We are so happy to host this workshop with award winning artist Laurie Maddalina- Here are the details
Saturday 1/30 10:00 – 4:00 (hour break for lunch)
Cost $100
Class Overview
This one-day workshop combines traditional portrait drawing techniques with the soft, blendable texture of PanPastels, offering artists a powerful and versatile medium for rendering and capturing likeness, values and form through expressive shading. Beginners and Intermediate artists will complete a portrait and gain confidence in using PanPastels for dramatic monochromatic effects.
Students will learn:
Portrait Foundations
● Anatomy of the face, proportions, features, & structure
● Exploring light and shadow with simple shapes
● Breaking down features into simple forms
Introduction to PanPastel
● Understanding the medium: properties & tools
● Techniques for blending, layering and erasing
Application Techniques
● Blocking in values: light, mid-tones and shadows
● Building depth and form with soft layering
● Using erasers for highlights and fine details
● Adding texture to hair, eyes, etc
Materials (All materials except the Prospek Proportional Divider can be purchased at The Art Stop):
- Sofft #4 Point Knife w/5 Covers
- PanPastel Artists’ Pastels Black, 9 ML
- PanPastel Artists’ Pastels Titanium White, 9ML
- Prospek Proportional Divider
- General’s The Original Charcoal DrawingPencils Set of 7
- General Pencil Factis BM-2 Mechanical Eraser
- Tombow MONO Zero Round Eraser, 2.3mm
- Large Kneaded Eraser
- Strathmore Recycled Toned Sketch Pad 400 Series-11″ x 14″ Tan (24 Sheets)
If you don’t have any of these items and you would like us to make up a kit, just let us know!
Reference image will be provided. You can work from an iPad or printed photo, whichever you prefer.
If you have any of the following items, that’s fine! Also bring along a 2B or 4B charcoal pencil.
Strathmore also makes a grey toned paper. Either is good!
Tues 1:00-3:00 1/5/27 – 2/2/27
–5 weeks $139
Anne Jurgens, award winning artist and certified instructor, will lead you through the wonders of watercolor. This class is intended for beginning and intermediate students with emphasis on expressing ourselves with paint. Beginning students will learn basic watercolor techniques including how to apply flat washes, graded washes, and glazes, wet in wet and dry brushing techniques. We will learn about composition, values, line, and color as elements in a painting. For intermediate students who wish to choose their own subjects, instruction will be individualized.- You can read the artist’s bio and see more of her work in the Gallery section.
- Paper: Arches 11×14 100% rag, 140 Cold Press. and/ or Strathmore Series 500 mixed media
- Brushes: Sable is best. Synthetic is okay Rounds #1, #5, #8 Flats: 1/2 inch, 1 inch, 2 inch, Rigger
- Water Container – One for clear, one to clean brushes can be as simple as a couple of
cottage cheese containers.
- Paper towels – to soak up excess water
- Pencil – #2
- Pallet : Make it large enough to hold 16 colors and have space to mix paints
- Paints: Here are the basics. You can buy more, but we can build almost any color
from these..
- These consist of both cool and warm in the primary colors enabling us to
be able to make the colors we need. Buy your colors In tubes or in cubes. Any brand,
except where noted you usually get better results with Professional grade, you can use Cotman when brand isn’t noted.
- Yellows: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna*
Reds: Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarine Crimson, Permanent Rose
Blues: Cobalt Blue, Winsor Newton Ultramarine Blue
Others: Winsor Newton Sap Green, Winsor Newton Burnt Sienna
- Waterproof board – To tape your painting to
- Knife for scoring . I prefer an exacto knife, , and a small hair dryer
Thursdays 1:00-2:30
Week Three November 19th
Cost $30 per class
Let Zen Nana, Certified Zentangle® Teacher guide you in a relaxing time for the mindful creation of Zentangle® art. You will have the opportunity to learn three tangles in each session.
The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. These patterns are called tangles. If you can hold a pen and print your name, you can draw using this calm method. Even if you think “I have no artistic talent”, you do – you can tangle! Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas created this method, and Zentangle is a registered trademark of Zentangle Inc. Learn more at www.zentangle.com
You will build on the initial Introduction class and leave with opportunity to draw an art piece (3.5 in square). The art piece will differ from image shown.
Please bring a permanent waterproof black micron pen (Ex. Sakura, Pigma), tip size can be 01 to 03; a blending tool (small tortillon), and a standard #2 pencil. Zen Nana will provide draft drawing paper, the 3.5 inch drawing paper, called a “tile” and written/illustrated instructions. Supplies available at The Art Stop.
Thursdays 1:00-2:30
Week One November 5th
Cost $30 per class
Let Zen Nana, Certified Zentangle® Teacher guide you in a relaxing time for the mindful creation of Zentangle® art. You will have the opportunity to learn three tangles in each session.
The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. These patterns are called tangles. If you can hold a pen and print your name, you can draw using this calm method. Even if you think “I have no artistic talent”, you do – you can tangle! Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas created this method, and Zentangle is a registered trademark of Zentangle Inc. Learn more at www.zentangle.com
You will build on the initial Introduction class and leave with opportunity to draw an art piece (3.5 in square). The art piece will differ from image shown.
Please bring a permanent waterproof black micron pen (Ex. Sakura, Pigma), tip size can be 01 to 03; a blending tool (small tortillon), and a standard #2 pencil. Zen Nana will provide draft drawing paper, the 3.5 inch drawing paper, called a “tile” and written/illustrated instructions. Supplies available at The Art Stop.
Thursdays 1:00-2:30
Week Two November 12th
Cost $30 per class
Let Zen Nana, Certified Zentangle® Teacher guide you in a relaxing time for the mindful creation of Zentangle® art. You will have the opportunity to learn three tangles in each session.
The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. These patterns are called tangles. If you can hold a pen and print your name, you can draw using this calm method. Even if you think “I have no artistic talent”, you do – you can tangle! Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas created this method, and Zentangle is a registered trademark of Zentangle Inc. Learn more at www.zentangle.com
You will build on the initial Introduction class and leave with opportunity to draw an art piece (3.5 in square). The art piece will differ from image shown.
Please bring a permanent waterproof black micron pen (Ex. Sakura, Pigma), tip size can be 01 to 03; a blending tool (small tortillon), and a standard #2 pencil. Zen Nana will provide draft drawing paper, the 3.5 inch drawing paper, called a “tile” and written/illustrated instructions. Supplies available at The Art Stop.
Wednesdays: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Teen to Adult
Cost: $139 for 7 Weeks
Next Session: 11/4/26 – 12/23/26 Skip 11/25 Thanksgiving
Can’t draw but want to? Can draw but want to get better? In this class you will use pencil, charcoal, and pastel to learn basic forms, one and two point perspective, negative space, tonal value and proportion. Use these fundamentals to draw anything. Drawing accurately is the basis for all other fine art mediums. You need to be able to accurately sketch out your canvas or paper before going on the next step.
- Materials List:
- Drawing pad w/perforated top 9 x 12 or 11 X 14
- hake brush
- 4 graphite drawing pencils, hard, med & soft
- metal sharpener
- pink pearl eraser
- kneaded eraser
- blending tortillions
- Kits are available for purchase with portfolio bag
Instructor Victoria Brzustowicz
6 week Class $179
Mondays 11:00-1:00
Next Session: 11/2/26-12/14/26 Skip 11/23
Course Description:
In this class we’ll explore materials, fundamentals, and best practices of oil painting, with an emphasis on direct or “alla prima” techniques. Color mixing and creating a range of colors from a limited palette will be taught. For students with previous experience in color mixing, a more complex palette will be used. Paint from your own sketches, photos, or studio still life. We’ll have demos in each class that will cover various topics such as various ways to start an oil painting, oiling out, stretching a canvas, preparing a panel, glazing, and varnishing.
- Supply List:
- If you already have oil paints, please bring them to class and we will work with your selection. If you don’t have supplies, here is the minimum to get started!
- Paints
Napthol Red (or equivalent) –
Ultramarine Blue –
Hansa Yellow Light (or equivalent)
Titanium White
- Surfaces
Canvas panel or gessoed panels in a variety of sizes, preferably 11 x 14 and smaller. Since we will be working alla prima, aim for smaller sizes if possible. 8x 10 is wonderful. Brushes: a least one of each, not too small! (4-6). We will discuss the individual marks that each type of brush makes, and you can add to your collection as you go.
Filbert
Flat
Round
- Palette Knife
- Gray Matters Disposable Palette Pad 12 x 16
- Masterson Sealed Palette
- Gamsol
Tues 1:00-3:00 10/27/26 – 12/8/26 Skip 11/3, 11/24 FULL
–5 weeks $139
Anne Jurgens, award winning artist and certified instructor, will lead you through the wonders of watercolor. This class is intended for beginning and intermediate students with emphasis on expressing ourselves with paint. Beginning students will learn basic watercolor techniques including how to apply flat washes, graded washes, and glazes, wet in wet and dry brushing techniques. We will learn about composition, values, line, and color as elements in a painting. For intermediate students who wish to choose their own subjects, instruction will be individualized.- You can read the artist’s bio and see more of her work in the Gallery section.
- Paper: Arches 11×14 100% rag, 140 Cold Press. and/ or Strathmore Series 500 mixed media
- Brushes: Sable is best. Synthetic is okay Rounds #1, #5, #8 Flats: 1/2 inch, 1 inch, 2 inch, Rigger
- Water Container – One for clear, one to clean brushes can be as simple as a couple of
cottage cheese containers.
- Paper towels – to soak up excess water
- Pencil – #2
- Pallet : Make it large enough to hold 16 colors and have space to mix paints
- Paints: Here are the basics. You can buy more, but we can build almost any color
from these..
- These consist of both cool and warm in the primary colors enabling us to
be able to make the colors we need. Buy your colors In tubes or in cubes. Any brand,
except where noted you usually get better results with Professional grade, you can use Cotman when brand isn’t noted.
- Yellows: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna*
Reds: Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarine Crimson, Permanent Rose
Blues: Cobalt Blue, Winsor Newton Ultramarine Blue
Others: Winsor Newton Sap Green, Winsor Newton Burnt Sienna
- Waterproof board – To tape your painting to
- Knife for scoring . I prefer an exacto knife, , and a small hair dryer
