Classes

Spring 2024 ART CLASSES In-Person & Online: EVANSTON ART CENTER
& Summer 2024 Art Class In person at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL
For Registration visit: http://www.evanstonartcenter.org
or call 847-475-5300

Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting Online
10 Week Class
Starts Monday, March 25th, 2024,  #V0159
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Practice drawing techniques via lectures, warm-up drawings, and longer finished poses. Techniques may include: gesture and organizational line, contour line, shape-plane-volume-modeling, value, foreshortening, and anatomical studies. We will work from a clothed model, and have critiques, to provide a supportive class response. Choose to work in drawing and/or painting mediums.

Skill Level: All Levels

Member Rate $465.00/Regular Rate $485.00

Watercolors: Materials, Composition, and Technique In Person
Starts Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 5-week class, #0160
Starts Tuesday, April 30th, 2024, 5-week class,  #0161
9:30 am- 12:30 pm

Create both vibrant and subdued paintings with strong compositions using watercolor tubes, and watercolor pencils. Instruction includes demos on watercolor techniques- applying watercolor washes, painting wet in wet, and painting without a sketch. Learn about staining and lightfast colors. The instructor will provide a variety of still-lifes, and these will also be available online. We will have individual and group critiques to receive supportive responses from classmates.

Skill Level: All Levels

Member Rate $220.00/Regular Rate $240.00 



Pen & Ink & Watercolor In Person
Starts Friday, March 29th, 2024, 5-Week Class, #0163
Starts Friday, May 3rd, 2024, 5-Week Class, #0164
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Using still life and reference material students will create drawings and paintings using a variety of pens–dip pens, micron pens, brush pens; watercolors, Dr. Martin watercolors, inks, and brushes on various papers.

Skill Level: All Levels

Member Rate $220.00/Regular Rate $240.00

Pen & Ink & Watercolor Workshop In Person
Meets on 2 Saturday mornings
Saturday, April 6th & 13th, 2024, #9026
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Create studies and one finished piece using dip pens, micron pens, brush pens, and Dr. Martin watercolors. The instructor will provide a still life, or you can bring in still life material. See posted list for materials.

Skill Level: All Levels

Member Rate $200.00/Regular Rate $220.00

Poetry & Art Workshop In Person
Meets on 3 Saturday mornings
Saturday, May 4th & 11th, 2024, #9019
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

We‘ll combine poetry and art while exploring different poetry forms. In the first session, we’ll look at haiga which combines art and haiku, cherita that are a more narrative slightly longer form of haikus, and ekphrastic poetry which are poems inspired by works of art. The second session will include some of the following poetry forms: acrostic, limerick, shape, list, golden shovel, nonet, and Zeno. 

Skill Level: All Levels

Member Rate $200.00/Regular Rate $220.00

Plein Air Painting In Person & On Location
10 Week Session
Starts Sunday, June 2, 2024, # 1068
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Learn to observe color and capture changing light along the city's lakefront and in its parks. Intended for those with no outdoor painting experience, this course will cover the basics of equipment, materials, subject selection, and techniques for painting outdoors in acrylics, oils, or watercolor. Observe and apply color to render forms in natural light settings working with a variety of subjects–landscape, cityscape, figure in landscape, portraiture, and still life. Students will be required to provide their own supplies, including a collapsible easel, which will be discussed in the first class meeting. Basic drawing experience is helpful.

Registration deadline: May 28 at noon
Price $625