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This class is for those who have little knowledge about drawing but would like to learn. A $20.00 materials fee will be collected at the first class for all the material you will need; sketchbook, paper, pencils, stumps and sandpaper. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       084500  9/13 - 12/6 No Class 11/22  Thursday  6:30pmm-9:30pm  Colfax H.S. Room 576  Coverston  20.00  -  20.00  Add to Cart    804500  9/13 - 12/6 No Class 11/22  Thursday  6:30pmm-9:30pm  Colfax H.S. Room 576  Coverston  65.00  -  65.00  Add to Cart      top     Drawing in Pen and Ink Tell a Friend!          Learn the basic techniques for working with pen and ink, both on paper and on scratchboard. Students will use pen and ink on paper to explore how lines, dots and crosshatching create tone and texture. Those techniques will then be applied on scratchboard to expand the possibilities. Contrast and tone, composition and use of negative space will be discussed in class. Drawing skills are helpful but not necessary. A $5.00 materials fee for paper and scratchboard will be collected at the first class. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to first class.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       312800  9/18 - 10/9  Tuesday  6:00pm-8:30pm  360 Finley St., Auburn  Ranlett  68.00  -  68.00  Add to Cart      top     Ink on Scratchboard Workshop Tell a Friend!          Learn the basic techniques for working with ink on scratchboard, a unique and surprisingly forgiving process. Students will learn how to apply ink to the scratchboard and how to use a knife to scratch the inked surface to create tone and texture. Contrast and tone, composition and use of negative space will be discussed in class. Drawing skills are helpful but not necessary. Scratchboard provided. A $5.00 materials fee will be collected at the class. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to the class.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       301100  10/20  Saturday  9:00am-2:00pm  360 Finley Street, Auburn  Ranlett  46.00  -  46.00  Add to Cart      top     Watercolor Made Easy for Beginners Tell a Friend!          Follow step-by-step watercolor demonstrations on techniques you need to produce successful paintings. You'll learn tips that will enable you to fix mistakes, avoid muddy colors, and control the paint. You'll explore simple drawing methods that work well for watercolor and learn all about inexpensive supplies and color mixing. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to first class. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       084100  9/13 - 12/13 No Class 10/18 & 11/22  Thursday  9:00am-12:00pm  Placer H.S. Room 630  Roth  20.00  -  20.00  FULL - Please Call!    804100  9/13 - 12/13 No Class 10/18 & 11/22  Thursday  9:00am-12:00pm  Placer H.S. Room 630  Roth  65.00  -  65.00  FULL - Please Call!      top     Intermediate/Advanced Watercolor Tell a Friend!          Watercolor - background to foreground and tips - to create successful watercolors. Demonstration and critique in each class. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to first class. Students must have had an introduction to watercolor previously. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       086100  9/11 - 12/11 No Class 10/9, 10/16, 10/23 & 11/20  Tuesday  6:00pm-9:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Hamilton  20.00  -  20.00  FULL - Please Call!    806100  9/11 - 12/11 No Class 10/9, 10/16, 10/23 & 11/20  Tuesday  6:00pm-9:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Hamilton  65.00  -  65.00  FULL - Please Call!    806101  9/13 - 12/13 No Class 10/11, 10/18, 10/25 & 11/22  Thursday  9:00am-12:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Hamilton  65.00  -  65.00  Please Call!    086101  9/13 - 12/13 No Class 10/11, 10/18, 10/25 & 11/22  Thursday  9:00am-12:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Hamilton  20.00  -  20.00  Add to Cart      top     Advanced Watercolor Tell a Friend!          Come join us on Thursday afternoons and experience the joy of watercolor painting. Prerequisite: Watercolor Made Easy for Beginners. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       084225  9/13 - 12/13 No Class 10/18 & 11/22  Thursday  1:00pm-4:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Roth  20.00  -  20.00  FULL - Please Call!    804225  9/13 - 12/13 No Class 10/18 & 11/22  Thursday  1:00pm-4:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Roth  65.00  -  65.00  Please Call!      top     Beginning Art & Design Tell a Friend!          Build a strong foundation for the study of any art discipline by learning the basis of all art study, the elements of art (color, shape, line, space, texture, form, and value). Students will create hands-on projects to develop both technique and appreciation. Returning students are welcome, and will apply elements of art to new projects. Intermediate Art & Design will be offered during this time slot in Spring 2008. Please pick up supply list at the Placer Adult School Office prior to the first class. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20.00 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       088000  9/10 - 12/10 No Class 11/12 & 11/19  Monday  8:30am-11:30am  DeWitt Center Room 324B  Pietz  20.00  -  20.00  CANCELLED    808000  9/10 - 12/10 No Class 11/12 & 11/19  Monday  8:30am-11:30am  DeWitt Center Room 324B  Pietz  65.00  -  65.00  CANCELLED      top     Introduction to Traditional Drawing & Painting Tell a Friend!          Drawing is foundational to successful painting or any art pursuit. Students will learn drawing the way the old Masters learned going back to the Renaissance working primarily from busts and statues in a very structured progression. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to first class. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       084600  9/12 - 12/5 No Class 11/21  Wednesday  8:30am-11:30am  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Pietz  20.00  -  20.00  Please Call!    804600  9/12 - 12/5 No Class 11/21  Wednesday  8:30am-11:30am  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Pietz  65.00  -  65.00  Please Call!      top     Hands-on Art History-Africa, Asia & Oceania Tell a Friend!          New and returning students are welcome in this continuation of the Hands-on Art History series. Students will be learning about the art of Africa, Asia, India and Oceania through slides, prints, books, lecture and video. In addition, students will create art related to each week's lesson. Projects include Aboriginal dream paintings, mud cloth prints, Moorish mosaics and scroll landscapes. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to first class. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       088200  9/12 - 12/5 No Class 11/21  Wednesday  11:30am-2:30pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Pietz  20.00  -  20.00  Add to Cart    808200  9/12 - 12/5 No Class 11/21  Wednesday  11:30am-2:30pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Pietz  65.00  -  65.00  Add to Cart      top     Perspective Made Easy Tell a Friend!          Unlock the mysteries of perspective drawing. Students will learn to use one, two and three point perspective. Cast shadows in perspective, foreshortening and circles in perspective using weekly exercises. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to first class. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $10.00 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       808600  9/10 - 10/15  Monday  1:00pm-4:00pm  360 Finley Street, Auburn  Pietz  52.00  -  52.00  Please Call!    088600  9/10 - 10/15  Monday  1:00pm-4:00pm  360 Finley Street, Auburn  Pietz  10.00  -  10.00  FULL - Please Call!      top     Oil Painting Tell a Friend!          This class will focus on painting in oil or acrylic medium. The day class will emphasize personal expression through painting. The night class will work from photos or still life. Class will include many subjects: shadow techniques, color theory, color mixing, perspective, depth of field, and creating beautiful harmony in your artwork. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults office prior to first class. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       804300  9/11 - 12/4 No Class 11/20  Tuesday  8:30am-11:30am  DeWitt Center Room 324B  England  65.00  -  65.00  Add to Cart    084300  9/11 - 12/4 No Class 11/20  Tuesday  8:30am-11:30am  DeWitt Center Room 324B  England  20.00  -  20.00  Add to Cart    804301  9/19 - 12/12 No Class 11/21  Wednesday  6:00pm-9:00pm  DeWitt Center Room 324B  Silvestri  65.00  -  65.00  Add to Cart    084301  9/19 - 12/12 No Class 11/21  Wednesday  6:00pm-9:00pm  DeWitt Center Room 324B  Silvestri  20.00  -  20.00  Add to Cart      top     Intermediate Oil Painting Tell a Friend!          A follow-up class to Oil Painting. Students can do instructor-driven projects or select their own subjects and media. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults office prior to first class. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       804724  9/11 - 12/4 No Class 11/20  Tuesday  12:00pm-3:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  England  65.00  -  65.00  Please Call!    084724  9/11 - 12/4 No Class 11/20  Tuesday  12:00pm-3:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  England  20.00  -  20.00  Please Call!      top     Figure Drawing and Painting Tell a Friend!          This class will focus on drawing and painting the human anatomy, covering the basics of composition, shape, shadow, structure, realism, bone and muscle structure using graphite, pen & ink, charcoal, and oil. Live model. A $60.00 cash fee will be collected at the first class session to cover modeling costs. 55 years or older, please use the 08 code for the $20 pricing.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       806500  9/10 - 12/3 No Class 9/17, 11/12 & 11/19  Monday  12:00pm-3:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Silvestri  65.00  -  65.00  Add to Cart    086500  9/10 - 12/3 No Class 9/17, 11/12 & 11/19  Monday  12:00pm-3:00pm  Dewitt Center Room 324B  Silvestri  20.00  -  20.00  Add to Cart      top     Copperplate Calligraphy Tell a Friend!          Explore the beautiful and elegant writing found on invitations, announcements, and gifts. Regardless of your handwriting, you will develop a flowing, rhythmic style that will surprise you and your friends! Beginners will learn eight basic strokes to form all the letters of the alphabet. This method enables the students to quickly gain satisfaction with their writing. Students with Copperplate experience will work on more advanced techniques such as flourishing. "Lefties" are very welcome. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to class. Class max: 15.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       312900  9/14 - 10/19 No Class 9/21  Friday  10:00am-12:00pm  360 Finley Street, Auburn  Peterson  68.00  -  68.00  Add to Cart      top     Easy to Paint Poinsettias Tell a Friend!          Get a head start on holiday cards and decorations with this quick workshop. Students will use white watercolor to paint elegant poinsettias on holiday colored papers. The technique can be applied to gifts, tags, cards, wrapping paper, or holiday party tables. Come learn to create beautiful flowers with a minimum of materials. Please pick up supply list at Placer School for Adults prior to first class. Class max:15.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       313000  11/3  Saturday  9:00am-12:00pm  360 Finley Street, Auburn  Peterson  31.00  -  31.00  Add to Cart      top     Ceramics Class (Wheel) Tell a Friend!          Learn the technique for throwing a series of 3-dimensional ceramic forms on the potter¿s wheel. The thrown forms will be rendered functional and decorative through glazing and firing. Class will include project preparation, throwing techniques, trimming, textural enrichment, glazing and firing. The aesthetic of form, design and function will be an ongoing subject discussed and demonstrated on a weekly basis. A $40.00 material fee will be collected at the first class.      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       615000  9/10 - 10/11  Monday  7:00pm-9:30pm  ARTS 808 Lincoln Way, Auburn  Ortiz  80.00  -  80.00  CANCELLED    615001  10/8 - 10/29  Monday  7:00pm-9:30pm  ARTS 808 Lincoln Way, Auburn  Ortiz  80.00  -  80.00  FULL - Please Call!      top     Card Talk: Hand-crafted Greeting Cards Tell a Friend!          This seven-week class will give you the opportunity to make lots of cards! You'll work with pressed flowers, shadow stamps, pigment inks, embossing powders, light boxes, oriental designs, wallpaper-shirt cards, layered medallion stamps, faux stitching on fabric cards, tag art, literary quotes, and and an introduction to paper quilling. A $20.00 fee for material will be collected at the first class meeting. Class max: 10      Section Dates Days Times Location Instructor Fee  Aux  Total       301000  9/13 - 10/25  Thursday  7:00pm - 9:00pm  360 Finley St. Auburn  Krueger  61.00  -  61.00  Add to Cart
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