Explore Drawing: Techniques & Creativity

Unlock your creativity in this engaging drawing class! Whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills, you'll explore fundamental techniques such as shading, perspective, and composition. Using a variety of materials, you'll develop confidence in your artistic expression while working on guided exercises and personal projects. Join us for a fun and relaxed environment where you can learn, experiment, and bring your ideas to life!  This session is for teens and adults of all skill levels.

Learn techniques and various approaches to create colorful images in transparent watercolor. Bring what you work with to the first class.  Linda will reach out to you before the session with a supply list.

Teens and adults of all skill levels, from beginners to intermediate and beyond, are welcome to enjoy this class. Instructor, Linda Vorderer, MAT, is a certified art teacher for ages K-12 to adult.

Adventure into the fun world of canvas painting! Taught by Oak Lawn resident artist and musician Alan Bishop, this engaging acrylic painting class will explore artistic composition, color theory, and brush techniques in a supportive, creative environment.

Students will have the opportunity to create at least one polished painting of their own design, learning how to make their trees happy and their horizons pop along the way. Whether you're a beginner or building on existing skills, this class is the perfect place to express yourself through art.

This six-week class meets on the following Thursdays: September 4th, September 11th, September 18th, September 25th, October 2nd, and October 9th.

Learn techniques and various approaches to create colorful images in transparent watercolor. Bring what you work with to the first class.  Linda will reach out to you before the session with a supply list.

Teens and adults of all skill levels, from beginners to intermediate and beyond, are welcome to enjoy this class. Instructor, Linda Vorderer, MAT, is a certified art teacher for ages K-12 to adult.

Make an adorable little pumpkin from a recylcled grocery bag. Have a blast crunching up the paper and shaping it with wire.  We'll look at photos of real pumpkins as we create the vine, leaves, stalk and color.  

Upcycle a paper grocery bag into a sweet little pumpkin on the vine.  Skills include distressing paper, cutting to a pattern, shaping a sculpture, watercolor painting, wire work, nature observation and even a little geometry.  

Your instructor is Oak Lawn botonical artist Kate Donley.  The class meets on October 4th and is for tweens to teens from 2-4 pm.  Registration closes on October 3rd.