RED HOT Chili peppers painting class!

Whether you think of beautiful red and green chili peppers as southwest cuisine or Christmas tidings, come join us for an ART and WINE class at the Twisted Vine in downtown Wake Forest on Dec 13 from 7-9 pm!

Amazing SNOW class!

A group ranging in ages from 7 to into their 50's all sat and painted their snow scenes and what a pleasure their creativity was!

Although we had one major painting to work from, each student added their own twist-a hard thing to do at first!
The results, from snow covered tobacco barns to Christmas cottages,  speak for themselves!

Oct 19 Watercolor class-an evening of fun!

We had a great time at our Watercolor class last night! The full house consisted of all ages and friends came with friends and a mom came with her son...... and frankly, no one says it better than someone who was there! Read our client's comments about our class in this link

http://allthingsquilty.blogspot.com/2011/10/watercolor-painting-class.html

Working with the 4H

I hope to shortly post or add to this post, photos from last night's 4H class where we had 29 students! The two hour START class lasted a little longer (added 30-40 minutes) from sheer numbers but this bright group of young women painted their little hearts out from 6:30-9 pm as part of a 4H sponsored event!
We were at MacNairs Country Acres  a beautiful horse facility in south Raleigh where this energetic 4H horse club is home stationed! So stay tuned for some incredible....you guessed it....HORSE PORTRAITS!

Painting by the LAKE!

The lake where our ART workshop was held

Wow what a great day we had outside Wilson, NC in a little lake house near Stantonsburg! Who would not want to paint next to this gorgeous lake?  A group of the Wilson Active Artists met here on Saturday April 23 and painted their little hearts out! The cool morning fog gave way to warm afternoon sun and by the end of the day (3:00 pm) everyone had at least 1 painting completed and one had completed 3!

Steve, during lunch, deciding maybe we can paint without him!

Lunch was ham, fried chicken, potato salad, deviled eggs, fruit....oh my!  There are Art workshops and there are ART parties and this was a party!  Our Thanks to Susan and Don for graciously providing the beautiful  location for our two START classes today and additional thanks to the Wilson Active Artists for asking us here!  A great time was had by all!

Students coming in!

Working away!

Her beautiful painting!

Painting her own horse!

First cat!

One of 3 paintings completed in one day!

Happy with her first dog painting!

Delighted with her efforts!

Beautiful horse!

A wonderful dog!

Susan graciously loaned her Lake Cottage to the group!

Delighted to paint her own dog!

What's coming up next

We have some easy features for you to know what's happening next in our classes! We have several locations where we hold our classes. Our main art studio is in Franklinton, NC and we partner with Wake Forest Art and Framing in Wake Forest, Franklin County Arts Council in Louisburg, NC, and Hills Music Shoppe in Henderson, NC. But don't worry. To the right of our blog will be our newest upcoming class and a google map for its location! 


So the next class?


Painting Horses! Wed, April 20 from 6-8 pm at the Wake Forest Art and Frame Shop in downtown Wake Forest.  This is a popular class where we paint the head and shoulders of a horse  in acrylics. We like to keep it simple but efficient by using our own system of colors and techniques.
We'll learn to add expression to the horse's eyes and use light and shadow to create a 3 dimensional horse! Sound complicated?  Don't worry! Wait until you see what you'll create in two hours!

Welcome to YOUR blog!

In reality, for all the Art Student Academy students,  this IS your blog! Without all of your amazing paintings and drawings, there would not be a blog so enjoy the images of your efforts!
Have something you painted or drawn outside of class? Then email it to me and I will post it here. We never outgrow "show and tell" so what better way nowadays than to display on the Internet?
Watch for our next classes and our art tips!