Deadline to register: March 1, 2025. Join us for a process-based class exploring abstraction through improvisational drawing. This class is perfect for both beginning and more advanced students. Class will begin with a refresher of the formal elements of art and design such as color, line, shape, texture and composition. Students will be guided through a series of group and individualized prompts focused on abstraction. Students will leave the class with a series of experiments and directions to build upon in their own creative practice. Creativity, material exploration and the art-making process will be the emphasis of this course.
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Bernie Witzack
Cost: $140
Sponsor: River Arts on Water Gallery
Website, email, 608-643-5215

Students will learn a step by step process of creating a dramatic final artwork by using an xacto knife blade to scratch away varying amounts of a black ink top layer, to expose various light to dark values beneath through their controlled scratching. They will see contemporary scratchboard art/artists’ works. They will begin a work using their chosen subject matter and work at their chosen pace to complete enough in class to have confidence to finish the work with excellence in their own space, at their own pace, beyond the workshop timeframe. They will learn how skilled they are! Included in kit fee: Knife and blade, scratchboard boards, tracing and transfer papers, rag, sandpaper.
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Rhonda Nass
Cost: $250 + $15 materials fee
Sponsor: River Arts on Water Gallery
Website, email, 608-643-5215

Fresh flowers for each student at beautiful Dillman's Resort will be provided to inspire all for this energetic and enlightening workshop, in which we will explore watercolor in a spontaneous and intuitive way. Learning how to interpret Flowers - then the Head and Figure will be featured as Janet provides pathways to learning for all levels. The studio will be available 24/7 for students. Janet will also provide photos and drawings of her demonstrations of the head - students are welcome to paint what she paints or paint from their own photos. The goal of this workshop is to discover the magic and intuition of capturing life in our paintings!!! - and having fun all the way!!!
 
Location: Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin
Instructor: Janet Rogers, AWS
Sponsor: Dillman's Bay Resort
Website, email, 715-588-3143

Sharpen your colored pencils and watercolor pencils for workshop fun in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin- post-summer rush but still during the mild September weather. Kristy Kutch, a supportive teacher, is the author of "Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil" and "The New Colored Pencil"; she is also featured in 4 instructional DVDs. Included are many aspects of this medium and its compatible surfaces. Create effects ranging from soft, transparent, and aqueous to dense and dramatic. Harbor Shores Hotel, located on Geneva Lake, offers generous student discounts. Guests enjoy immaculate rooms featuring mini-fridges and microwaves. (Lodging reservations should be made separately: 888-746-7371. Mention this workshop for discount.) Bring an extra tote bag for samples; plan for this memorable fall workshop!
 
Location: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Instructor: Kristy Ann Kutch
Cost: $300
Sponsor: Kristy Kutch Colored Pencil Workshops
Website, email, 219-874-4688