2026 Workshops

**2026  CLASSES PRESENTED BY ARTWORKS GALLERY

JANUARY

Parallel Perspective Basics      Thursdays 1/8/26 – 1/15/26 –1-4pm
This foundation class is intended to impart an understanding of the use of a horizon line and one vanishing point to transform 2-D shapes into 3-D forms which are viewed from the front where only one side recedes to the vanishing point.

The Basics of Watercolor Painting     Fridays 1/9/26 – 2/6/26 – 1-3pm
This is a five weeks class for those who have never used watercolors but would like to try the medium and for those who have used the medium and would like to refresh their skills.

The Landscape   Saturday 1/17/26   10am -3pm
The class is geared to learning the elements of landscape composition for beginners and those who just want to refresh their skills. It includes the use of pictorial planes, types of spatial layouts, landscape components, and compositional elements.

Angular Perspective Basics      Thursdays 1/22/26 – 1/29/26 – 1-4pm
This foundation class is intended to impart an understanding of the use of a horizon line and two vanishing points to transform 2-D shapes into 3-D forms which are viewed from an angle with both sides receding to vanishing points

Watercolor Winter Landscapes    Saturday 1/31/26      10am–3pm
Winter colors and skies are an inspiration for landscape painting. Learn the basics of painting winter landscapes by applying various composition principles, watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful winter scenes.

FEBRUARY

Pen and Ink Drawing      Thursdays 2/5/26 – 2/12/26   1-3pm
The workshop will concentrate on the different drawing techniques and their use in creating tonal values in objects when drawing with pen and ink or felt tipped pen. Any subject matter can be used.

Color Basics      Fridays 2/13/26 – 3/20/26         1-3pm
This is a six weeks series of classes is intended to impart an understanding and application of how an artist uses light and color. It includes presentations, discussions, and hands-on exercises in the Elements of Color: Hue,Chroma, Value

Metamorphous        Saturday 2/14/26   10am-3pm
Metamorphous is changing shapes within in a landscape, still life, floral, etc. to create a totally different work of art. This morphing of shapes is done by applying various techniques such as distortion, embellishment, fragmentation, perspective, simplification, etc. The work can be created with any medium desired.

Street Scenes     Thursdays 2/19/26 – 2/26/26   1–4pm
Were you ever interested in drawing street or city scenes but didn’t know where to begin? The focus of the class is learning how to draw buildings and houses in parallel perspective to create a front and side view street or city scene which can then be finished using any medium of choice.

 Winter Landscapes in Gouache   Saturday 1/21/26      10am–3pm
Winter colors and skies are an inspiration for landscape painting. Learn the basics of painting winter landscapes by applying various composition principles, watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful winter scenes.

Resist Painting         Saturday 2/28/26    10am-3pm
Resist Painting is a method of applying wax to various parts of the picture so that the applied water-based paint will not adhere to those areas. Many interesting effects and textures can be created by using rubbings or various drawing techniques. It is similar to the batik process except that is done on paper instead of fabric.

MARCH

Watercolor Wet on Wet Landscapes   Thursdays 3/5/26 – 3/12/26    1-3pm
The class focuses on applying the paints on wet paper or other wet colors which makes controlling the flow difficult but creates very interesting and pleasing results. This method is excellent for creating atmospheric effects, exaggerated forms, and soft edges.

Polymer Clay Jewelry     Saturday 3/14/26     10am-3pm
Freeform jewelry uses simple sculptural processes in polymer clay to create pins, earrings, bracelets, or necklaces. Interesting forms and textures can be created by using simple household tools, stamps, layering, incised and excised designs, beads or stones, and metallic acrylic paints.  The jewelry can be formed using only white clay and then painting with acrylic paints or combining these with colored polymer clay.

Simple Shading Techniques      Thursdays 3/19/26 – 3/26/26   1-4pm
This 2 weeks class is for people who would like to learn how to shade objects to produce dimensional effects or just sharpen already learned skills. It encompasses study of the value components, lighting, object contours, value contrasts, tonal mapping, drawing techniques, pencil grades and pressures, etc.

Negative Drawing Landscape       Saturday 3/28/26    10am–3pm
Striking contrast drawings are created by breaking a drawing into positive and negative space and shading them with only white and black colored pencils. All of the highlights in the negative or black areas of the drawing are shaded with a white colored pencil while the shadows remain the black of the paper.

APRIL

Wooden Jewelry       Saturday 4/4/26     10am-3pm
Wooden geometric and freeform shapes are used as the basis for pins, bracelets, necklaces, or earrings. The shapes are painted in desired colors; and when dry, textured papers cut in various shapes are glued onto the shapes. Interesting 3-D lines are painted onto different areas with puff paints.

Mixed Media Still Life    Thursdays   4/9/26 – 4/16/26     1-3pm
Have fun composing an interesting still life using a combination of dry and wet mediums which create interesting textures and atmospheres. The wet medium used will be watercolors and the dry colored pencils or pastels. Emphasis will be place on arranging single objects into interesting and balanced compositions based on the Principles of Design and then enhanced by texturing and shading.

Shading Basics   Fridays   4/10/26-5/1/26    1-3pm
This 4 weeks class is for people who would like to learn how to shade objects to produce dimensional effects or just sharpen already learned skills. It encompasses study of the value components, lighting, object contours, value contrasts, tonal mapping, drawing techniques, pencil grades and pressures, etc.

Watercolor Florals    Saturday 4/18/26    10am-3pm
Floral compositions will be done by using the wet-on-dry watercolor technique in the traditional method of watercolor painting.

Traditional Watercolor Landscape   Thursdays  4/23/26 – 4/30/26    1-3pm  
Learn the basics of painting summer landscapes by applying various composition principles, transparent watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful summer scenes.

Spring Landscape in Pastels   Saturday 4/25/26     10am-3pm
Chalk pastels or oil pastels are sticks of pigments that can be easily blended with swabs, tortillons, or fingers. They can be worked from light to dark or dark to light to create beautiful spring landscapes.

MAY

Designs from the Imagination       Saturday 5/2/26      10am – 3pm
Non-objective designs are created using the acrylic method of hard edge painting. Overlapping shapes are formed with masking tape and painted in with various colors. When dry, a layer of new shapes is painted on top of the shapes below. This process is continued until the desired effect is achieved’

Op Art        Thursdays   5/7/26 – 5/21/26    1-4pm
Patterns and designs are produced by using focal points and/or grids to create interesting illusions cut from paper and glued on a canvas backing.

Colored Pencil Basics    Fridays    5/8/26 – 5/29/26     1-3pm
The 4 week class focuses on the various techniques used to blend colored pencil strokes (including linear stroke, overlaying colors, scumbling, impressing, glazing, burnishing, colorless blending pencils), removing, wax build-up, and various finishing methods.

Mixed Media Florals     Saturday   5/16/26    10am – 3pm
Floral compositions will be done by combining wet and dry mediums which create interesting textures and atmospheres. The wet medium used will be watercolors and the dry colored pencils or pastels.

Spring Landscape in Watercolor    Saturday  5/23/26      10am-3pm
Have fun learning the basics of painting spring landscapes by applying various composition principles, watercolor techniques, types of landscape compositions, and aerial perspective.

JUNE

Pen and Ink Drawing      Thursday 6/4/26 – 6/11/256    1-3pm
The workshop will concentrate on the different drawing techniques and their use in creating tonal values in objects when drawing with pen and ink or felt tipped pen. Any subject matter can be used.

Gouache Landscapes      Fridays  6/5/26 – 6/12/26      1–3pm
Have fun learn the basics of painting summer landscapes by applying various composition principles, opaque watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful summer scenes.

Mixed Media Landscape      Saturday  6/6/26     10am-3pm
Have fun composing an interesting landscape using a combination of dry and wet mediums which create interesting textures and atmospheres. The wet medium used will be watercolors and the dry colored pencils or pastels. Emphasis will be place on arranging single objects into interesting and balanced compositions based on the Principles of Design and then enhanced by texturing and shading.

Positive-Negative Drawing      Saturday 6/13/26     10am–3pm
Striking contrast drawings are created by breaking a drawing into positive and negative space and shading them with only white and black colored pencils. An abstract design is cut out of black paper and glued onto a white illustration board. The selected drawing for the project is then transferred onto the illustration board. All of the shadows in the positive or white areas of the drawing are shaded in with a black pencil while the highlights remain the white of the paper. All of the highlights in the negative or black areas of the drawing are shaded with a white colored pencil while the shadows remain the black of the paper.

Colored Pencil Florals    Thursday  6/25/26    1–4pm
Flowers will be drawn on faded alcohol prints and then shaded with colored pencils to create interesting compositions

Watercolor Landscapes      Saturday 6/27/26     10am–3pm
Have fun learning the basics of painting summer landscapes by applying various composition principles, transparent watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful summer scenes.

Emphasis will be placed on the wet-on-wet technique.

JULY

Colored Pencil Landscape    Thursdays   7/9/26  – 7/16/26   1-4pm
Objects will be drawn on faded alcohol prints and then shaded with colored pencils to create realistic landscapes

Still Life Drawing     Fridays 7/10/26  – 7/17/26    1-4pm
These 2 day classes are for those who want to learn how to compose an interesting still life by using positive and negative shapes, different types of balance, spatial relationships, aerial perspective, and contrast and variety of values, colors, and textures. Any dry medium may be used

Watercolor Florals    Saturday 4/11/26    10am-3pm
Floral compositions will be done by using the wet-on-wet watercolor technique of watercolor painting.

Layered Paper   Thursdays   7/23/26  – 7/30/26      1-4pm
Layered paper drawing is technique that breaks a drawing down into a selected number of colors. All shapes that are the same color are drawn onto the same sheet of paper and then are cut out. (If there are 4 colors, 4 different color sheets will be used.) The sheets are then glued together beginning with the background color and working forward to the foreground color. Once the glue is dry, the shapes are shaded with colored pencils to create 3-D effects.

Wet on-Wet Watercolor Technique    Friday  7/24/26   1-4pm
With the wet-in-wet method of watercolor painting, the paints are applied to wet paper or other wet colors which makes controlling their flow difficult, but creates very interesting and pleasing results.  The use of various washes (flat, graded, granulated, transparent, and superimposed) also enhance the effects. This method is excellent for atmospheric effects, exaggerated forms, and soft edges. Skies and water are excellent subjects for this technique. Working in this method is really a lot of fun and exciting results and surprises occur.

Oil Pastel Landscape     Saturday  7/25/26     10am-3pm
Oil pastels are soft oil based sticks that can be easily blended with swabs, tortillons, fingers, and Baby Oil to create realistic works resembling oil paintings. They can be worked from light to dark or dark to light. The focus of the class will be using various drawing and blending techniques to create textures and three-dimensional form.

AUGUST

Polymer Clay Jewelry    Saturday   8/1/26       10am-3pm
Freeform jewelry uses simple sculptural processes in polymer clay to create pins, earrings, bracelets, or necklaces. Interesting forms and textures can be created by layering colors and using incised and excised designs.  The jewelry can be formed using only white clay and then painting with acrylic paints or combining these with different colored polymer clay.

Colored Pencil Abstracts      Thursdays   8/6/26 – 8/13/26        1-3pm

Very interesting works, especially abstracts, be created by working on dark or black background paper instead of the usual light or white.Once the layout drawing is done on the dark paper,dimensions within the various shapes are created by applyingwhite or cream colored pencil strokes in various pressures to create highlights and medium values while the deep shadows or dark areas remain the color of the background paper. With the completion of this value drawing, colors are then lightly applied over desired areas of the various forms to finish the work

 Gouache Florals    Fridays  8/7/26 – 8/14/26    1–3pm

 Floral compositions will be done by using opaque watercolor techniques

Chalk or Oil Pastel Florals    Saturday  8/15/26      10am-3pm

Chalk pastels or oil pastels are sticks of pigments that can be easily blended with swabs, tortillons, or fingers and can be worked from light to dark or dark. The focus of the class will be using various drawing and blending techniques to create textures and three-dimensional form.

Ink Wash Drawing   Thursday   8/20/26   1-4pm

India ink is applied in different value mixtures to create areas of highlights, mid-tones, and shadows in the individual objects. When dry, fine textures and details can be added using pen and ink or felt pens. Any subject matter can be used.

Mixed Media Still Life     Friday 8/21/26     1-4pm   

Have fun composing an interesting still life using a combination of dry and wet mediums which create interesting textures and atmospheres. The wet medium used will be watercolors and the dry colored pencils or pastels. Emphasis will be place on arranging single objects into interesting and balanced compositions based on the Principles of Design and then enhanced by texturing and shading.

Landscape Drawing   Saturday  8/29/26     10am-3pm

Pencils in various degrees of lightness and darkness are used to create the 3-D appearance of the objects composing the landscape, and various textures of the objects’ surfaces are created using different drawing techniques.

SEPTEMBER

Stained Glass Designs     Thursday  9/3/26      1-4pm

Interesting stained glass effects can be created with any wax or oil crayon and black ink or black paint.Resist is a method of applying wax or oil crayons of various colors to parts of the picture so that the water-based inks or paints will not adhere to those areas. Many interesting effects and textures can be created by using rubbings or drawing techniques. Any subject matter can be used for the basis of the work

Pencil or Charcoal Landscape    Fridays    9/4/26 -9/11/26   1-3pm

Pencils or charcoal in various degrees of lightness and darkness are used to create the 3-D appearance of the objects composing the landscape, and various drawing techniques are used to create the textures of the objects’ surfaces.

Early Autumn Watercolor Landscape     Thursdays   9/10/26 – 9/17/26    1-3pm

Have fun learning the basics of painting autumn landscapes by applying various composition principles, transparent watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful autumn scenes.

Cityscape    Saturday   9/12/26      10am-3pm

Were you ever interested in drawing street or city scenes but didn’t know where to begin? The focus of the class is learning how to draw buildings and houses in parallel perspective to create a front and side view street or city scene which can then be finished using any medium of choice.

OCTOBER

Watercolor Basics   Fridays 10/2/26 – 10/23/26  1-3pm  

This is a 4 weeks class for those who have never used watercolors but would like to try the medium and for those who have used the medium and would like to refresh their skills.

Linear Abstract in Acrylics   Saturday 10/3/26  10am-3pm

Linear designs are drawn on canvas with Elmer’s Glue. When the glue dries, acrylic paints in various colors are applied to emphasis the design created with the glue.

Colored Pencil Autumn Landscape      Thursdays   10/8/26 – 10/15/26      1-4pm

The 2 week class focuses on the various techniques used to blend colored pencil strokes (including linear stroke, overlaying colors, scumbling, impressing, glazing, burnishing, colorless blending pencils), removing, wax build-up, and various finishing methods.

Autumn Oil Pastel Painting   Saturday   10/17/26    10am-3pm

Oil pastels are soft oil based sticks that can be easily blended with swabs, tortillons, fingers, and Baby Oil to create realistic works resembling oil paintings. They can be worked from light to dark or dark to light to create beautiful autumn landscapes.

Watercolor Still Life       Thursdays   10/22/26 – 10/29/26      1-3pm

Create an interesting still life using the wet-on-wet technique which creates interesting textures and atmospheres. Emphasis will be place on arranging single objects into interesting and balanced compositions based on the Principles of Design and then enhanced by texturing and shading.

Colored Pencil Basics     Fridays    10/30/26 – 11/20/26      1-3pm

The 4 week class focuses on the various techniques used to blend colored pencil strokes (including linear stroke, overlaying colors, scumbling, impressing, glazing, burnishing, colorless blending pencils), removing, wax build-up, and various finishing methods.

Watercolor Autumn Landscape      Saturday 10/31/26      10am–3pm

Have fun learning the basics of painting autumn landscapes by applying various composition principles, transparent watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful autumn scenes.

NOVEMBER

Mixed Media Fun    Thursday   11/5/26     1-4pm

Have fun composing an interesting still life using a combination of dry and wet mediums which create interesting textures and atmospheres. The wet medium used will be watercolors and the dry colored pencils or pastels. Emphasis will be place on arranging single objects into interesting and balanced compositions based on the Principles of Design and then enhanced by texturing and shading.

Dry Media Winter Scene   Saturday 11/7/26     10am-3pm

Create colorful winter landscapes in any dry media desired – regular pencils, charcoal, pen and ink, chalk  or oil pastels, or colored pencils. Emphasis will be placed on the use of colors and textures for different types of winter conditions.

Simple Printmaking     Thursday 11/12/26     1-4pm

Have fun creating many versions of your work in different colors and on various types of paper.  Relief printmaking is a process where a drawing is incised into various plates which are then covered with thick printing ink or paint, and pressed onto a paper surface. This process allows multiples of the same work to be produced. These multiples are referred to as prints. Generally wood or linoleum plates Watercolor Winter Wonderland   Saturday   11/14/26      10am–3pm

Winter colors and skies are an inspiration for landscape painting. Learn the basics of painting winter landscapes by applying various composition principles, watercolor techniques, and types of landscape compositions to create colorful winter scenes.

Wooden Jewelry       Thursday  11/19/26     1-4pm

Wooden geometric and freeform shapes are used as the basis for pins, bracelets, necklaces, or earrings. The shapes are painted in desired colors; and when dry, textured papers cut in various shapes are glued onto the shapes. Interesting 3-D lines are painted onto different areas with puff paints. They make great Christmas presents!!!

Winter Street Scene in Mixed Media       Saturday  11/22/25     10am-3pm

Have fun composing an interesting winter street scene using a combination of dry and wet mediums which create interesting textures and atmospheres. The wet medium used will be watercolors and the dry colored pencils or pastels. Emphasis will be place on arranging single objects into interesting and balanced compositions based on the Principles of Design and then enhanced by texturing and shading.

For class information or registration contact the instructor at rnelson33@rochester.rr.com.

The Gallery provides a venue to display the art, photography and crafts of the many talented local artisans. The Gallery also provides a myriad of workshops for the beginner to the advanced artist and crafter. For more information about SCAC and Artworks Gallery visit www.artsinseneca.org.