Mini  Workshops

In addition to the ongoing classes and typical weekend workshops, the Mainstreet staff instructors also offer  a variety of short mini-workshops on specialty subjects. Upcoming offerings are listed below:

Barb Benstein

Portrait Steps - Portrait Painting

Portraiture Basics - Start Here!
It all starts with good drawing skills. First time students will begin in charcoal and pencil. There will be demos, lecturing, and practice exercises to give you a better understanding of how to draw the head. You’ll learn to build the structure of a variety of heads and capture different angles, head shapes, and different aged subjects. You will learn to build the structure of the head, block in with masses, mix flesh tones and develop the features in the face through a series of demos and practice exercises. More advanced students will continue on their portrait journey with various portrait studies.

Cheryl Cook

Figure Drawing: Drawing
Skills Bring New Life
to Your Painting

CHARCOAL

Saturday & Sunday
October 5 & 6, 2024 or March 1 & 2, 2025
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

$230.00 plus model fee

Learning how to see and interpret reality through line drawing helps you develop the ability to think and see like an artist. Cookie will lead you through a series of exercises, designed to train the artist to draw figures with accuracy, simplicity and skill. This class will strengthen your figure drawing skills for both beginner and experienced artists. Sessions will begin with short exercises to capture gesture, movement, and anatomy.

Susan Ploughe

Art and Your iPad

DIGITAL

Thursday & Friday
October 31 & November 1, 2024
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

$100.00

Susan Ploughe

Getting Started with Gouache

GOUACHE

Friday
February 28, 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
$115

Gouache (which rhymes with “squash”) is a delightful medium that provides endless possibilities for expression. It allows you to paint as you would with oils or acrylics because of its opaque qualities, while also providing watercolor-like characteristics. Its rich, matte color can be used in a range of applications from thin and semi-transparent to many opaque layers. It is a water-based paint, making it easy to use and clean-up - no solvents! It’s fantastic for sketching, traveling, and working out ideas, and can be used for quick studies or as a finished painting. In this workshop you will learn about the necessary supplies, how to handle the paint and palette, what surfaces to paint on, and you will practice a variety of painting techniques to get you started on your gouache journey.

Susan Ploughe

Background Check

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

$115.00