2D Classes

Matt Jones Wednesdays, 4 - 7pm, May 26 – July 21 Meets in Downtown Grand Junction $150 member / $190 non-member

Come early and grab a cup of coffee, a glass of wine, or a pint of beer before class and join us downtown to embrace the art of drawing and painting through sketchbooking. This course focuses on the art of sketching and journaling as a way of recording your experiences. Each class will be held downtown and meet outside of Kiln Coffee. Students will be provided, via email, with a prompt, quote, and insightful advice for advancing their drawing skills while enhancing their ability of seeing the beauty of things in their environment that may otherwise go unnoticed. Students will meet up after each drawing session for the last 30 minutes of class to share their experiences and sketches with one another.

Communicating the Poetry of Landscape

Loren Eakins Tuesdays 4- 8pm, May 25 – July 20 $150 member / $190 non-member

The landscape is complex and ever-changing, from blindingly bright to the deepest of darks. It is constantly in motion; some features last for eons, while others for seconds. And yet our eye makes sense of it, interpreting the path of rivers, the circles of hawks or the first of the monsoon storms pouring over the horizon. Our eyes do this in specific ways, and these ways are fundamental to the visual language. This will be a fairly open plein air class, with minimal instruction. While all mediums are welcome, many of the demonstrations will be done in watercolor or oil. Locations for each class will be sent via email from the Instructor of this course.