2026 Fall Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Sketch With Ink and Watercolor
How to Paint Your Best Landscape in Any Medium
Sketch With Ink and Watercolor
Sunday, September 20, 2026, 1:00 to 5:00
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. Work from your landscape photos or instructor provided file of photos. (Instructor will provide photos for students without their own.)
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Anyone Can Learn to Draw
How to Paint Your Best Landscape in Any Medium
Sketch With Ink and Watercolor
Friday, October 16,2026 to
November 20, 2026, 10:00 to 12:30
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.
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How to Paint Your Best Landscape in Any Medium
How to Paint Your Best Landscape in Any Medium
How to Paint Your Best Landscape in Any Medium
Sunday, From October 18, 2026 to November 8, 2026 , 1:00 to 4:00
Learn the fundamentals of successful landscape painting in this course. Learn how to select a good reference photo, edit the photo, look for the source of light, mix paint colors, apply the paint (or pastel), properties of paint brushes, substrates, and bring harmony to your composition. Work in any paint medium or pastels. During the first session we will all work from the same simple reference photo. Then in subsequent sessions you work from your photos or the instructor’s photos. There will be plenty of individual guidance to help each student succeed whether at a beginner or intermediate level.
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2026 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Get to Know Watercolor Pencils
Saturday, 5/2/2026, 9:30 to 3:30
Perfect for beginners with little art experience. Watercolor pencils combine the fluidity of watercolor with the control of colored pencils. Sets of watercolor pencils are small enough to pack into a crowded suitcase or carry-on bag for vacation sketching. We'll work on a variety of exercises that explore the properties of watercolor pencils. Bring several landscape photos as source material and a sack lunch. Pay a $5 Material Fee TO THE INSTRUCTOR, or bring your own supplies. See www.spruillarts.org for information about the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=262DWWP110
2026 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Anyone Can Learn to Paint A Floral
Saturday, 6/6/2026, 9:30 to 3:30
Floral paintings started with the Dutch in the 1600s, continued though the Impressionist era and morphed into the modernistic paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. Learn to create your best floral painting in your style using oils, acrylics, pastel or watercolors. We will focus on composition, point of view, color harmony, background colors, and color mixing. We'll use cut flowers I will provide or flowers you provide from your garden or a store. You may choose to depict flowers in a vase or a close-up of a few flowers. Whether your style is realistic, abstract or impressionistic, you will go home with a finished painting.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=262PTPT125
2026 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Paint Like Monet
Saturday, 6/13/2026, 9:30 to 3:30
Apply Monet's Impressionist techniques to the study of color, light, and composition while you increase your painting skills in oils, acrylics or pastels. You will create your own landscape paintings based on my reference photos from Monet's gardens in Giverny and/or your own landscape photos. Bring a sack lunch and landscape photos with good lighting, water, or foliage. For the Supply List and more information about the instructor, go to www.spruillarts.org.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=262PTPM010