Classes

This course is designed for beginning students who wish to experience a variety of printmaking methods and materials. The class will explore the traditional technique of etching, and play with spontaneous response to monoprint and chine-colle techniques.

This workshop will teach students the mastery and craft of printing traditional black and white film negatives onto large sheets of mural size paper. Using PVC plumbing tubes and the St. Louis Artists' Guild's darkroom, students will create poster-size prints 42" wide by several feet high. The basics of developing and enlarging will also be taught.

This workshop will allow participants to discover, or re-acquaint themselves with, black and white film photography and printing. Use of 35mm SLR is encouraged, however ANY film camera can be used for class. Field tips and studio work can take place in class.

Perfect for beginners and advanced artists alike! Students will gain experience in an enormous variety of materials in this hands-on class. Like to draw? Paint? Sculpt? Here, anything goes! Get in touch with your creativity through projects that are full of surprises and play!

Through combining recycled materials and very inexpensive papers, students will create an art journal and learn how to develop images and pages with everyday objects. Each week will offer a different theme where we will begin new pages and inspirations. This course is great for a range of experience levels in art and craft from beginner to advanced.

This class will teach students the basics of narrative illustration. Students will each choose a well-known simple short story, which will be broken down into a short list of plot points. An illustration will be created for each plot point. The foundations of narrative art will be stressed, including planning the illustrations with thumbnail sketches and roughs, effectively communicating emotion and action, contrasting tonal values to  create a readable image, and rendering finished full-color illustrations.

If you have an interest in learning basic drawing just for fun, relaxation, and enjoyment—you should join this class! Anyone who can use a pencil to draw a line on paper (straight or crooked) is qualified for this class. No experience necessary! We begin with learning to draw basic shapes: cube, cone, sphere, and rectangle. You will discover new ways of seeing as we build your drawing skills. Students quickly improve the quality of their drawing by practicing line, proportion, space, value and composition all at the same time.

This class is designed for beginners and anyone wanting to further their skills and expand their knowledge in drawing. Students will learn to work with media such as charcoal, graphite, pastels, and wash. We will deal with issues concerning perspective, composition, value, shading, and other forms of rendering. Subject matter will include still-life, nature and architecture (working outdoors), figurative, and subject matter chosen by students.

This class is for anyone from the beginning painter to the experienced artist. We will focus on different aspects of painting, such as color mixing and theory, composition, under-painting, mixed-media, etc. We will solve issues concerned with creating images using this particular medium. The class will learn to work from still-lifes, photographs, plein air (painting outdoors) and from life.

Watch the elements of Art, Math, Science, Symbols and your imagination come alive as you create your own masterpiece ... each class will explore the elements of art to incorporate personal symbols, visual thinking strategies, art vocabulary, and science to develop our ability to translate the imagined into a physical reality. Ages: 9–14.