Christmas is Coming!

Always visit here for the weekly updates. With that late Thanksgiving and a snow day last Tuesday, we’re in a big rush to get ready for the holidays. This week we’ll be doing more card designs, and next week Upside-down

‘Tis the Season

I had a wonderful week off.  Now here come the holidays, and it’s already time to start making greeting cards!  Over the next few weeks, artists can make artworks as designs for greeting cards. I print them out, and each

Yummy & Spooky

The artists did a really good job with the annual candy challenge. This is a great lesson to teach how to put things where they belong on a complex composition, and candy corn offers its own unique learning opportunities! Enjoy these

No bones about it!

Last week Bones Jones came up from the cellar to teach his annual anatomy and proportion lesson. This is a great way to have fun and learn a lot about human structure.  When anyone questions repeating a lesson year after year, I

October Update

Three artists from the Top, Scotty Hokanson, Charlotte Holl, and Quinn Mace, entered work in the Plymouth Center for the Arts YOUNG AT ART show. Congratulations to all of you for showing your awesome work, and special thanks to Terry

Committed to Art

Path of Least Resistance In addition to being committed to never stopping growing as an artist, and making art on a regular basis, I am also committed to teaching art Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and scheduled private lessons in any given week. I spend

October!

Hedge Pond October Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that I’d be teaching fine art for twenty years now.  One of my first jobs back in 1968 when I was a sixteen-year-old oil painter was assisting Gay Youse

Art Schedule

After school classes are shaping up. Wednesday is now a twelve and up class that starts 15 minutes earlier at 3:45.  Enjoy these wonderful watermelon paintings, and scroll down for the weekly schedules. CLASS SCHEDULE Minimum is 4 students, max is

Back at it

Still clinging to summer here, trying to get out and row and sail as much as possible. Off Howland’s Landing Getting ready to start up the regular after school classes this week. Please check the list below, and make any

After school classes

I hope everyone is getting settled into school nicely. Classes will begin when I have four kids or more signed up for a class. Scroll down to see the state of the schedule today.  Meanwhile I am enjoying the bounty of