Category: Past Workshops

This relaxed, fun 8 week class will help you improve your drawing skills and learn to draw what you see more accurately. Practice basic drawing techniques and explore more advanced concepts presented in an easy to understand manner. Learn about line, value, perspective, and composition. Produce quick sketches and complete drawings ranging from still life…

Enjoy the luxury of painting in oil without the mess and fumes of toxic solvents! Water mixable oils are real oil paint in which the linseed oil has been altered to allow clean up with water! Saturday & Sunday, February 17-18, 2024; 9:30am-12:30pm; presented by Jester Artspace If you’ve even been curious about what it’s…

Wednesday, April 10, Wednesday April 17, 1:30pm to 4:30 pm Community Arts Center of Wallingford, PA This 2 day workshop is an introduction to landscape painting from photographs in gouache. Gouache is a friendly, forgiving and fun medium that is essentially an opaque form of watercolor. Gouache is used more thickly than watercolor and its…

10:00 am to 3:00 pm – Presented by the Delaware Valley Art League Explore landscape painting from a photographs in gouache (opaque watercolor). Beginners can learn the fundamentals of gouache painting, and more experienced painters can improve your skills with color mixing from a limited palette, paint consistency, brush handling, and painting what you see…

Saturday & Sunday, October 21 & 22, 12:00 noon- 3:00pm Presented by Jester Artspace Two fun sessions exploring plein air painting in gouache (opaque watercolor). Beginners can learn the fundamentals of plein air painting and gouache painting, and more experienced painters can improve your skills with color mixing, paint consistency, brush handling, painting what you…

Enjoy the luxury of painting in oil without the mess and fumes of toxic solvents! Water mixable oils are real oil paint in which the linseed oil has been altered to allow clean up with water! June 3-4; 9:30-12:3; Battery Park, New Castle; presented by Jester Artspace If you’ve even been curious about what it’s…

Saturday and Sunday, June 24-25, 2023 — 9:30 am to 12:30 Rain dates: July 1-2. Enjoy the fun of “Urban Sketching”, the practice of sketching on location in cities and towns or rural areas with buildings. Urban sketching is a growing movement, with local groups and an international organization devoted to promoting the practice. In…

Presented by Jester Artspace. Improve your confidence when sketching and painting architectural subjects with a workshop in linear perspective. We’ll make basic perspective drawings, with horizon line, vanishing points and measuring points, and then learn how to apply that knowledge to sketching and painting in the field. We’ll also explore a method of drawing perspective…

Saturday & Sunday, September 24 & 25, 9:00am – 12:00pm, rain dates: October 1 & 2 — presented by the Delaware Art Museum. A weekend workshop in plein air painting in oil — the painting medium of the great masters — but without toxic solvents! This time we will be painting in the beautiful Copeland…

Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, 2022 — 9:00 am to noon Enjoy the fun of “Urban Sketching”, the practice of sketching on location in cities and towns. Urban sketching is a growing movement, with local groups and an international organization devoted to promoting the practice. In this two-day workshop on the shady green…