Let’s make flowers! Let’s start by using watercolors and create a bouquet blending colors. Once dry, we’ll pick up our pens, markers, and gouache (or anything else we want) to create interesting playful flowers. We’ll add some splashes of gold, silver, or white! It’s a relaxing experience to just make things up. All artistic levels welcome!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin
Cost: $36 ($30 for members)
Sponsor: Art League of Ocean City
Website, email, (410) 524-9433

Under painting using one dark color – usually burnt sienna, burnt umber or a dark blue – is the thin foundational layer of paint applied to a canvas to lay out composition, tone, and value (light and shadow) before applying final colors. An underpainting eliminates the stark empty canvas and sets the tone of the subsequent painting. Painting objects or shapes with changing values, creates an immediate illusion of space, and your painting becomes an exciting, vibrant artwork — even before adding color. It all just gets better from there on! Alex will paint from a still life as she demonstrates how to compose the objects and add “life” to them with the underpainting. Paint along in either oil or acrylic.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Alex Sharma
Cost: $30
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Easy to travel with, water-based brush markers are great for quick sketches while on the road or just drawing practice. These bright & vibrant markers make landscapes exciting! We’ll take a landscape, quickly sketch it and add color in stages using water to spread it around. Simple & fun! So pull out your watercolor sketch book & markers. Great for all artistic levels!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin
Cost: $36 ($30 for members)
Sponsor: Art League of Ocean City
Website, email, (410) 524-9433

Many artists can feel frustrated in front of a blank canvas, unsure of how to start and what to paint. Paint with confidence by learning techniques to tap into your intuitive process and find inspiration more easily! Experienced instruction and advice will push students to take chances and explore unexpected directions and accidental marks to achieve artistic discoveries. Students will use line, color and space, and editing possibilities to create busy/calm areas and focal points in their paintings as they work from personal imagery, expression, and imagination. Instruction will take the form of PowerPoint presentation/examples, formal direction from modern and contemporary artists, and one-on-on critiques in Zoom sessions that are geared toward open painting time in a classroom-like setting. Painting experience recommended.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Kassem Amoudi
Cost: $175
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

We’ve all seen the beautiful sunsets in the west. So, let’s paint one! This will be wet-on-wet, blending the sky as it moves toward the inlet. We’ll add texture to the grass and use glazing to bring warmth to the foreground. So gather your paints and join in! All artistic levels welcome!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin
Cost: $36 ($30 for members)
Sponsor: Art League of Ocean City
Website, email, (410) 524-9433

Experiment with drawing over a splash of color! A dynamic layer of greens will be quickly painted & splashed on the paper. Next we’ll draw the frog in permanent ink, and finally, we’ll detail our frog with markers & watercolor. It’s an exciting way to play with color & practice drawing.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin
Cost: $36 ($30 for members)
Sponsor: Art League of Ocean City
Website, email, (410) 524-9433

The human body is one of the most fascinating and inspiring subjects for artists, but many are intimidated by its complexity. Join Roberto Osti, artist, teacher and author of Basic Human Anatomy: An Essential Visual Guide, to draw the human figure with confidence through an understanding of its basic shapes and underlying anatomy. Study the human form from a structural point of view to become familiar with its basic landmarks, essential volumes, main muscle groups, and proportional relationships. Supplement this anatomical knowledge with classical rendering methods using graphite, charcoal, and chalk on white and toned papers, including the trois crayons technique, to produce beautiful figure drawings. The online structure allows for an optimal overhead view of the instructor’s demonstration drawings.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Roberto Osti
Cost: $265
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Unlock your creative voice through the art of assemblage. Learn how to build a cohesive body of mixed-media work by exploring themes, motifs, and the power of working in a series. Through discussion, material exploration, and supportive critique, develop your visual language while experimenting with found objects and personal materials. By the end of the course, each participant will complete a meaningful 3–6 piece assemblage mini-series that expresses their unique story and artistic perspective.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Colleen O'Donnell
Cost: $265
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Explore ways to improve your use of color and enhance your personal style and expression with Al Gury, noted professor and author of Alla Prima, Color for Painters, and Foundations of Drawing. Great colorists such as Velasquez, Manet, Matisse, and Diebenkorn among others will provide the focus for weekly explorations of how to improve color in your work. Visual histories and examples, materials, problem solving, and color theories will be presented through live Zoom meetings and recorded video demonstrations, with a goal of helping each student find their own color voice. Assignments will be posted on Canvas, PAFA’s online learning platform, and critiqued by the instructor for helpful feedback. Open to all levels of experience and all media: oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Al Gury
Cost: $295
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Let’s have fun with bold watercolors. We’re going to go with the flow! These abstract flowers will be unique to you, the artist. We’ll drop deep colors on the paper and let them run down the page! Once dry, we’ll examine each one and with a permanent marker, create our flowers adding form and details to create real or imaginary flowers. We will enhance with gold if we like or splatters of paint. Fun! All artistic levels welcome.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin
Cost: $36 ($30 for members)
Sponsor: Art League of Ocean City
Website, email, (410) 524-9433

Drawing with Alcohol Markers… Fun, quick, & great for journals or planning new work. If you haven’t used them before, you are in for a treat! Join me and draw or trace small (5 x 7 or smaller) portraits of people & pets in our journal or on a smooth paper. Then we’ll discuss the unique properties of the markers, the application & blending. All artist levels are welcome!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin
Cost: $36 ($30 for members)
Sponsor: Art League of Ocean City
Website, email, (410) 524-9433

These ongoing classes series of 4 meetings each, are for you, who wish to improve your painting and sketching skills of the Landscape. Painting from your window or from images you took yourself. Will be available to participants of any level! Classes offer individual instruction and assignments. In addition, I will be open to specific requests for technique or any artistic "problem" that you may want to talk about and work out. Finding shapes, colors, and color values. Using the brush as an extension of your hand, we can work looser. The class is on Tuesdays. Duration 2 hours (it is an international group check your time zone on the site)
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Tali Farchi
Cost: $125 for 4 meetings
Sponsor: Artist Table
Website, email, 0031624903316

Storytelling versus Story Painting? Or maybe not versus? Let’s tell your story in a painting. In this class, we will learn how to tell your story, convey atmosphere, and feel, and understand colors, lines, focal-point, framing, and depth. You can add (or deduct) from the painting that will tell your story! Let us hear your tale! an ongoing class and instructions. From the prehistoric images in the caves to Edward Hopper... from the bible in pictures to the most modern painters of our times... We will set our subjects in 4 meetings. If you miss a class there will be a recording available.
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Tali Farchi
Cost: $125 for 4 meetings
Sponsor: Artist Table
Website, email, 0031624903316

An international group meets online via Zoom every Wednesday (check your time zone). Short and long poses, from 5-10 minutes and 20-30 minutes. Each week I invite a new model to pose. There is always some music in the background that I'm sharing too. 2 hours session. No instruction. At the end of the session, we show each other the work. Friendly atmosphere, everyone is welcome!
 
Location: Web-delivered (Online)
Instructor: Open session hosted by Tali Farchi
Cost: $15 per session
Sponsor: Artist Table
Website, email, 0031624903316