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Screen-Printing with Ink & Dyes on Textiles (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn how to put a stencil onto a screen and print. Explore the differences between printing with inks and dyes and their reactions on different fabrics
Create Your Own Artist Books (Ages 8-12)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn to make books from scratch! Explore new techniques to make sketchbooks and books that transform into sculptural objects. We will make a sketchbook, a starburst book, and a 3D pop-up book that tells a story through printed images. Discover relief printing techniques to produce illustrated pages for your creations.
Book Repair Studio (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn how to repair books, using archival materials to extend the lifetime of the book. Each book may require different repair methods, thus long stitch, coptic binding and casebound demos will be presented to best facilitate the needs of each individual book. All material will be included except for books, no previous experience required. Required Materials: Bring books with torn bindings, damaged covers or pages that need to be resewn.
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Exploring Mosaics
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Spend two afternoons exploring the colorful and textured properties of ceramic tile and glass. Learn about breaking and cutting tile, adhesives and substrates. Go home with a mosaic piece and the desire to make more! All materials provided. Feel free to bring in your personal collections of glass, tile, buttons, etc.
Creating Digital Collages With Photos and Other Media
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
You will use photos stored on your iPad or iPhone and images we will create in class to make amazing computer-generated collages. You will also learn how to use images of your art to create new ideas and how to make unique abstracted designs for wearables like t-shirts. This is a great chance to use photos on your Apple devices to create art.
$170
Beginning Mosaics (Ages 9-13)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Young artists will discover the magic of mosaics! Students will learn the basics of mosaic making. The class will culminate in creating a mirror with a mosaic frame.
Plein Air in the City
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Draw and paint outside the Caldwell Lily Pool, Lincoln Park Conservatory or Garfield Park Conservatory. Work in drawing mediums and or watercolors and watercolor pencils. Focus includes instruction on creating quick thumbnail sketches, composition, and color. Dress appropriately for changing weather, sun protection, and summer insects.
Botany for Botanical Artists
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Bring realism to your botanical artwork with a focus on identifying the morphological features of plants. Emphasizing specific plant parts in illustrations is critical to the identification of plant species in both scientific floras and identification manuals. Through a combination of lectures and lab/studio time, you will identify key characteristics in each plant specimen and then transfer them to botanical illustrations. A supply list will be...
$374
Landscape Painting with Water-Based Mediums
Water-based paint mediums allow artists the freedom to explore color; create layers, experiment; and make quick changes in their compositions. This Winter; explore your favorite landscapes while learning about color, gesture, form, and other elements crucial to a strong landscape painting. Gouache; watercolor, acrylic, and other water-based mediums are welcome. Instructor will provide photographic references or bring...
Lighting Effects Workshop
Bring a painting you are struggling with and Didier will help you think about light? Working in your choice of medium (oil, acrylic, charcoal, graphite, or pastel) Didier will show you how to create correct light. Bring a piece that you had started or start a new piece from scratch using a photo reference. Light gives a sense of dimension, mood, and life. Didier Nolet is an artist who has perfected the use of light in his art. He will share...
From Drawing to Painting (Ages 16+)
We’ll begin each class with drawing exercises, and then use those drawings as tools to painting. Learn to see deeper, express yourself both intuitively and through observation, and simply indulge in the pleasure of making. Work from still lives you create yourself, as well as reference photos. In drawing you will work with line, gesture, cross hatch and tone. The paintings will expand upon these ideas. There will be lessons for beginners, and...
Mosaics
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
In this multi-level class, students learn the process of creating a mosaic piece: Cutting tile Layout and design Substrates Adhesives and grouting You are welcome to bring your own collection of ceramic/glass and found objects to incorporate into your work. Some material provided.
Paint Your Heart Out
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Awaken your creative insticts and collaborate with a group of kindred spirits while working in the EAC studio environment. Learn to access you uncensored voice and free yourself from limiting opinions of what is considered acceptable artmaking. In this class, students elevate painting skills by exploring paint application methods and mediums. Develop personal imagery and invent on a 2D surface. Bring acrylics, oils, watercolors or gouache. Supply...
Color As an Object: Painting with Color
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Want to grow your practice with color in either oil or acrylic? We’ll begin with the basics of color theory, and progress through creating color swatches and learning about our materials, ultimately creating two paintings that demonstrate the main principles of color theory. Paintings will either be abstract or from references you bring. To expand on these foundational building blocks, we will begin to experiment with color as an object,...
Travel Sketch
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Learn how to maximize your time as you sketch and draw the landscapes during your travels. Emphasis includes how to extract your vision from the landscape using elements of composition; how to render basic forms of the landscape and incorporate line, gesture, and value; and how to add color. Using water-based pens and colored pencils, you will begin your own travel sketchbooks using inspirational travel photos. Water-soluble sketch pens will be...
Painting Vibrant Flora & Landscapes in Oils
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Render flowers and landscapes richly and beautifully in oil paints! Discover how to achieve vibrant, confident artworks that convey a sense of light, shadow, and sculptural form. Color mixing and brush stroke application will also be a major focus. You will start with a paint-along demonstration, then work on your own choice of subject. Supply List *Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Colours: all 37 ml size tubes except for white, which...
Pushing The Figure: Abstraction and Beyond
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Designed for the figurative painter who wishes to challenge their way of seeing and representing the figure beyond traditional rendering. You will be exposed to the work of Nathan Oliveira, Elaine de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, and Barbara Knoll, among many other contemporary abstract figurative painters. Re-interpreting figure/ground relationships, use of color, and mark-making within the context of exploring abstraction and strong design...
Painting, Color and Design
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Get introduced to stimulating color and design methods. Learn how to progress from idea to sketch to painting to both enrich creativity and bring a sense of order to your artwork. Personalize your color palette, and work with the principles of pictorial structure to help you develop an exciting and cohesive body of work. Acrylic or oil paint, charcoal, graphite or colored pencils will be used. Bring what supplies you have to the first class.
Painted Floorcloths (Ages 16+)
Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL
Design your own floorcloth, an Early American art form of floor coverings. Learn various techniques: staining, stenciling, geometric design or free hand images. Display on the floor or use as a wall-hanging. Bring on the first day of class: Any sketch pad Any pencil If the student already has acrylic paint and/or brushes, it is recommended that they come to class the first day before buying any new art materials.
Plein Air Painting and Sketching
Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL
Create art inspired by nature in oil or acrylic. Learn how to translate the beauty and complexity of the natural world into drawings and paintings. We will alternate working onsite (likely Skokie Lagoons) and at home (via Zoom) while we learn ways to render skies, plant life, and water. Concepts will be explained via lectures so students have a strong grasp of the fundamentals before we head outside. This class will only take place outdoors and on...
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