Spring Flowers Paint & Sip
Translate the organic shapes of flowers, foliage, and foraged elements into stunning works of art using paint and ink — under the expert guidance of Elizabeth McKoy. All materials provided.
Art Classes
Open for Registration
ClassPaint/Sketch — Session 1
6-week series
Tuesdays, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM · Sep 8 – Oct 13
A 6-week daytime painting, sketching, and coaching class with Elizabeth. Tuesdays, Sep 8 – Oct 13. $225. 5-day cancellation — credit only.
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Paint/Sketch — Session 1
6-week series
Wednesdays, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM · Sep 2 – Oct 7
A 6-week evening painting and sketching class for adults, new and continuing. Wednesdays, Sep 2 – Oct 7. $225. 5-day cancellation — credit only.
ClassGreat Artists' Footsteps: Women Who Changed Art — Session 1
6 classes
Thursdays, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM · Sep 3 – Oct 8
Six classes exploring women who changed art. Thursdays, Sep 3 – Oct 8. $225. 5-day cancellation — credit only.
Paint to Sketch
For new and continuing students
With Elizabeth
Deepen your drawing and painting skills in this hands-on workshop — designed for returning students and welcoming to newcomers.
Learn techniques to accurately sketch what you see and build convincing depth, texture, and movement.
Then expand into color — explore expressive approaches with pastels, watercolor, or acrylics, and learn how to harmonize value, hue, and brushwork to make your paintings come alive. Projects, demonstrations, and individualized feedback.
- Sketching
- Composition
- Balance
- Color
- Line
Great Artists’ Footsteps
This curriculum offers a hands-on exploration of the techniques, ideas, and creative lives of influential artists. Working in their footsteps, participants connect art history to their own practice through direct making—moving from observation into experience.
Five Women Artists Who Changed the Art World
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Frida Kahlo
- Faith Ringgold
- Lee Krasner
- Ruth Asawa
In this exciting hands-on course, we’ll delve into the lives and studios of Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Faith Ringgold, Lee Krasner, and Ruth Asawa—five extraordinary women who transformed the history of art through courage, innovation, and unmistakable personal vision.
We’ll play and explore, hands-on, how each artist used techniques and signature styles such as color, composition, scale, pattern, storytelling, and symbolism to create work that will inspire your own creations.
This is not an art-skill class—it’s a hands-on art history workshop series.
You’ll quickly discover why these artists continue to inspire artists around the world.
Over the series you’ll experiment with:
- Georgia O'Keeffe’s bold simplification and a dramatic sense of scale.
- Frida Kahlo’s rich symbolism and deeply personal storytelling.
- Faith Ringgold’s vibrant color, narrative, and joyful pattern.
- Lee Krasner’s energetic abstraction and fearless mark-making.
- Ruth Asawa’s looped-wire sculpture, organic form, drawing, and art rooted in everyday life.
This series isn’t about copying these artists’ work—it’s about discovering the creative principles behind them and using those ideas to inspire and strengthen your own artistic voice.
Expect inspiring stories, fascinating art history, lively discussion, bite-size exercises, and short projects every class session.
Perfect for everyone who is creatively curious and ready to discover new ways of seeing, making, and expressing themselves.
- There is still room
- Each class is different
- Beginners welcome
All levels welcome
$225 for six classes
Spiral Teaching ofArt
One of the things I love most about teaching visual art is that there is always more to discover.
You don’t learn drawing, check it off the list, and move on to painting. The skills keep circling back, connecting, and deepening as you grow.
The more you learn about drawing, the more it can inform your painting—and vice versa.
Sketch to Paint Classes
Throughout the six weeks, I weave together drawing skills—such as line, shape, shadow, perspective, and how to create a three-dimensional form—with painting skills like color mixing, value, brushwork, composition, and working with acrylic paint.
I begin each class by demonstrating a technique, and then we apply what we’ve learned through one or more short, fun, and easy exercises to practice and integrate the learning.
I then offer a prompt or suggestions for the painting project, but everyone is always free to paint and express whatever and however they want. I adore being available to answer questions and to coach and facilitate exploration. In this way, I can individualize each student’s process.
At the end of each class, we turn to a key part of the learning: reflection, not critique.
Reflection is part of the spiral, too. We don’t begin by asking, What’s wrong with my work?
We start by looking carefully at what is working.
Then you decide what, if anything, you’re curious about improving:
- What do I want to change?
- What is the canvas telling you it needs next?
- What do I want to understand more deeply?
The group learns exponentially from watching each other learn, ask questions, and bravely work on growing as artists.
Everyone learns and grows more than they thought possible.
Art Studio Practice
Previous Classes
Workshops and series that wrapped recently — let us know if you’d like to see them come back.
Color, Value & Composition
Build confidence while learning the essential skills that make your paintings stronger — color, value, and composition. Each session includes playful exercises plus a painting project at the end of each night.
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