Happy Birthday to me! Zoom classes

Because I don’t know if we’ll ever get to do our auction to benefit OPAK – Ocean Protection Advocacy Kids, I’m holding a little fundraiser for June 17th, my 68th birthday! I never thought I’d get this old, and I

Classic Cartoon Characters – Any Medium

We usually do fine art, but every so often it’s fun for the kids to do some cartoon characters. Pastel really doesn’t lend itself to the hard lines of cartoons, so this week we can use markers, pen and ink,

Free Zoom Class Schedule

Join me for fun Zoom Art Classes! Students are welcome to join any and all of the weekly classes. Happy holiday of rebirth! I hope everyone is healthy, thriving, and staying safe.  We had a zoom brunch with the family today,

New Time! – Zoom Schedule & Reference

We learned a lot last week about having successful Zoom classes. After being shut down at 40 minutes on Thursday, I got a paid account so classes can go a decent amount of time, and are now scheduled for 3:30

Flattening the Curve

We are diligently keeping our social distance as we all should. There will be NO CLASSES at the Top for the next three weeks . I just heard Governor Baker has closed all schools for the next 3 weeks. We hope to resume the week

Exciting Art News

ART CONTEST: 2020 Marine Endangered Species Art Contest Students are welcome to create artwork for this contest both in art class and at home. Because we have to send the original artwork, students can use other mediums like pen and ink or watercolor. Entries must

12th Annual Student Show!

Our 12th Annual Student Show and Auction opening party is May 22, 5-7:00pm, and hangs through May 29 at Bramhall’s Country Store, 2 Sandwich Road, Plymouth. Any artist who has had classes with me any time over the past year is welcome

Art in Motion

Last week we did bodies in motion. People are always moving around, and it’s good to learn how to capture gesture.  We’ll do another figure class before we move on to faces. But we’re all hearts and roses this week

Weekly Update

The students did a great job with the perspective lessons. Now, on to figures and faces. Dig these awesome artworks, and scroll down for the CLASS SCHEDULE CLASS SCHEDULE If you are on the list, I expect that you are coming,

Perspective Plus!

Last week we paid attention to one-point perspective. It’s an important lesson to remember about how the horizon and vanishing point impact a composition, and keeping things like buildings, trees, windows and doors logical sizes, and parallel with the page edges.