Drop in Classes
Figure Drawing – Evenings
Offered: Monday, 7-10pm & 2nd Thursdays, 7-10pm
Levels: Previous drawing experience required.
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $16 non-members, $14 members, $10 students. Not a member?
Facilitated by Open Studio Artist Richard Bennett. Drawing the human figure is acknowledged to be the best foundation for learning the process of really seeing …
Series Classes
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Introduction to Acrylics
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Erin Hunter
Offered: Saturday Afternoon, 1/25/2020 12:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 one price for all
Acrylic paint is a fast-drying, versatile medium that can be used to create a wide range of techniques—it can be used for thick, textured effects, …
Watercolor-Negative Space Painting – Class is Full!
Levels: All
Instructor: Cynthia Armstrong
Offered: 6 Tuesday mornings, beginning 01/28/20 9:30am-12pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $170.75/$150.00 members
This course is will demystify negative painting for beginners and intermediate watercolor artists. From shape-making (working with positive and negative shapes), simplified design strategies to …
Fundamentals of Realism I-Evening Series
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Laurel Bushman
Offered: 4 Wednesday Evenings, starting 2/5/20 5:30-8:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $120/$105.42 members
Over the course of this 4-week series, students will learn fundamental elements of realism drawing, composition and technique. Emphasis will be placed on how to …
Pastels for the Enthusiastic Beginner: Getting Started with Soft Pastels – Class is Full!
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Erika Perloff
Offered: Saturday Morning, 2/8/2020 9:00am-3:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Come get immersed in the world of soft pastels. In this one day intensive class you will learn the basics of working with this vibrant, …
Beginning Floral Oil Painting Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Thalia Stratton
Offered: One Sunday afternoon, 2/9/20 12:00pm-4:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $89.00, one price
Working with the accomplished artist Thalia Stratton, students will be learning valuable fundamentals in the beautiful art of floral oil painting. She will cover important …
Rough Cut: An Introduction to Linoleum Block Printmaking – Class is Full!
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Molly Brown
Offered: 2 Sunday mornings, starting 2/16/2020 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 one price for all
This course is intended to whet the palate, to generate inquiries, and get familiar with the basic tools and techniques of relief block printing. There …
Watercolors-Thurs (Feb-Mar) 5-Week Series
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Linda Lord
Offered: 5 Thursday afternoons, starting 2/20/20 1:00pm-3:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $144.56/$127 for members
This class is geared to facilitate those who have never painted and those who have advanced their skills. Most class sessions will include a demo …
Beginning Watercolors-Fridays (Feb-Mar) 5 Week Series
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Linda Lord
Offered: 5 Friday afternoons, starting 2/21/20 1:00pm-3:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $144.56/$127 for members
This class is aimed at familiarity of materials, as well as why to chose them. In the 5 week, we will endeavor to produce 5 …
4 Ways to Draw Anything!
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 2/22/20 12:00pm-6:00pm, Including lunch break
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Drafting skills are essential to traditional art—the better you can draw and render with a pencil, the better you can do so with your paint. …
Let’s Get Serie-ous; Creating a Series of Artwork
Levels: Advanced Painters
Instructor: Carrie Clayden
Offered: 6 Monday afternoons, starting 2/24/20 1:00pm-3:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $170.75/$150.00 members
This class is for advanced painters who want to set goals, create a series of 10 paintings in a theme and show the finished pieces …
Botanical Beauty of Spring
Levels: All, some drawing experience helpful
Instructor: Maria Cecilia "Cissy" Freeman
Offered: 1 Sunday Morning 3/1/20 9:30am-3:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 - one price for this class
Buds and flowers and new leaves – Spring offers fresh colors and textures, and many beautiful plant subjects to paint. In traditional botanical art we strive …
Drawing Portraits the Easy Way
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Robert Dvorak
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 3/7/20 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00, one price
DRAWING PORTRAITS THE EASY WAY You can easily learn to draw a portrait. Don’t waste your time trying to learn to draw portraits from a …
Creative Watercolor Methods and Techniques
Instructor: Robert Dvorak
Offered: One Sunday afternoon, 3/8/20 10:00am-4:00pm *Sharp
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00, one price
CREATIVE WATERCOLOR METHODS AND TECHNIQUES This class is for people who like to paint watercolors or who would like to get back to painting. This …
Pastel Studio (Mar-Apr) 5 Weeks
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Joan Hellenthal
Offered: 5 Fridays, Beginning 3/13/2020 9:30am-12:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $144.56/$127 members
The perfect way to start the weekend….loosen up and have fun with pastels! Using expressive marks and color we will paint vibrant landscapes and still …
Colored Pencil Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Laurel Bushman
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 3/14/2020 12:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 - one price
Colored pencil is a versatile medium that is portable, inexpensive and great for mixing with other media from watercolor to marker. A huge variety of …
Fundamentals of Realism II -Evening Series
Levels: Some experience drawing needed
Instructor: Laurel Bushman
Offered: 4 Wednesday Evenings, starting 3/18/2020 5:30-8:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $120/$105.42 members
In this following series to Fundamentals of Realism I, students will build upon the lessons they learned in the introduction to realism course. We will …
Color Theory: Choosing Emotive Limited Color Schemes
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: One Sunday Afternoon, 3/22/20 12pm-6pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Color Theory can be intimidating and tedious, but not anymore! Learn about the various color schemes, how to choose an emotive limited palette suited for …
Take Your Acrylic Painting to the Next Level – Class is Full!
Levels: Some painting experience required
Instructor: Wayne Jiang
Offered: One full weekend, Fri 3/27/20-Sun 3/29/20 10:00am-5:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $251.00/$220.50 members price
The talented Wayne Jiang will be returning to California and will teach another 3 day workshop at the Santa Cruz Art League, March 2020. His …
Sketching With Watercolor, Pen & Ink
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Bonni Carver
Offered: 1 Saturday Afternoon, 4/4/20 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Watercolor and pen and ink are the perfect portable media through which any place or setting can become a springboard for a creative sketch. …
The Value of Grisaille Underpainting
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: One Saturday Afternoon, 4/18/20 12:00pm-6:00pm, Including lunch break
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Create a lovely painting using layers of watercolor in the historical grisaille value under-painting method, while also developing wet-in-wet, wet-on-dry, and glazing painting techniques in …
Weekend Workshops
Introduction to Acrylics
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Erin Hunter
Offered: Saturday Afternoon, 1/25/2020 12:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 one price for all
Acrylic paint is a fast-drying, versatile medium that can be used to create a wide range of techniques—it can be used for thick, textured effects, …
Pastels for the Enthusiastic Beginner: Getting Started with Soft Pastels – Class is Full!
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Erika Perloff
Offered: Saturday Morning, 2/8/2020 9:00am-3:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Come get immersed in the world of soft pastels. In this one day intensive class you will learn the basics of working with this vibrant, …
Beginning Floral Oil Painting Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Thalia Stratton
Offered: One Sunday afternoon, 2/9/20 12:00pm-4:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $89.00, one price
Working with the accomplished artist Thalia Stratton, students will be learning valuable fundamentals in the beautiful art of floral oil painting. She will cover important …
Rough Cut: An Introduction to Linoleum Block Printmaking – Class is Full!
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Molly Brown
Offered: 2 Sunday mornings, starting 2/16/2020 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 one price for all
This course is intended to whet the palate, to generate inquiries, and get familiar with the basic tools and techniques of relief block printing. There …
4 Ways to Draw Anything!
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 2/22/20 12:00pm-6:00pm, Including lunch break
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Drafting skills are essential to traditional art—the better you can draw and render with a pencil, the better you can do so with your paint. …
Botanical Beauty of Spring
Levels: All, some drawing experience helpful
Instructor: Maria Cecilia "Cissy" Freeman
Offered: 1 Sunday Morning 3/1/20 9:30am-3:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 - one price for this class
Buds and flowers and new leaves – Spring offers fresh colors and textures, and many beautiful plant subjects to paint. In traditional botanical art we strive …
Drawing Portraits the Easy Way
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Robert Dvorak
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 3/7/20 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00, one price
DRAWING PORTRAITS THE EASY WAY You can easily learn to draw a portrait. Don’t waste your time trying to learn to draw portraits from a …
Creative Watercolor Methods and Techniques
Instructor: Robert Dvorak
Offered: One Sunday afternoon, 3/8/20 10:00am-4:00pm *Sharp
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00, one price
CREATIVE WATERCOLOR METHODS AND TECHNIQUES This class is for people who like to paint watercolors or who would like to get back to painting. This …
Colored Pencil Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Laurel Bushman
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 3/14/2020 12:00pm-5:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00 - one price
Colored pencil is a versatile medium that is portable, inexpensive and great for mixing with other media from watercolor to marker. A huge variety of …
Color Theory: Choosing Emotive Limited Color Schemes
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: One Sunday Afternoon, 3/22/20 12pm-6pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Color Theory can be intimidating and tedious, but not anymore! Learn about the various color schemes, how to choose an emotive limited palette suited for …
Take Your Acrylic Painting to the Next Level – Class is Full!
Levels: Some painting experience required
Instructor: Wayne Jiang
Offered: One full weekend, Fri 3/27/20-Sun 3/29/20 10:00am-5:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $251.00/$220.50 members price
The talented Wayne Jiang will be returning to California and will teach another 3 day workshop at the Santa Cruz Art League, March 2020. His …
Sketching With Watercolor, Pen & Ink
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Bonni Carver
Offered: 1 Saturday Afternoon, 4/4/20 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Watercolor and pen and ink are the perfect portable media through which any place or setting can become a springboard for a creative sketch. …
The Value of Grisaille Underpainting
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: One Saturday Afternoon, 4/18/20 12:00pm-6:00pm, Including lunch break
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
Create a lovely painting using layers of watercolor in the historical grisaille value under-painting method, while also developing wet-in-wet, wet-on-dry, and glazing painting techniques in …
Components of Landscape in Watercolor
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: JoNeal Graves
Offered: 1 Sunday afternoon, 4/19/20 10:00am-4:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99, one price
This one day workshop will include studies of the most basic elements/features found in landscape paintings. We will paint, trees, shrubs, hills, mountains, skies and …
