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

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

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

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

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