstract Acrylics. Note: Student...
Wednesday Art Lab: Relax and Loosen Up
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
One of the comments heard most often by art students: "I want to loosen up." This class will explore what this means to each student and will include thoughts, methods, and exercises to achieve your goal. We will also be looking at iconic artists along the way: Franz Kline, Matisse (who has lessons for all artists), Shirley Trevana, Barbara Hepworth, and Pat Steir to name a few. Our goal will be to complete one or more paintings reflecting...
Out of Chaos: Principles of Composition 2-week Workshop
In this 2-week workshop, we will be exploring the Principles of Composition to create successful abstract art. “Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for color, and that you be a true poet. The last is essential.” ~Wassily Kandinsky While creating abstract art is a highly intuitive process that takes practice to master, there is a “method to the madness”...
Faux Encaustic with Acrylics 2-Week Workshop
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
What is it that everyone loves about the look of encaustic painting? Is it the satiny sheen, the luminous layers, the veiled mystery? Yes, so why not wax? Many love the look of encaustic paintings (paintings made with pigment and beeswax), but are not fond of the fumes or the heat and would rather paint using their acrylics. Without any special tools, equipment or paints, you can achieve an encaustic effect using acrylics....
Mid-Century Masters: Expressive Landscapes
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
Prerequisite for this more advanced class is Intro to Abstract. Mid-Century Masters explores new abstract expressionist themes, styles, and artists each session. Learn a variety of ways to express our California landscape using a combination of tools sourced from master Californian Mid-Century landscape artists! Some of their techniques included vast flat applications of paint, juxtaposed against sweeping brush strokes, and irregular grids,...
Finding Your Visual Voice
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
This class is designed to demystify artistic style and guide artists through specific steps to define or revamp their unique visual voice. Suggested prerequisites for this class: Intro to Abstract Acrylics or Intermediate Abstract Acrylics In a series of discussions and presentations about “style” and hands-on work in your chosen media we will identify and develop your unique visual language and learn methods to apply what you’ve discovered...
Abstract Oil Painting
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
Learn the basics of abstract painting with oils and compatible abstract methods, including R&F Pigment Sticks and Cold Wax Medium! In this class, we'll discover why oil paints are a favorite among many artists. There are so many options for creating abstracts with oils. We will focus on tubed oil paint, R&F Pigment Sticks, and the Gamblin Sampler Kit that includes our texture-making mediums like alkyd, solvent-free gel, and cold wax medium....
"Basquiat"
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
Learn various techniques for creating loose and gestural abstract figures. Join this experimental class with Shirin as she introduces you to the world of raw and outsider artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat! Students will learn his artistic process and techniques, creating 1-2 paintings in his style. We are going to also collage like Basquiat so bring paper, tissue, book pages, and a few of your Amazon boxes Supply List: bring all your painting...
Painting with R&F Pigment Sticks Workshop
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
Painting with R&F Pigment Sticks allows you to paint without a brush! Learn basic techniques and how to create your own tints, tones, and palettes. Students will learn about various oil paint products by R&F, information for safe handling, helpful studio practices, and preparing substrates. The instructor will also demo "direct mark-making," glazing, mixing colors, and more. Artists from all backgrounds will see how this product can enhance...
$125
Intermediate Oil Painting
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
Take your oil painting skills to the next level in this advanced course at Art on 30th. Explore composition for realism art, advanced brushwork techniques, and color mixing to create stunning artwork. Prerequisite: Intro to Oil Painting.
Whimsical Food Delights Workshop with Gilbert Weems
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
Indulge your creativity in our whimsical food-themed workshop! Dive into a world of imagination as you learn painting techniques to bring delightful and quirky food creations to life on canvas. Includes personal critiques and demos.
$115
Art 101: Brushes & Color
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
Learn about brushes, brushwork, color, mixing, and complete a simple painting—Wine & Canvas style. Week 1: different kinds of brushes, care of brushes, acrylic and oil brushwork techniques (broken color, scumbling, impasto, wet into wet, smooth blending, tonking, sgraffito, etc.) and watercolor brushwork techniques (wet into wet, wet into dry, washes, etc.) Week 2: what is color, value, hue, intensity, mixing colors; start a watercolor...
Art 101: Paints & Mediums
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
Learn about paints, mediums, additives for better flow or slower dry time, various thinners offers, and safe solvents you can add into paint and complete a simple painting—Wine & Canvas style. Topics Covered: How paint is made Reading labels Care of paints Different kinds of paints available including interference paints Non-toxic alternatives How you can extend paint Slow or speed up dry times Glazing Varnishing Start an oil...
$99
Art 101: New Tools & Texture
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
Learn about the top 10 gels and pastes by GOLDEN, new tools of the trade, and complete a simple painting—Wine & Canvas style. Topics covered: Mark making tools Paint applicator tools Texture making tools, tools from around your home Working with mediums Gels and pastes (glass bead, clear granular, fiber paste, soft gel, extra heavy gel, light molding paste, fluid matte medium, gloss medium, matte medium) Start an acrylic texture painting...
$99
Color Theory & Developing Neutrals
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
This workshop focuses on the art of color mixing using oils or acrylics. Learn how to use complementary colors to create subtle neutral grays, which combined with pure hue, makes a composition sing. We'll go through short exercises to implement the color theory and subsequently, as a final project, an abstract composition will be produced with dominant neutrals and pure color accents. Join us! All skill levels welcome Students are encouraged...
$95
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