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, dickbennett@baymoon.com Drawing the human figure is acknowledged to be the best foundation for learning the process of really …
Series Classes
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(LIVE ONLINE) The Value of Grisaille Underpainting
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: LIVE ONLINE, One Saturday Afternoon, 4/4/20 12:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $35.00
I this live online workshop 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, …
Assembly Required: Assemblage/Mixed Media Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Janet Silverglate
Offered: 2-Days, Sun 4/5 & Sat 4/11
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $120, one price
Learn to create unusual art pieces using recycled, found and reuse materials. Day 1 (4/5/20, 10:00am-2:00pm): In-class discussion of process, design and construction. This class …
Oil Painting from Beginning to End
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Barbara Bailey Porter
Offered: 4 Monday mornings, starting 4/6/20 9:30am-12:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $180/$158.13 members
In this class you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about oil painting. Primarily a landscape class, Barbara will demonstrate as needed, while …
Watercolors-Thursdays (Apr-May)
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Linda Lord
Offered: 6 Thursday Afternoons, starting 4/9/20 1:00pm-3:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $170.75/$150.00 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 (Apr-May)
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Linda Lord
Offered: 6 Friday afternoons, starting 4/10/20 1:00pm-3:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $170.75/$150.00 members
This class is aimed at familiarity of materials, as well as why to chose them. In the 6 week, we will endeavor to produce 6 …
(LIVE ONLINE) 5 Ways to Draw Anything! Facial Features
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: LIVE ONLINE One Saturday afternoon, 4/11/20 12:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $35.00
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 (Apr-May)
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Carrie Clayden
Offered: 6 Monday afternoons, starting 4/13/20 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 …
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 …
Get the Feel of it!: Creating a Highly Textured Canvas
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Janet Trenchard
Offered: 1 Saturday afternoon, 4/25/20 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $89.00, one price
“Student will learn how to get that highly textured canvas surface using common and uncommon materials! A highly textured surface evokes the elements of earth …
Flower Power (Studio 119 @ Tannery Arts Center)
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Carrie Clayden
Offered: One Saturday Morning 4/25/20 11:00am-4:00pm
Location: Studio199 @ Tannery Arts Center
Fee: $120, one price
Welcome blooming artists to this floral themed painting workshop taught by Carrie Clayden. Carrie is excited to be teaching her favorite theme: Flowers! I encourage …
Botanical Beauty of Spring
Levels: All, some drawing experience helpful
Instructor: Maria Cecilia "Cissy" Freeman
Offered: 1 Sunday Morning 4/26/20 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 …
Colored Pencil Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Laurel Bushman
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 5/2/2020 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 …
Beginning Floral Oil Painting
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Thalia Stratton
Offered: One Sunday Afternoon 5/3/20 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 …
Travel Sketching
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Cynthia Armstrong
Offered: 6 Tuesday mornings, starting 5/5/20 9:30am - 12:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $170.75/$150.00 members
Travel sketching & painting allows us to slow down and to be wholly present while exploring the world. Keeping an illustrated travel sketchbook enhances the …
Pastel Studio (5 Weeks)
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Joan Hellenthal
Offered: 5 Fridays, Beginning 5/8/2020 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 …
Seascape Painting in Acrylic or Oil
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Maggie Renner Hellmann
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 5/9/20 12:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $89.00 - one price
In this Seascape painting class, Maggie will help each individual student elevate their own understanding of color and it’s dominate and supportive usage in creating …
Building Blocks of Scratch Board
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Logan Parsons
Offered: 2 Saturday mornings, 5/16/20 & 5/23/20 10:30am-1:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00, one price
In this two day workshop, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of scratchboard such as, what it is, how to make marks on the …
One-Minute Drawing Class
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Robert Dvorak
Offered: One Sunday morning, 5/17/20 10am - 4pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
THE ONE-MINUTE DRAWING CLASS: Anyone can draw! This enjoyable class is for you if you: would like to be able to draw? think that you …
Seascapes in Watercolors
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Cynthia Armstrong
Offered: 6 Sunday mornings, starting 6/7/20 9:30am-12:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $170.75/$150.00 members price
This 6 week series class is a follow up and extension of the previously offered, Landscapes in Watercolor course. A combination of studio and plein …
Take it Outside: Pastels in Plein Air (Studio 119 @ Tannery Arts Center)
Levels: Some experience needed
Instructor: Erika Perloff
Offered: 2 days, Starting 06/13/20 9:00am-3:00pm, end time approximate
Location: Studio 199 @ Tannery Arts Center
Fee: $175.00, One price
Come discover the joys of landscape painting with the exciting medium of soft pastel. Pastels are vibrant, immediate, quite forgiving and ideal for taking on …
Sketching With Watercolor, Pen & Ink
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Bonni Carver
Offered: 1 Saturday Afternoon, 6/20/20 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. …
Take Your Acrylic Painting to the Next Level – Class is Full!
Levels: Some painting experience required
Instructor: Wayne Jiang
Offered: One full weekend, Fri 8/21/20-Sun 3/23/20 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 …
Weekend Workshops
Assembly Required: Assemblage/Mixed Media Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Janet Silverglate
Offered: 2-Days, Sun 4/5 & Sat 4/11
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $120, one price
Learn to create unusual art pieces using recycled, found and reuse materials. Day 1 (4/5/20, 10:00am-2:00pm): In-class discussion of process, design and construction. This class …
(LIVE ONLINE) 5 Ways to Draw Anything! Facial Features
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Hajra Meeks
Offered: LIVE ONLINE One Saturday afternoon, 4/11/20 12:00pm-3:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $35.00
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. …
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 …
Flower Power (Studio 119 @ Tannery Arts Center)
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Carrie Clayden
Offered: One Saturday Morning 4/25/20 11:00am-4:00pm
Location: Studio199 @ Tannery Arts Center
Fee: $120, one price
Welcome blooming artists to this floral themed painting workshop taught by Carrie Clayden. Carrie is excited to be teaching her favorite theme: Flowers! I encourage …
Get the Feel of it!: Creating a Highly Textured Canvas
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Janet Trenchard
Offered: 1 Saturday afternoon, 4/25/20 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $89.00, one price
“Student will learn how to get that highly textured canvas surface using common and uncommon materials! A highly textured surface evokes the elements of earth …
Botanical Beauty of Spring
Levels: All, some drawing experience helpful
Instructor: Maria Cecilia "Cissy" Freeman
Offered: 1 Sunday Morning 4/26/20 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 …
Colored Pencil Workshop
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Laurel Bushman
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 5/2/2020 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 …
Beginning Floral Oil Painting
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Thalia Stratton
Offered: One Sunday Afternoon 5/3/20 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 …
Seascape Painting in Acrylic or Oil
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Maggie Renner Hellmann
Offered: One Saturday afternoon, 5/9/20 12:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $89.00 - one price
In this Seascape painting class, Maggie will help each individual student elevate their own understanding of color and it’s dominate and supportive usage in creating …
Building Blocks of Scratch Board
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Logan Parsons
Offered: 2 Saturday mornings, 5/16/20 & 5/23/20 10:30am-1:30pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00, one price
In this two day workshop, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of scratchboard such as, what it is, how to make marks on the …
One-Minute Drawing Class
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Robert Dvorak
Offered: One Sunday morning, 5/17/20 10am - 4pm
Location: Santa Cruz Art League
Fee: $99.00
THE ONE-MINUTE DRAWING CLASS: Anyone can draw! This enjoyable class is for you if you: would like to be able to draw? think that you …
Take it Outside: Pastels in Plein Air (Studio 119 @ Tannery Arts Center)
Levels: Some experience needed
Instructor: Erika Perloff
Offered: 2 days, Starting 06/13/20 9:00am-3:00pm, end time approximate
Location: Studio 199 @ Tannery Arts Center
Fee: $175.00, One price
Come discover the joys of landscape painting with the exciting medium of soft pastel. Pastels are vibrant, immediate, quite forgiving and ideal for taking on …
Sketching With Watercolor, Pen & Ink
Levels: All Levels
Instructor: Bonni Carver
Offered: 1 Saturday Afternoon, 6/20/20 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. …
Take Your Acrylic Painting to the Next Level – Class is Full!
Levels: Some painting experience required
Instructor: Wayne Jiang
Offered: One full weekend, Fri 8/21/20-Sun 3/23/20 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 …
