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1006 Penn Ave., La Grande, OR 97850
PO Box 541, La Grande, OR 97850
[email protected]
541-624-2800
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Your Favorite Things: Introduction to Oil Painting (Ages 11-14) FREE!
December 6 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free
Your Favorite Things: Intro to Oil Painting (Ages 11-14) FREE!
December 6 & 7 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Learn the basic skills and techniques needed to draw and paint some of your favorite things in this fun, two-part class! You don’t need any drawing or painting experience: just bring one, two, or three of your favorite small objects from home. Teaching Artist Sarah will guide you in arranging your objects, taking a photo of them, and then transferring those photos to canvases to create a realist oil painting. Sarah will teach safe procedures for oil painting, some art history, coloring mixing and color theory, and oil painting application. At the end of the second class session, you’ll take home your amazing painting of some of your favorite things! All painting supplies included. Please enter through the 5th Street door.
Teaching Artist: Sarah Bird
Cost: FREE
Location: Art Center East
Parents/guardians of youth age 17 or younger: if you haven’t already done so, CLICK HERE to fill out a Youth Release Form in order for your child to participate in ACE classes.
There are limited spots available for this class! If you reserve a ticket and later find you’re unable to attend, please email the ACE Youth Coordinator at [email protected] to cancel your reservation. This helps ACE open up spots for other interested students. Thank you!
Sarah Bird is a professional oil painter whose work is shown in Ketchum, ID, Block Island, RI, and Cape Cod, MA. She is a graduate of the four-year core program at Grand Central Atelier (GCA) in New York City and has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Her work is studio and still life-based, but it combines elements of landscape and personal history. Sarah enjoys teaching and passing on the drawing and oil painting processes she learned at GCA from her teacher, Jacob Collins. These processes are realist: they recall painting styles from the nineteenth century. The particular skills involved give students a thorough introduction to oils and are a place from which they can develop their own styles.
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Registration cancellations & transfers must be made through Art Center East at (541) 624-2800 48 hours or more before the class start time. We cannot issue refunds or transfers for cancellations received after the 48-hour cutoff. Exceptions will be considered for medical or family emergencies. ACE will honor a refund, minus a $10 administration fee when the cancellation is made 48 hours or more before class start date. When a class is canceled due to low enrollment, we will issue a refund for all registration fees. ACE will contact you in the event of a cancellation. Face coverings will be required in accordance with statewide regulations current at the time.
Wednesday-Friday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
