Art Classes

Color, drawing, painting botanicals and seasonal greens - even bird nests and eggs - journaling and perhaps illuminated letters. If you would like to join a class, please let me know to put you on the mailing list for the schedule. Classes will be both 1 and 2 days long. Come join us!

Banner Elk Area

We’ve found “homes” for the Summer classes in the Mountains.  A friend has offered to open her beautiful bit of Tuscany - in Banner Elk -; and another friend with a small horse farm 1/2 hr south of Banner Elk for the summer/fall workshops. 
Both are beautiful locations.

919 845-6422

Art Supplies: The nearest good art store is the outlet shop for Cheap Joe's in Boone.

Banner Elk Area Class Schedule

June 27–28, 2009; 10am - 4pm

Botanicals Register

July 11–12, 2009; 10am - 4pm

Botanicals Register

September 16–17, 2009; 10am - 4pm

Sketching horses??? Register

We’ll visit this wonderful horse farm, and see if we can get one to stand still long enough to sketch - or, if you’d prefer, we can paint birds and butterflies.

September 19–20, 2009; 10am - 4pm

Botanicals Register

Raleigh

10621 Cahill Road
Raleigh, NC

(919) 845-6422

Art Supplies: Online at Jerry's Artarama is least costly. They have a retail shop at 3060 Wake Forest Road in Raleigh.

Notes: The Raleigh classes are conducted in my studio/home and are usually indoors, seated at tables. There is a large dog but friendly Katie dog at the Raleigh Studio. We start with coffee about 9:30, a demonstration at 10, and paint/draw until lunch. After the lunch break, we paint until about 4 pm. The environment is light-filled,peaceful and welcoming. Outside the windows flows a stream, coming from the woods that surround the yard. Birds frequent the feeders at the deck. You'll be asked to bring your own lunch. I'll provide coffee, iced tea, and fruit (sometimes cookies...). Come spend a wonderful day exploring the process of creating art - it's fun, (and non-judgmental), and rewarding. Students, even those who claim they could never paint, walk away with something worth framing. (One such "I'll never be able to paint" student wrote a coffee order on the back of her painting of a butterfly. When she went to order all of the coffees, the painting was noticed and praised so thoroughly by those in the cafe that she had to reconsider her conclusion.)

Raleigh Class Schedule

August 15–16, 2009; 10am - 4pm

Botanicals Register

October 3–4, 2009; 10am - 4pm

Fall Botanicals Register

October 17–18, 2009; 10am - 4pm

Holiday greens and ??? Register

The Fork Stables, Norwood, NC

3200 Fork Road
Norwood, NC

919 306-3963

Art Supplies: We'll provide the art supplies. Bring your own journal if you wish.

The Fork Stables, Norwood, NC Class Schedule

July 17–17, 2009; 10am - 4pm

A Day at The Fork Register

Come see this beautiful piece of NC!  The 1300 acres on the Fork supports an incredible no-nail built Stable, a cross country course designed by Mark Phillips; jumping and dressage rings - and Irish Draught horses and their offspring, plus a lodge, canoeing and kayaking, and 100 miles of trails.  They are opening up an educational center “The Ordinary” building, on the property, and this class will be part of it.  We’ll wander around sketching the botanicals and animals of this beautiful, peaceful and welcoming property.  Check it out at http://www.thefork.com