Botanical paintings

Want to paint in watercolors? Join us Saturday, December 15 from 2pm to 4pm for a fun watercolor class. Age 16 and up. Class will be held in the Art Gallery at the NWA Mall. All levels of skill welcome and no drawing skills required! Take home a painting to keep or to give.

This class will focus on mixing colors and then we will learn brushwork and techniques that create effects like no other art medium. We will also learn how to set up your art workspace, prepare the paper and paints for painting. Watch a demo on watercolor techniques and see examples of how to use that technique in paintings. Then create your own paintings under the guidance of Diane Stinebaugh. Diane has been painting and teaching painting watercolor for over 20 years.

All supplies are provided by the Art Gallery. You are also welcome to bring your own. Seating is ticketed and limited.

If you missed the first class, you can catch up by going to You Tube and watching “How to Draw the Head and Face - Reilly Method-art Tutorial” Art By Galen, Front View.

The Reilly Abstraction is a drawing method that focuses on creating the shape of the head by using construction lines and shapes that represent the proportions of the face. This is a system that an artist can duplicate in order to create proportional faces. The system focuses on abstract shapes first, then the details of the features.

There are lots of steps in this lesson. Students will be able to draw a face. Sandra will demonstrate the steps one at a time and help the students complete the rhythm lines.

This class is for students 16 and older. Supplies (pencil, paper and erasers) will be provided by the art gallery.

This class is open to 8 students.

Linocut printmaking Class

New Class at the Art Gallery at the NWA Mall!

We will use Lino gauges to carve designs into 3 x 3-inch soft cut linoleum blocks. Then we will use ink pads to ink and stamp out carved Lino block multiple times onto paper.

Those Artists who choose to create a pattern will have the opportunity to ink their block and fill a paper with their design. Those artists who choose to create a single image will have the opportunity to ink and print multiple images on paper (a format like a polaroid) . This is also a great time to print your image into your sketchbook/journal/dot journal.

Everyone will have a carved block and printed images to take with them.

WARNING: the Lino gauges are sharp and it is possible to cut yourself. But I have been teaching linocut printmaking in public school this way and rarely anyone get cut. But it can be done.

HOMEWORK :-) look around the internet at Linocut artists for ideas and inspiration. If you have time, sketch and draw out a few ideas to bring with you.

This class is open to all 12 years old and up. Students who are younger than 16 need to be accompanied by an adult. The adult does not have to take the class, but they might want to.

Have you ever wondered how to start in watercolors? Join us Sunday, October 22 at 2pm for a beginning watercolor class. All levels of skill welcome and no drawing skills required! For ages 16 and up. The class is free.

This class will focus on the fluid nature of watercolor. We will learn how watercolor can mix and mingle on paper to create effects like no other art medium. We will also learn how to set up your art workspace, prepare the paper and paints for painting. Watch a demo on the technique called wet on wet and see examples of how to use that technique in paintings. Then create your own paintings under the guidance of Diane Stinebaugh. Diane has been painting and teaching watercolor for over 20 years.

All supplies are provided by the Art Gallery. You are welcome to bring your own.

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Learn how to use acrylic paints and techniques to create paintings of animals on rocks. All supplies are provided. For ages 16 years and older.

Learn the process of painting animals on rocks. Start by picking out a rock and then designing an animal to fit on it or picking out an animal and finding the rock it will fit on. The use markers to sketch the animal onto the rock. Using acrylic paints, start layering on the big shapes of color. Then begin the textures and details. Everyone will have a painted rock to take with them at the end of class.

PLEASE NOTE: Acrylic paints are hard to get out of clothing. If acrylic paint gets on your clothes try to wash it off right away. Or better yet, wear something that you don’t mind getting a bit messy, just in case. Acrylic is a polymer that grabs onto and sticks to all kinds of surfaces.

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Come to the Art Gallery at NWA Mall Saturday, September 2 from 2:30-4:30pm for a free watercolor class. All levels of skill welcome and no drawing skills required! Age 12 and up. Children under 16 are required to be accompanied during class by an adult.

This class will focus techniques that are unique to watercolor. You will learn brushwork and techniques that create effects like no other art medium. You will also learn how to set up your art workspace, prepare the paper and paints for painting. Watch a demo on watercolor techniques and see examples of how to use that technique in paintings. Then create your own paintings under the guidance of Gallery Artist Diane Stinebaugh. Diane has been painting and teaching painting watercolor for over 20 years.

All supplies are provided by the Art Gallery. You are also welcome to bring your own.

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New Class at the Art Gallery at the NWA Mall! For ages 16 and up.

Scratchboard art has a look all its own. The white paper is coated with black and the artists use a scratch tool to draw into the black creating white lines. The artist draws the highlights instead of the shading. Artists use a variety of marks to create the light and details. It’s a lot fun!

The first part of the class your teacher, Gallery Artist Dustin Miller, will demonstrate various marks you can make on scratchboard and how to create the sense of form. Students will have time to practice these techniques and make some discoveries on their own.

Then students will have time to create their own scratchboard drawing. If you want you can bring printed images to work with on your scratchboard or you can draw ideas in class.

Dustin will demonstrate how to transfer your image to the scratchboard and how to get started scratching in the light. He will guide students as needed as they work on their scratchboard.

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Veterans Watercolor Class. Offered to local Veterans in partnership with the local VA Hospital art therapy program. Please contact the local VA Hospital to enroll. Date is firm but time subject to change. For Veterans only. Thank you for your Service.

Veterans Watercolor Class. Offered to local Veterans in partnership with the local VA Hospital art therapy program. Please contact the local VA Hospital to enroll. Date is firm, time subject to change. For Veterans only. Thank you for your Service.

Veterans Watercolor Class. Offered to local Veterans in partnership with the local VA Hospital art therapy program. Please contact the local VA Hospital to enroll. For Veterans only. Thank you for your Service.

A class offered to our local Veterans through the local VA Hospital’s Art Therapy Program. Please contact the VA Hospital to enroll. For Veterans only. Thank you for your Service.