Classes

SUMMER 2025 ART CLASSES In-Person & Online: EVANSTON ART CENTER & School of the Art Institute of Chicago

For Registration visit:
Evanston Art Center

Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL
847-475-5300

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Continuing Studies
36 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
800-232-7242

Figure and Nature Drawing and Painting Online
Evanston Art Center
12 Week Class
Starts Thursday, June 12, 2025,  #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 $575/Regular Rate $595

Watercolors: Materials, Composition, and Technique In Person
Starts Tuesday, June 10, 2025, 6-week class, #0160
Starts Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 6- week class, #161
Evanston Art Center
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 $260/Regular Rate $280

Pen & Ink and Plein Air in Chicago In Person
Starts Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 5-week class, #0248
Starts Wednesday, July 16, 2025, 5-week class, #0249
Evanston Art Center
9:30 am- 12:30 pm
Venture outdoors to the Montrose Bird Sanctuary and the Caldwell Lily Pool and create Plein Air drawings and paintings.  Students will create artwork from nature and occasional buildings/architectural structures and elements. For materials you’ll experiment with micron pens, brush pens, gel pens, additional pens and sketching materials. After sketching, students are invited to continue with a pen and/or incorporate watercolor paints into their compositions.  
Skill Level: Intermediate
See supply list at EAC

Member Rate$220/Regular Rate $240

Pen & Ink & Watercolor In Person
Starts Friday, June 13, 2025, 5-week class #0163
Starts Friday, July 25, 2025, 5-week class #0164
Evanston Art Center
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

Plein Air in the City Workshop
Meets 2 Saturday mornings
Saturday, August 9 & 16, 2025, #9005
Evanston Art Center
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 $125.00/Regular Rate $145.00

 Plein Air Painting
10 Week Class
School of the Art Institute
Adult Continuing Studies
Click on blue above for REGISTRATION LINK   
Starts Sunday, June 1, 2025 #V0159
Register by noon on Friday, May 23rd, 2025
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 in, landscape–up-close, and cityscape. 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.
Price: $625