Classes
Student artwork from my Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting Class..
Student artwork from my Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting Class.
Student artwork from my Online Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting Class.
Student artwork from my Watercolors: Materials, Composition, and Techniques Class.
Student artwork from my Pen and Ink and Watercolor Class.
Student artwork from my Watercolors: Materials, Composition, and Techniques Class.
Fall 2025 ART CLASSES In-Person & Online: EVANSTON ART CENTER
For Registration visit:
Evanston Art Center
Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL
847-475-5300
Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting Online
Evanston Art Center
12 Week Class
Starts Thursday, September 11, 2025, #V0159
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Practice drawing techniques via lectures, warm-up drawings, and longer finished poses. Techniques may include: gesture and organizational line, contour line, shape-plane-volume-modeling, value, foreshortening, and anatomical studies. We will work from a clothed model, and have critiques, to provide a supportive class response. Choose to work in drawing and/or painting mediums.
Skill Level: All Levels
Member Rate $575/Regular Rate $595
Watercolors: Materials, Composition, and Technique In Person
Starts Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 6-week class, #0160
Starts Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6- week class, #161
Evanston Art Center
9:30 am- 12:30 pm
Create both vibrant and subdued paintings with strong compositions using watercolor tubes, and watercolor pencils. Instruction includes demos on watercolor techniques- applying watercolor washes, painting wet in wet, and painting without a sketch. Learn about staining and lightfast colors. The instructor will provide a variety of still-lifes, and these will also be available online. We will have individual and group critiques to receive supportive responses from classmates.
Skill Level: All Levels
Member Rate $260/Regular Rate $280
Pen & Ink & Watercolor In Person
Starts Friday, September 12, 2025, 6-week class #0163
Starts Friday October 24, 2025, 6-week class #0164
Evanston Art Center
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Using still life and reference material students will create drawings and paintings using a variety of pens–dip pens, micron pens, brush pens; watercolors, Dr. Martin watercolors, inks, and brushes on various papers.
Skill Level: All Levels
Member Rate $220.00/Regular Rate $240.00