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Fine Arts Acrylic Painting Techniques
Ages 14 & Up: All ability levels are welcome. Discover how to use a step by step approach that makes acrylics resemble the lush look of oils. Learn to create a painting you will be proud to hang in your home. You will love the results! Please bring several pictures of what you would like to paint. $8 material fee due to instructor. Fee covers palette, paper, and extra paints. Please call Margaret at 301-318-8319 for supply list. 10 Sessions $170 Instructor: Margaret Deskin 362241 Bauer Drive CRC 1/11 Sa 10:30am -12:30pm
Chinese Watercolors
18 & Up: All levels are welcome. Join a local Chinese artist as she teaches you the essential brush strokes needed to paint the 'Four Gentlemen' of Chinese art and their varations. $28 material fee due to instructor at first class. 10 Sessions $170 Instructor: Helene Sze McCarthy 364107 Blair, Montgomery HS 1/8 W
7:30pm-9:30pm
Drawing Kids and Animals w/ Kritt
Ages 17 & Up: You'll be thrilled at how easy this is. From portraits to sketches of the entire body, you can do it all. Sketch your kids at play, or draw your cat or dog (or bird, turtle, etc.!) Create family heirlooms! Learn to do subjects who pose and how to do quick sketches of those who won't sit (or stay!). Call 301-989-1799 for supply list. 8 Sessions $136 Instructor: Penny Kritt 364048 Kritt Studio 1/6 M 10:00am -12:00pm 364049 Kritt Studio 1/6 M 7:00pm-9:00pm
Oil or Acrylic Painting- Your Choice
Ages 18 & Up: Beginners/Intermediate Learn how to prepare the palette, how to start a painting, and how to mix and blend colors. Subjects include still life, landscape, figure or abstract. Frequent demonstrations and care of materials also included. This popular class fills quickly! Materials discussed at first class. 8 Sessions Instructor: Doris Haskel 364435 Norwood LP 1/6 10 Sessions Instructor: Doris Haskel 364436 Norwood LP 1/7 364437 Norwood LP 1/8
速Paint like Van Gogh with Merlot NEW
Ages 21 & Up: All levels: Express your artistic creativity on canvas! Enjoy a few glasses of red or white wine and mingling while you create your individual masterpiece. Instruction, beverages, and all supplies provided. 1 Session Instructor: Vivienne Cho 363105 Bauer Drive CRC 1/23 363108 Jane E. Lawton CRC 1/30 363104 Potomac CRC 2/6
$49 Th Th Th
7:00pm-9:30pm 7:00pm-9:30pm 6:00pm-8:30pm
Right Brain Drawing Beginner
Ages 13 & Up: Discover how to unhinge preconception and draw what you see. Sharpen your powers of observation with a variety of exercises and see what you can create! Bring drawing paper, pencils (HB,B1,B4), ruler, erasers or $25 for materials fee due to instructor. 7 Sessions $119 Instructor: Yolanda Prinsloo 364126 Potomac CRC 1/6 M
5:30pm-7:00pm
Right Brain Drawing Advanced
Ages 13 & Up: For those who have taken a beginner class with Yolanda Prinsloo in the past or have drawing experience. Build on perceptions of drawing and explore new techniques in pencil, color pencil and/or watercolor. $20 material fee due to instructor at first class. 7 Sessions $119 Instructor: Yolanda Prinsloo 364124 Potomac CRC 1/6 M
7:15pm-8:45pm
Sketching with Charcoal
Ages 16 & Up: Learn the art of charcoal drawing through sketching still life with a Fine Artist. Practice sketching quick sketches as well as longer drawings. Use of vine charcoal, black conte, umber conte and white conte will be demonstrated. Exploration of composition, light and dark, form and space. A material fee of $20 is due to the instructor at the first class. Any questions? Email valeriehaber@msn.com.
$144
2 Sessions $45 Instructor: Valerie Haber 362017 Plum Gar CRC 2/12 W 10:00am -12:00pm
M 9:45am -11:45am $180
Stone Sculpture
Tu W
9:45am -11:45am 9:45am -11:45am
Painting from A to Z
Ages 10 & Up: All levels: Chose any painting medium you would like to work on: watercolor, gouache, acrylics, or oil painting. Beginners will be given structured lessons in composition, value, color mixing, and various painting techniques; experience painters can work independently. Individualized attention will be given to meet personal needs. Please bring a sketchpad, 4B pencil, and an eraser to the first class. Materials will be discussed in the first class.
Ages 16 & Up: Basic Instruction in the use of stone tools and the types of stones. Learn to hammer, chisel, sand and finish. Furnish your own tools, supplies and stone. Necessary tools and materials will be discussed at the first class. Bring gloves and safety glasses or goggles to first class for hands on experience. 10 Sessions $170 Instructor: Annamyra Ruppert 368104 Ross Boddy CRC 2/19 W
7:00pm-9:00pm
9 Sessions $152 Instructor: Vivienne Cho 362365 Bauer Drive CRC 1/7 Tu 11:00am-1:00pm
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