Winter/Spring 2025 Registration OPENS Jan.21 at CAC Thursdays 1:00-4:00 Class starts Feb. 6th Work on your own project in conjunction with structured group instruction in Mentoring & Color Mixing/Theory for Advanced Painters. Take a deeper dive into exploring various color palettes and color schemas that will reinforce strong compositional designs in your paintings. If you've been painting for many years, or you've taken Shawn's other color mixing classes, this is a fitting opportunity to continue to expand your knowledge!

Winter/Spring 2025 Registration OPENS Jan.21 at CAC Thursdays 5:30-8:30 Class starts Feb. 6th Covers basic color mixing, color theory, compositional design, and a variety of methods (how we plan the painting, stylize the painting, and apply the paint - mark making). If you have taken any of Shawn's Fundamentals classes, this will be a good way to continue learning. Accommodates beginners, as we review the basics, first!

Next date to be announced Learn new ways to reinterpret your photos, fully utilizing design & color, all during the planning stages. Your knowledge will deepen about each stage of planning: composition, sizing, what to leave in, add, emphasize or modify in order to create an engaging artwork from even the most ordinary photo! *Not suitable for beginners or intermediate level

Coming in May 2025! This class teaches you to see and draw correct proportions, linear perspective and atmospheric perspective. Use pencil & charcoal to learn what to look for when drawing objects and landscapes. Learning styles vary; in this class yours will be accommodated by a variety of methods, techniques, props and supportive illustrations. *Suitable for all levels

Coming in summer of 2025 at Old Hickory Art Center

This 3-hour workshop gives you experience using “Fauve” style, emphasizing painterly qualities & bold color over more realistic values. Everyone goes home with their own unique painting! *Suitable for all levels

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This workshop gives you direct experience using heavy bodied paints to create highly textured, wet-on-wet blended paintings. An exciting, fun, experimental method that’s great for loosening up and tapping into spontaneous creative energy and flow!

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This 1-day This 3-hour workshop teaches you how to use pastels the way they were intended… to get brilliant results! Appropriate for beginners and advanced students alike, as we go step-by-step and receive plenty of individual guidance. *Suitable for all levels *All materials included in price