Classes Current classes Karen is teaching include: Anyone Can Paint and Collage! Team taught with Betsy Strebe for the Calistoga Art Center Back by popular demand, this fast-paced, fun workshop is expanded to introduce the techniques of collage. This relaxing workshop is designed to help get you started. It's simply about putting paint on a brush and getting it moving on paper or canvas. It's also about fun - as we go through warm-up painting techniques that are just as helpful as those you do at the gym. Go home with at least one piece of work worthy of your wall. If you are an experienced artist, come for the fun and maybe learn something new. We'll use acrylic paints, due to their fast drying ability - but what you learn can easily apply to any medium.   Acrylic Painting 101 Everything you wanted to know about acrylic painting, but were afraid to ask. You will learn about: paints brushes the differences between acrylics, oils, and watercolor preparing painting surfaces how to make brushstrokes painting techniques and acrylic mediums.   Acrylic Painting 102 The nuts and bolts of colors and color mixing.... You will learn about: setting up your palette values (in paint) primary, secondary, and tertiary colors the color wheel complementary colors mixing browns, grays, and blacks warm and cool colors making complementary colors work in a painting toning canvases and "mother color."   Exploring Acrylic Paints Unleash your creativity and play with paint as you explore all the different ways you can apply paint to paper or canvas. By the end of the session, you'll have at least one abstract painting to take home with you. This class is designed for both beginning painters and experienced painters who are new to acrylics or who just want to have fun with paint.   Creating Abstract Landscapes Create a series of simplified abstract landscape paintings, and have fun in the process! You'll start out learning about and experimenting with brushstrokes, and then practice two different approaches to painting as you create something wall-worthy. This class is designed for both beginners and painters who want a creative jump-start.   Landscape Painting Learn and apply a simplified approach to landscape painting, using a limited palette and water-soluble acrylic paints. You will learn: how to create a landscape painting from a photograph how to create your composition how and why to use a limited palette how to give your landscapes the illusion of distance some of the differences between studio painting and plein air painting   By the end of the class, you will have a landscape painting to take home with you. This class is designed for people with at least some previous painting experience. The class is repeatable.   Fun and Easy Collage Painting Discover new creative techniques! Learn how to combine painting, collage, relief printing, faux painting, and photo transfer techniques to create a painting without drawing. It's good way to recycle those old paintings on paper that didn't work! This class is designed for both beginning and experienced painters.   Email Karen at kli@sonic.net for locations in Santa Rosa and Calistoga, California; dates; times; cost; or oher information. Be sure to put "Art Classes" in the subject heading.