2025 Summer Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Paint Your Best Floral in Any Medium
Saturday, 7/19/2025, 9:30 to 4:00
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=253PTFL030
Pet Portraits Made Easy
Sunday, 8/3/2025, 1:00 to 5:00
Create a portrait of your pet using oils, acrylics, pastels, pencil or charcoal. Bring at least one 8" x 10" photo 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.
Pay $5.00 Materials Fee to instructor if you want to try pastels, or bring your own supplies.
See www.spruillarts.org for more information on the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=253DWPP020
2025 Summer Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Sunday Sunflower Workshop
Sunday, 8/17/2025 noon to 5:00
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. Bring a snack.
See www.spruillarts.org for more information on the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=253PTSW100
2025 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Anyone Can Learn to Draw - Part 2
Sunday, 3/30/2025 to 4/6/2025, 1:00 to 4:00
For those who have taken Anyone Can Learn to Draw or have some drawing experience, this course will concentrate on learning the principles of perspective and incorporating those principles into landscapes with buildings and trees. Learn how to create a dynamic composition with a range of values, textures, shapes and marks. You'll acquire skills that will aid you in outdoor sketching and prepare you for painting. Work from your reference photos or photos provided by the instructor using graphite or charcoal.
Bring your own supplies or pay a $10.00 supply fee to the instructor at the first class.
Paint Like Monet
Saturday, 5/3/2025, 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.
2025 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Get to Know Watercolor Pencils
How to Paint Your Best Landscape in Any Medium
How to Paint Your Best Landscape in Any Medium
Saturday, 6/7/2025, 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=252DWWP110
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
Saturday, 6/14/2025, 9:30 to 3:30
Learn the fundamentals of successful landscape painting in this one day immersive class. 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, and bring harmony to your composition. Work in any paint medium or pastels. Since this is a one day class, the instructor recommends using acrylic over oils since oils usually require several successive sessions. There will be plenty of individual guidance to help each student succeed whether at a beginner or intermediate level. https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=252PTLM010
2025 Winter Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
The Joy of Painting With Pastels
Sunday, 3/9/2025 and 3/16/2025, 1:00 to 5:00
For beginner or intermediate students looking for a new medium for studio or on-site sketching. Pastels are like drawing with a palate of readymade colored sticks. Turn your landscape photos into works of art while you learn to use pastels. Learn how to create an underpainting and layer pastels using a variety of techniques and different paper colors. You will complete a simple landscape painting during the first class. Bring 8 - 10 favorite landscape photos with good lighting. Pay $10.00 Materials Fee to instructor at workshop, or bring your own supplies.
For Supply List and more information on instructor, go to www.spruillarts.org.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=251DWPI040
2024 Summer Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Sharpen Your Drawing Skills in One Day
Saturday, 7/20/2024, 9:30 to 3:30
For students who have taken Anyone Can Learn to Draw or anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills. You will learn about composition, perspective, shading, proportion and accurate representation of different types of forms working in graphite and charcoal.
The class will start with simple exercises and expand into finished drawings. Bring a sack lunch.
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.
https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=243DWDS010
Pet Portraits Made Easy
Sunday, 8/4/2024, 1:00 to 5:00
Create a portrait of your pet using oils, acrylics, pastels, pencil or charcoal. Bring at least one 8" x 10" photo 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.
Pay $5.00 Materials Fee to instructor if you want to try pastels, or bring your own supplies.
See www.spruillarts.org for more information on the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class.
2024 Summer Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Sunday Sunflower Workshop
Sunday, 8/25/2024, 12:00 to 5:00
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. Bring a snack.
See www.spruillarts.org for more information on the instructor and a list of supplies you will need to bring to class. https://registration.spruillarts.org/wconnect/ace/CourseStatus.awp?&course=243PTSW100
2024 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Get to Know Watercolor Pencils
Saturday, 6/8/2024, 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
2024 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Draw and Paint Like Van Gogh
Draw and Paint Like Van Gogh
Draw and Paint Like Van Gogh
Saturday, 4/6/2024, 9:30 to 3:30
Van Gogh's later work was known for its emotionally patterned and brightly colored oil paintings. We'll recapture Van Gogh's spirit by applying his techniques to our own paintings using your choice of pastel, acrylic or oil paint. You may also choose to create drawings to emulate VanGogh's mark making in pen & ink, Conte crayon or pencil on white drawing paper. For beginner and intermediate levels. Bring a sack lunch and several landscape photos with trees and fields.
Draw and Paint Like Van Gogh
Draw and Paint Like Van Gogh
Draw and Paint Like Van Gogh
Saturday, 4/6/2024, 9:30 to 3:30
Van Gogh's later work was known for its emotionally patterned and brightly colored oil paintings. We'll recapture Van Gogh's spirit by applying his techniques to our own paintings using your choice of pastel, acrylic or oil paint. You may also choose to create drawings to emulate VanGogh's mark making in pen & ink, Conte crayon or pencil on white drawing paper. For beginner and intermediate levels. Bring a sack lunch and several landscape photos with trees and fields.
2024 Spring Classes at the Spruill Arts Center
Paint Flowers Like Georgia O'Keeffe
Saturday, 5/5/2024, 9:30 to 3:30
Study Georgia O'Keeffe's use of color and composition to create a painting in her style using pastels, oils, or acrylics. We'll work from live flowers to emulate the timeless appeal of her simplified shapes and vibrant colors. The class would make a wonderful Mother’s Day gift for mothers looking for experiences rather than tangible gifts. See www.spruillarts.org for information about the instructor, and for a list of supplies you will need to bring to class. Bring a sack lunch.
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.
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.