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CLIFTON FORGE – The Alleghany Highlands Arts and Crafts Center is offering art classes beginning in March.
“Spring is always a good time to start something new, so why not learn to draw or paint?” asked Nancy Newhard-Farrar, executive director of the center.
“Pencil, pen, watercolor or oil-they are all great ways to learn more about what you see around you,” she added.
Drawing for Adults
Drawing is a good foundation for painting in any medium and a refresher can add to anyone’s abilities. Students will learn how to make you pictures look realistic and give them depth using different shading techniques, with pencil, charcoal and ink.
They will also learn how to compose a better picture, draw buildings in proper perspective and learn how to draw bodies and heads in proportion.
The six-week class is intended for adults and will be held on Tuesdays, from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., March 1 through April 19. Cost is $75 and the instructor is Michael Farrar.
Watercolor for Adults
Are you a beginner and want to learn the basics of successful color mixing and composition? Are you more experienced but want to add pizazz, bold coloring, and new techniques to try in your work? This class can accommodate both. Students will work with still life and from their own photos. Lots of one on one help to take you to further on your journey.
The class will be held from 12 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesdays, March 1 through April 19.
Cost for the six-week class is $75 and the instructor will be $75.
Oil For Adults
Often called the queen of the fine arts media, Oil painting is just plain exciting. Students will learn color relationships, blending, palette knife and brush work, to name just a few of the topics covered.
The class is designed to have a lot of one on one time to allow students to work at their pace in a relaxed, but challenging, atmosphere, from their own photos and still life creations.
The class will be offered at two times, from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. and from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m., on Tuesdays for six weeks, March 1 through April 19. Cost is $75 and the instructor will be Michael Farrar.
To register, or to get a supply list, call the center at 862-4447 for more information.
