Your Favorite Things: Introduction to Oil Painting (Ages 11-14) FREE

Your Favorite Things: Intro. to Oil Painting (Ages 11-14) FREE

April 26 & 27 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 in 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 you 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

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.

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 youth classes.

There are limited spots available for this class! If you reserve a ticket and later find you’re unable to attend, please email ACE Youth Coordinator at [email protected] to cancel your reservation. This helps ACE open up spots for other interested students. Thank you!

Free youth classes are made possible by the Art Center East Youth Arts Learning Fund. The Fund is supported by the Avista Foundation, Autzen Foundation, Blue Mountain Bottled Water, Eastern Oregon University, Grande Ronde Med Spa, Gray Family Foundation, Haley Hines at Blue Summit Realty, JTMF Foundation, Koza Family Dental, La Grande School District, Miller Foundation, Nate Conklin at State Farm, Optimist International of La Grande, Soroptimist International of La Grande, Tanner Willson at Edward Jones, Walmart Foundation, and community member donations.