Plein Air Painting with Victoria Brzustowicz and Colette Savage

Next Session: 8/18/26 -9/15/26 

*New Day* Tuesdays 6:00-8:00

$139 5 weeks

Teacher: Blaithe Donovan, NY certified Art Teacher

Date: Saturday August 22nd 1:00-4:00

Cost: $50 Limit 10

Ages 12+

Block Printing Workshop:

In this workshop you will learn the basics of printmaking with a certified Art teacher. We will be carving stamps to print onto fabric. Create customized totes, towels, shirts and more! White Totes and t-shirts will be provided, if you wish to customize a personal item bring it with you! We can make your creative vision come to life.

Materials List (available at The Art Stop)

• Speedball Speedycarve 4 x 6
• Lino cutters
• Ebony pencils/pencils

Things we will provide

• Speedball Fabric Block Printing Ink
• Brayers
• Tracing Paper
• Carboard
• Paper towels
• White totes  t-shirts (you can bring additional items to print)

Instructor: Yui Kinney

5-Week Teacher Guide

Class Length: 2 hours per week

Cost $139

Course Duration: 5 weeks- Sept 3rd-Oct 1st

Ages 10+

Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Featured Birds: Eastern Bluebird, Goldfinch, and Cardinal

Bonus Botanicals: Daisies, Lavender, and Loose Green Leaves

Class Description:

In this five-week watercolor course, students learn how to paint beautiful local birds through transparent layering, color mixing, and detail techniques. Each lesson introduces a different bird and a new set of watercolor skills, including soft feathers, expressive eyes, natural color transitions, branches, flowers, and simple backgrounds.

The course also includes beginner-friendly botanical lessons featuring daisies, lavender, and loose green leaves. These natural elements help students create balanced and complete bird compositions without making the paintings overly complicated.

Throughout the course, students will practice wet-on-wet painting, wet-on-dry techniques, brush control, color values, layering, lifting, soft edges, and simple background washes. The class is taught through clear teacher demonstrations, guided practice, and individual painting time. Printed bird outlines may be provided for beginners

The main goal of the course is not perfect realism. Students are encouraged to observe the bird’s character, enjoy the watercolor process, and develop their own personal painting style.

Course Learning Objectives

By the end of the five-week course, students will be able to:

• • Understand basic watercolor materials and brush control• Mix clean, natural colors for birds and botanicals
• • Paint light, medium, and dark watercolor values
• • Use wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques
• • Build bird colors using transparent layers
• • Paint simple feather textures without outlining every feather
• • Create expressive bird eyes and natural beaks
• • Paint branches, stems, daisies, lavender, and loose leaves
• • Add a soft background without distracting from the bird
• • Plan a balanced bird-and-flower composition
• • Complete a finished watercolor bird painting

Five-Week Course Overview

Week 1: Watercolor Basics and Botanical Practice Students learn water control, brush techniques, color values, simple background washes, daisies, lavender, and loose green leaves.

Week 2: Eastern Bluebird with Daisies -Students paint an Eastern Bluebird using blue and warm orange washes, then add daisies, green leaves, and a soft spring background.

Week 3: Goldfinch with Lavender-Students paint a bright yellow Goldfinch with dark wing markings, lavender stems, loose foliage, and a soft meadow background.

Week 4: Cardinal with Loose Green Leaves-Students build rich red layers, paint the Cardinal’s crest and dark face mask, and add green leaf clusters and a simple background.

Week 5: Final Bird and Wildflower Painting-Students choose one bird and create a complete composition using flowers, leaves, a branch, and a soft background.

Materials List:

Materials

• Watercolor paper, 140 lb. cold press 100% cotton 9” x 12”
• Watercolor paint set
• Round brushes: sizes 2, 4, 6, ( or 2 ,3, 5)
• Scrub brush or old brush
• Small detail brush: size 0 or 1
• Pencil and eraser
• Waterproof black fine-liner (optional)
• Two water containers
• Paper towels
• Mixing palette
• Masking tape
• White gel pen or white gouache (optional)
• Printed bird reference photographs ( provided )
• Printed bird line drawings ( provided)
• Suggested Paint Colors
• Lemon Yellow
• Yellow Ochre
• Burnt Sienna
• Burnt Umber
• Raw Umber
• Ultramarine Blue
• Cerulean Blue
• Sap Green
• Olive Green
• Permanent Red
• Alizarin Crimson
• Payne’s Gray
• Buff Titanium
• Teal
• Magenta

Students do not need every color. Similar colors may be substituted.

Instructor Victoria Brzustowicz
6 week Class $179
Mondays 11:00-1:00
Next Session: 9/14/26 -10/19/26

Course Description:

In this class we’ll explore materials, fundamentals, and best practices of oil painting, with an emphasis on direct or “alla prima” techniques. Color mixing and creating a range of colors from a limited palette will be taught. For students with previous experience in color mixing, a more complex palette will be used. Paint from your own sketches, photos, or studio still life. We’ll have demos in each class that will cover various topics such as various ways to start an oil painting, oiling out, stretching a canvas, preparing a panel, glazing, and varnishing.

• Supply List:
• If you already have  oil paints, please bring them to class and we will work with your selection. If you don’t have supplies, here is the  minimum to get started!
• Paints
  Napthol Red (or equivalent) -
  Ultramarine Blue -
  Hansa Yellow Light (or equivalent)
  Titanium White
• Surfaces
  Canvas panel or gessoed panels in a variety of sizes, preferably 11 x 14 and smaller. Since we will be working alla prima, aim for smaller sizes if possible 8x 10 is wonderful.
• Brushes: a least one of each, not  too small (4-6). We will discuss the individual marks that each type of brush makes, and you can add to your collection as you go.
  Filbert
  Flat
  Round
• Palette Knife
• Gray Matters Disposable Palette Pad 12 x 16
• Masterson Sealed Palette
• Gamsol

Instructor: Victoria Brzustowicz

Weds: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Teen to Adult

Cost: $129 for 7 Weeks

Weds 11:00-12:30 9/16/26 - 10/28/26

Can’t draw but want to? Can draw but want to get better? In this class you will use pencil, charcoal, and pastel to learn basic forms, one and two point perspective, negative space, tonal value and proportion. Use these fundamentals to draw anything. Drawing accurately is the basis for all other fine art mediums. You need to be able to accurately sketch out your canvas or paper before going on the next step.

• Materials List:
• Drawing pad w/perforated top 9 x 12 or 11 X 14
• hake brush
• 4 graphite drawing pencils, hard, med & soft
• metal sharpener
• pink pearl eraser
• kneaded eraser
• blending tortillions
• Vine Charcoal
• Kit portfolio bag at cost with purchase of kit
• Kits are available for purchase

Saturdays: 11:00-11:45 

Next Session: 9/19/26 - 11/7/26 

8 Weeks $125

Young artists will enjoy this lighthearted class. A huge variety of projects makes this class fun over and over again. Basic art concepts are introduced at an age-appropriate level, preparing the student for creative art class, when they are ready. A smock or apron is recommended for this class. Class limit 10

Supply List:

• Drawing pad w/perforated top 9 x 12 or 11 x 14
• 1 set Cray-Pas any size, or 6 or 12 set of Playcolor (dry tempera sticks)
•  2B pencil, eraser
• All other supplies will be supplied by The Art Stop

Youth Multi-Media Age 9+

Next Session:

Next Session: 9/19/26 - 11/7/26 

8 weeks all supplies included Cost: $179

In this class, children will explore new ways to mesh mediums to produce multimedia pieces. Acrylic, watercolor and printmaking will be combined with expressive mark making, drawing and collaging to produce one of a kind experience and process driven artwork.

Tues 1:00-3:00 9/22/26 - 10/20/26 FULL
--5 weeks $139

Anne Jurgens, award winning artist and certified instructor, will lead you through the wonders of watercolor. This class is intended for beginning and intermediate students with emphasis on expressing ourselves with paint. Beginning students will learn basic watercolor techniques including how to apply flat washes, graded washes, and glazes, wet in wet and dry brushing techniques. We will learn about composition, values, line, and color as elements in a painting. For intermediate students who wish to choose their own subjects, instruction will be individualized.- You can read the artist's bio and see more of her work in the Gallery section.

• Paper: Arches 11x14 100% rag, 140 Cold Press. and/ or Strathmore Series 500 mixed media
• Brushes: Sable is best. Synthetic is okay Rounds #1, #5, #8 Flats: 1/2 inch, 1 inch, 2 inch, Rigger
• Water Container - One for clear, one to clean brushes can be as simple as a couple of
  cottage cheese containers.
• Paper towels - to soak up excess water
• Pencil - #2
• Pallet : Make it large enough to hold 16 colors and have space to mix paints
• Paints: Here are the basics. You can buy more, but we can build almost any color
  from these..
• These consist of both cool and warm in the primary colors enabling us to
  be able to make the colors we need. Buy your colors In tubes or in cubes. Any brand,
  except where noted you usually get better results with Professional grade, you can use Cotman when brand isn't noted.
• Yellows: Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna*
  Reds: Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarine Crimson, Permanent Rose
  Blues: Cobalt Blue, Winsor Newton Ultramarine Blue
  Others: Winsor Newton Sap Green, Winsor Newton Burnt Sienna
• Waterproof board - To tape your painting to
• Artist tape to tape down your painting
• Knife for scoring . I prefer an exacto knife, and a small hair dryer

Wednesday 6:00-7:30 8 Weeks

$169 Ages 12+

September 23rd-November 11th

Learn to create and elevate your own original characters with illustrator Jocelyn Seib. Understand the process of developing a unique character and their environment in this fun-filled course. Enjoy viewing behind-the-scenes work from masters, and taking inspiration both from them and each other as your character designing abilities flourish, side by side.

Supplies:

• A drawing tablet and software (Optional)

• Sketchbook (7”x10” or bigger)

• Graphite Pencils

• Pen Liner Set

• White Plastic Eraser

• Your preferred coloring medium (pencils, markers, watercolor, etc.)

• Kneaded Eraser (recommended)

• Ruler (recommended)