Friday Pottery Wheel Date Night Workshop

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up. Price is per person.

Learn about the basics of fusing glass in this two hour workshop. Glass fusing can be used to make jewelry, dishware, art glass, and so much more! In this course, we will create various suncatcher pendant designs. All supplies included.

Saturday Pottery Wheel Date Night Workshop

Learn a new skill together with your partner, friend, or family member! We will walk you through the wheel throwing process together. No clay experience necessary but dress for a mess! Clay, glazes, and firing fees are included. Ages 18 & up. Price is per person.

Try the pottery wheel together in this fun, hands-on workshop for families! Learn basic throwing techniques and create a piece of your own. No experience needed—just a willingness to get a little messy. Ages 10+ welcome. All materials included.

Join us for our watercolor & acrylic nature painting workshops! Enjoy some time outside and be inspired by the nature around you. This workshop is open to adults ages 18+ — bring a friend, special someone, or just yourself!

This workshops is free to Fayetteville City Residents thanks to the sponsorship by City of Fayetteville, Parks and Rec & Arts and Culture Departments

FRIDAY DATES:

5:30 PM — Students will meet at CCC for a brief introduction. Instructor will lead students to the Upper or Lower Ramble to paint with gouache, watercolors, or acrylic on paper or stretched canvas.

7 :30 PM — Students will return to CCC to discuss the experience.

Beginning Acrylic Painting

The main goal is to enhance familiarity and comfort with the acrylic medium by exploring its fundamental techniques and concepts (and to have fun!). This will be achieved through the completion of three distinct projects, each designed to build skills incrementally. The projects will focus on various aspects of acrylic painting, such as color mixing, layering techniques, and texture creation, allowing for a comprehensive investigation of the medium. By the end of these projects, participants will have a deeper understanding of acrylics and increased confidence in their ability to utilize this versatile medium effectively.This session is divided into three projects with two classes to work on each project. Each project will focus on several or a combination of these fundamentals:

• Line-Your starting point. Thick, thin, expressive, controlled
• Shape-Giving weight and dimension to objects
• Space-Perspective, depth
• Color-Color wheel! Color relationships!
• Texture-Fun with additives and using the right brush/tool for the desired effect
• Value-Lightness/darkness of color, not what the painting is worth at a Sotheby’s auction

Using principles learned from the Fundamentals, Figure and Head classes, we’ll apply ourknowledge and skills to Old Master figure works. How did they add life and energy to theirfigures? How did their understanding of simple forms convey emotion? Construction drawing willbe a main part of understanding. We’ll look at the various parts of the figure each week andexamples will be given to draw from.

Suggested Reading

1. Figure Drawing For Artists 
2. Drawing Manual 
3. Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters & Master Class In Figure Drawing
4. Drawing from Life by George Bridgman

A six-week studio course focusing on projects dealing with the materials and techniques of drawing, including basic concepts of line, perspective and value as well as figure drawing.

Suggested Reading:

1. A Contemporary Approach
2. Keys to Drawing
3. Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth
4. Figure Drawing and Invention