Susan Curington
Views of the Natural World

Classes Registration

PAST CLASSES

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Paint your own ~ SEA STAR

Saturday, October 12th, 2019 10-5:30

Explore a new color palette and play with masking techniques.

Learn more about the dance of complimentary colors, color temperature bending, detailing and soft backgrounds.
Enjoy a relaxing and fun day together and take a finished 10" x 20"acrylic painting home.
No previous experience necessary.  All Art materials provided.

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Juicy Apples

Saturday, August 3, 2019 10-5:30

Come paint a pair of Hood River’s own apples

Learn more about the dance of complimentary colors, color temperature bending,

detailing and soft backgrounds.

Enjoy a relaxing and fun day together and take a finished acrylic painting home.

bia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR 97031

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   Bumlebee & Nasturtium

Come paint a Bumblebee feeding in a bright Nasturtium

Learn more about the dance of complimentary colors, and painting bee’s wings.  

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Paint your own ~

Beach Grass

Saturday, June 15th 10-4:30

Play with masking techniques, great for grasses and a lot of other subjects too.

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Swallowtail Butterfly

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Chickadee 

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Winter Cardinal ~ paint your own 

Come paint a bright red cardinal in evergreen branches. They are said to symbolize hope, joy, health, rejuvenation and celebration. Perfect antidote for cold and gray December. 

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Waterlily Dawn 


Fall in love with the tranquility and beauty of a misty lake with warm sparkles on the lilypads at dawn.  Learn to create soft color and value changes. Explore masking technique and mixing the colors of water.

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Farm Field Vista 

Enjoy learning to create the feeling of a far vista amosphere with perspective and graded values. Explore using shadows, warm and cool colors to create the rows of vegetation we so love here in Oregon.

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FOREST PEACE

Walking on the path through misty old growth forest of Cape Lookout on the Oregon Coast....ahhhhh, peace.

Learn about values ~ lights & darks, and use color glazes to warm the light and cool the shadows, plus explore "fogging" for a misty effect.

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Juicy Tomato