Time : 10:00AM - 1:00PM CDT on Sat --- Your artistic journey starts with fundamentals of watercolor painting: the art of expressing nuanced form through both transparent and opaque techniques. Whether working from your own photographs, found images, or directly from still life, you’ll develop a keen eye for detail and compositions. As the course […]

Time : 9:00AM - 12:00PM CDT on Sat --- The course introduces approaches to drawing the half figure, focusing on the face, upper body, and hands. The course provides concepts and techniques that assist the student in improving their ability to capture a likeness and graceful figure movement. This is done by annotating the anatomical […]

Time : 2:00PM - 5:00PM CDT on Tue --- For millennia, artists have delighted in drawing the human face and head. It is infinitely challenging and compelling to capture the unique combination of large and small, fixed and mobile forms that combine to produce the sitter’s likeness. This drawing course introduces the essentials of proportion, […]

Time : 9:00AM - 12:00PM CDT on Sun --- In this class, students can choose between drawing one cast the entire 6 weeks or painting 6 still lives (1 per week). Cast drawing instruction will focus on the principles of proportion and value as well as the mechanics of form, light, and shadow. Students will […]

Time : 6:30PM - 9:30PM CDT on Tue --- Open to all levels, this class will introduce various oil painting materials and analyze great paintings from the past and present. With an emphasis on chiaroscuro painting (the dramatic distribution of light and shadow in a picture), students will learn the essentials for creating dimensional, life-like […]

Time : 10:00AM - 1:00PM CDT on Wed --- This is a class designed to help with painting the portrait in Oil and Pastel, although other media are welcome. Different techniques and procedures will be demonstrated throughout the class and close, hands on instruction will be given. Drawing is an important component of painting as […]

Time : 6:30PM - 9:30PM CDT on Wed --- The purpose of this class will be to develop your confidence and a way of seeing the figure as a whole, utilizing basic anatomical landmarks and a sense of comparative proportion. Together, we will examine the physical landmark relationships inherent in the human subjects we choose […]

Time : 2:00PM - 5:00PM CDT on Wed ---   I’m so excited to be starting an oil painting 5-week painting workshop at the Palette and Chisel. I’ve been asked to do this for several years now. This year is the year. My teaching approach is very relaxed and encouraging. We’ll be showing one to […]

Time : 6:30PM - 9:30PM CDT on Wed --- Design is essential to help your art communicate and connect. It surpasses all other techniques and tools, color and yes, even value. Intent maybe the only thing more important than design. This class will help you understand and recognize the value of great design. Great design […]