Currently my classes are offered at the Artists Workshop Studios on 540 Barracuda Blvd in New Smyrna Beach. They are scheduled as 6-week sessions of 3 hours weekly. Please call me direct for more info or to sign up at 386-451-6857, or email me at [email protected]. If you are part of a community center or a large community and wish to offer my classes to your membership, please contact me.
Art Exploration - Beginner's Class
An introduction to the most popular media and their techniques and materials
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If you have decided to make art a part of your life, but don't know where to start or which technique would best suit your lifestyle and temperament, this is the class for you!
To go thru all 8 media requires the time of 12 sessions. Each session is 3 hours. Class includes all materials and tools. You will have to buy nothing up front. If you already have some art materials, please bring them along so we can compare and evaluate what else might be needed. |
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We will start with charcoal and pencil sketching, then explore some colored pencil and pastel drawing. Then we continue with pen and ink drawing. Adding a gradated wash in ink, we will naturally progress to watercolor. We then will spend a couple of sessions trying out acrylics and oils. Each student should be able to go home with a completed small piece of art in each of these 8 most common media:
1. Charcoal - 1 session
2. Pencil - 1 session
3. Colored Pencil - 1 session
4. Pastel - 1 session
5. Pen and Ink/Ink Wash - 1 session
6. Watercolor - 2 sessions
7. Acrylics - 2 sessions
8. Oils - 3 sessions
But the most important thing is that you have a broader knowledge of techniques and materials and can make a better decision in what would suit YOU to take up as a hobby!
1. Charcoal - 1 session
2. Pencil - 1 session
3. Colored Pencil - 1 session
4. Pastel - 1 session
5. Pen and Ink/Ink Wash - 1 session
6. Watercolor - 2 sessions
7. Acrylics - 2 sessions
8. Oils - 3 sessions
But the most important thing is that you have a broader knowledge of techniques and materials and can make a better decision in what would suit YOU to take up as a hobby!
These explorations in chunks of about 1-3 sessions (each session is 3 hours) in each medium will give you a good idea what you like and what would suit your life and ultimate goals of creating.
I will give you advice and tips of what to purchase, what is necessary and what you can do without, with links and recommendations as to further exploration via internet, books, and artists' newsletters.
I will give you advice and tips of what to purchase, what is necessary and what you can do without, with links and recommendations as to further exploration via internet, books, and artists' newsletters.
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These tree samples are Pencil and Graphite, Pen and Ink with Wash, and Watercolor. To see the scene in the other media, you just have to take the class!
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Student Feedback
-...spoken like a true teacher! Always giving encouragement and positive feedback! That makes me feel good! Thank you!!!! You can’t imagine how much I have learned in the last several weeks. N.M. 2020
- I love your art class, so happy I signed up and I can’t believe we are already getting to the end of it. 12 weeks sounded like a good chunk of time...now I’m thinking 12 months would be even better. I enjoyed every minute and I’m happy that I can/could experience all the different media in painting with such a lovely crowd of people. K.H. 2019
- Your classes have been most helpful. So much to learn! I feel I’m ready to move forward in two areas I’ve really enjoyed with you. Pen and ink is very appealing as is oil painting. Thanks so much for your hard work and guidance. Maybe you can offer more classes I can use next year. It’s been a valuable experience! G.H. 2018
- Ireally enjoyed this class and very excited for more classes. I can’t tell you enough, how much I enjoyed them. I would love some help buying oil, gauche, some pen and ink as well as watercolor. Only when you have some time to catch your breath. My favorite 2 classes are oil and water color. Also loved pen and ink. M.G. 2018
- First of all, thank you Ruth for being such a great instructor - you are the apple of our eyes. I plan on continuing my pursuit of drawing, painting, and other forms of torture. So much fruit, so little time. I hope that we all cross paths again at future classes at the Artist's Workshop, or around town. It was truly a pleasure A.M. 2018
- We both really enjoyed the class and we are learning so much. I took classes in college but for the most part self taught, as is L. We both agree that you're an excellent instructor! S&L G. 2018
- What I really like is learning about all the different techniques and media. That has given me an appreciation and understanding of art that I never had before - and I am seeing the world with new eyes too. G.S. 2018
- I credit YOU with helping me to "get it." I'm learning so much in your classes and I look forward to "what's next." Thanks, again. C.C. 2018
-...spoken like a true teacher! Always giving encouragement and positive feedback! That makes me feel good! Thank you!!!! You can’t imagine how much I have learned in the last several weeks. N.M. 2020
- I love your art class, so happy I signed up and I can’t believe we are already getting to the end of it. 12 weeks sounded like a good chunk of time...now I’m thinking 12 months would be even better. I enjoyed every minute and I’m happy that I can/could experience all the different media in painting with such a lovely crowd of people. K.H. 2019
- Your classes have been most helpful. So much to learn! I feel I’m ready to move forward in two areas I’ve really enjoyed with you. Pen and ink is very appealing as is oil painting. Thanks so much for your hard work and guidance. Maybe you can offer more classes I can use next year. It’s been a valuable experience! G.H. 2018
- Ireally enjoyed this class and very excited for more classes. I can’t tell you enough, how much I enjoyed them. I would love some help buying oil, gauche, some pen and ink as well as watercolor. Only when you have some time to catch your breath. My favorite 2 classes are oil and water color. Also loved pen and ink. M.G. 2018
- First of all, thank you Ruth for being such a great instructor - you are the apple of our eyes. I plan on continuing my pursuit of drawing, painting, and other forms of torture. So much fruit, so little time. I hope that we all cross paths again at future classes at the Artist's Workshop, or around town. It was truly a pleasure A.M. 2018
- We both really enjoyed the class and we are learning so much. I took classes in college but for the most part self taught, as is L. We both agree that you're an excellent instructor! S&L G. 2018
- What I really like is learning about all the different techniques and media. That has given me an appreciation and understanding of art that I never had before - and I am seeing the world with new eyes too. G.S. 2018
- I credit YOU with helping me to "get it." I'm learning so much in your classes and I look forward to "what's next." Thanks, again. C.C. 2018