2025 Summer Art Classes at Spruill Arts Center in Dunwoody
Paint Your Best Floral in Any Medium
Sunday, 9/19/2021 and 9/26/2021, 1:00 to 4:00
Learn to use ink with watercolor to capture everyday places and objects or travel scenes in a sketch book or journal with or without text. Or use the medium to depict animals, buildings, landscapes or still lifes as finished works of art. Perfect for beginners who always wanted to learn to draw or paint but never had the time, those who don't want to invest in expensive art supplies, and intermediates who want to learn a new skill. Bring a sack lunch and landscape photos.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=214DWIW010
Sunday Sunflower Workshop
Sunday, 6/12/2021, 12:30 to 4:30
Spend a fun and enlightening Sunday afternoon learning to paint a sunflower arrangement using your favorite painting medium (pastel, oil, acrylics or watercolors). Learn about composition, texture, shading and color mixing while you create a painting of these iconic flowers from a cut flower arrangement. Perfect for teens and parents or a girls' afternoon out. https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=214PTSW100
2024 Winter Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Anyone Can Learn to Draw
Anyone Can Learn to Paint a Landscape
Anyone Can Learn to Paint a Landscape
Sunday, 1/14/24, 1/21/2024 and 1/28/2024, 1:00 to 4:00
Perfect for students at all levels who want to learn drawing fundamentals so they can improve their drawing and painting skills. The class will start with simple exercises and expand into finished drawings. You'll be guided through easy methods to accurately represent line, proportion, depth, shadows and texture working with graphite and charcoal. A $10.00 Materials Fee is PAYABLE TO THE INSTRUCTOR for all course supplies, or bring your own supplies. See spruillarts.org for information regarding the instructor and additional details regarding supplies.
Anyone Can Learn to Paint a Landscape
Anyone Can Learn to Paint a Landscape
Anyone Can Learn to Paint a Landscape
Sunday, 2/25/2024 and 3/3/2024, 1:00 to 5:00
This class is for those who want easy guidelines to improve or learn how to paint a landscape in person or from a reference photo. You will find that even non-artists can learn to paint landscapes with step-by-step instructions. Use your own photos or the instructor's reference photos as a resource. Learn the principles of composition, value, color mixing, pattern and shape while creating your painting in oil, acrylic or pastel. Supply List available on spruillarts.org.
2024 Winter Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
The Joy of Painting With Pastels
Sunday, 3/10/2024 and 3/17/2024, 1:00 to 5:00
Discover why so many artists love working with a medium that combines the best of painting and drawing in convenient sticks without mixing paints and solvents. This class is for beginners and intermediates who want to learn to use pastels or sharpen their skills. We'll focus on composition, value, color, mark making and the different methods of applying pastels. Bring 8 - 10 landscape photos with good lighting and a variety of color. A $10.00 Materials Fee is PAYABLE TO THE INSTRUCTOR for all course supplies, or bring your own supplies.
2021 Fall Art Classes at Spruill Arts Center in Dunwoody
Sunday Sunflower Workshop
Sunday, 6/12/2021, 12:30 to 4:30
Spend a fun and enlightening Sunday afternoon learning to paint a sunflower arrangement using your favorite painting medium (pastel, oil, acrylics or watercolors). Learn about composition, texture, shading and color mixing while you create a painting of these iconic flowers from a cut flower arrangement. Perfect for teens and parents or a girls' afternoon out. https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=214PTSW100
Sketch With Ink and Watercolor
Sunday, 9/19/2021 and 9/26/2021, 1:00 to 4:00
Learn to use ink with watercolor to capture everyday places and objects or travel scenes in a sketch book or journal with or without text. Or use the medium to depict animals, buildings, landscapes or still lifes as finished works of art. Perfect for beginners who always wanted to learn to draw or paint but never had the time, those who don't want to invest in expensive art supplies, and intermediates who want to learn a new skill. Bring a sack lunch and landscape photos.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=214DWIW010
Anyone Can Learn to Paint a Floral
Sunday, 10/10/2021 and 10/17/2021, 1:00 to 4:00
This class is for those who want easy guidelines to improve or learn how to paint a floral painting. You will find that even non-artists can learn to paint florals with step-by-step instructions. Find your own style, whether it's a traditional floral or something more contemporary. Learn the principles of composition, value, color mixing, pattern and shape while creating your painting in oil, acrylic or pastel. https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=214PTPT125
Anyone Can Learn to Paint a Landscape
Sunday, 11/7/2021 and 11/14/2021, 1:00 to 4:00
This class is for those who want easy guidelines to improve or learn how to paint a landscape in person or from a reference photo. You will find that even non-artists can learn to paint landscapes with step-by-step instructions. Use your own photos or the instructor's reference photos as a resource. Learn the principles of composition, value, color mixing, pattern and shape while creating your painting in oil, acrylic or pastel. https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=214PTPT120
2021 Summer and Spring Art Classes at the Spruill Arts Cente
House Portraits Made Easy
Saturday, 7/24/2021 and 7/31/2021, 9:30 to 12:30
In this workshop we will use a method that makes it easier than you think to turn your home, vacation home, childhood home, or travel photo house into a work of art by using India ink or a waterproof pen and watercolor wash to create a memorable portrait. House portraits make wonderful gifts and can be printed on your holiday greeting cards. Must bring at least one 8" x 10" printed photo (not a PC or iPad). https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=213DWHP010
2022 Fall Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Paint a French Impressionist's Lunch
Saturday, 10/1/2022, 9:30 to 3:30
If you love those luscious French Impressionist paintings of tables overflowing with food and wine, this class will provide the steps to create your own scrumptious, delectable painting. Imagine you are in 19th Century France while you learn how to compose a painting with multiple patterns, shapes, textures and colors. Use oils, acrylics or pastels. Bring a sack lunch. See www.spruillarts.org for information on the instructor and supplies you need to bring to class.
Sketch a Child's Portrait
Sunday, 10/9/2022 and 10/16/2022, 1:00 to 4:00
Create a portrait of a child using oils, acrylics, pastels, colored pencil, graphite pencil or charcoal. Bring at least 3 clear photographs that are 8" x 10" with good lighting conditions and facial details, or work from your tablet or PC (not phone). If using a device, bring your power cord and extension cord. No prior experience required. If you are a beginner, you may want to work in pencil. See www.spruillarts.org for more information on the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class.
2022 Fall Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Supermarket Bouquet to Floral Painting
Supermarket Bouquet to Floral Painting
Supermarket Bouquet to Floral Painting
Saturday, 10/22/2022, 9:30 to 3:30
A supermarket bouquet can be the basis for a beautiful floral painting in oil, acrylic, pastel or watercolors. Whether your style is traditional, abstract or impressionistic, you will learn how to arrange the flowers to create a composition that balances color, shape, texture and value. Bring a medium size canvas, pastel or watercolor paper and your usual set of supplies and a sack lunch. If you don't have paint colors that would work for pink flowers, buy a tube of crimson or rose paint, because sometimes it is difficult to mix your own pink. See www.spruillarts.org for more information on the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class.
Sketching With Ink and Watercolor
Supermarket Bouquet to Floral Painting
Supermarket Bouquet to Floral Painting
Sunday, 11/6/2022 and 11/13/2022, 1:00 to 4:00
Learn to use ink with watercolor to capture everyday places and objects or travel scenes in a sketch book or journal with or without text. Or use the medium to depict animals, buildings, landscapes or still lifes as finished works of art. Perfect for beginners who always wanted to learn to draw or paint but never had the time, those who don't want to invest in expensive art supplies, and intermediates who want to learn a new skill. Bring landscape photos. See www.spruillarts.org for more information on the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class.