Improve your life painting skills and explore a variety of paint media while working freely from a nude model in this popular figure painting class. The instructor will be present to coordinate class and offer instruction upon request and is a perfect class for beginner to advanced artists. Both male and female models will be placed in short and long poses.

Wednesdays, March 6 – 20
2 – 5 pm

Instructor: Rachel Moseley
Age: Adult (15+) | All levels

Improve your life painting skills and explore a variety of paint media while working freely from a nude model in this popular figure painting class. The instructor will be present to coordinate class and offer instruction upon request and is a perfect class for beginner to advanced artists. Both male and female models will be placed in short and long poses.

Wednesdays, January 31 – February 21
2 – 5 pm

Instructor: Rachel Moseley
Age: Adult (15+) | All levels

Working in oil or acrylic paint, students will explore value divisions in landscapes and the basics of brush sketching and massing. With these skills students will learn how to relate color to value and will gain a better understanding of identifying spatial cues in a landscape. Using foundational skills students can then explore under-painting, glazing and dry-brushing techniques.

Saturday and Sunday, April 6 and 7
9 am – 2 pm

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

• Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

  • 5 – 7 Canvas Boards 16×12 or smaller
  • Palette Knife
  • Palette
  • Paper Towels
  • Selection of bristle brushes (small, med and large)
  • Assortment of brushes.
  • Palette knife, paper towels and a few canvas boards, 8×10 or bigger.

  Paint Colors:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • Black
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Cadmium Yellow or Hansa Yellow
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Titanium White

  For Oils: Gamsol, turpentine or walnut oil for use as a brush medium or cleaner.

To paint the landscape well, the artist must master the various elements of it. This class will focus on the painting a variety of seascapes and the unique lighting situations, rhythmic movement of the water and drama that the ocean presents. Students who have taken the Landscape Basics class will benefit, but it is not a prerequisite. Students will complete three or four seascape projects in this class.

Tuesdays, May 7 – 28
9 am – noon

Instructor: Mike Callahan
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for 10% discount.  

• Paint: M. Graham brand Titanium White (37ml) Hansa Yellow (37ml), Quinacridone Rose (37 ml), Phthalocyanine Blue (37ml)
• Thinner: Weber Turpenoid (pint) or similar artist’s grade odorless mineral spirits 
• Medium: M. Graham Walnut Oil (4oz), Silicoil cleaning jar or other small glass jar with sealable lid (for thinner), Small can such as olive can (for medium) 
• Brushes: Synthetic Brights OR 
• Filberts: Silverbrush Bristlon #2, #4, and #10 Or Connoisseur Pure Synthetic, #2, #4, and #10 Or any quality hog bristle in those sizes if the student already owns their own brushes.
• Painting or Palette knife: (steel, NOT plastic)
• Disposable Palette: New Wave Disposable Palette (grey) or similar,
• Brush Cleaner: The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver
•  Canvas or Panels: 4-canvas panels or stretched canvases 9”x12”, 11”x14” OR 12”x16”,
• Paper towels (i.e. Viva or Blue Shop Towels)
• Nitrile gloves.

In order to paint the landscape well, the artist must understand the light that fills it and how it affects the appearance of it.  This class will focus on the painting various types of skies and clouds, the source of that light. Students who have taken the Landscape Basics class will benefit, but it is not a prerequisite. Students will learn why the sky is blue and why that matters when painting the landscape, how to paint different types of clouds in a variety of lighting situations and how clouds affect light and add drama and interest to an otherwise ordinary scene.

Tuesdays, April 2 – 23 
9 am – noon

Instructor: Mike Callahan
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for 10% discount.  

• Paint: M. Graham brand, Zinc White (37ml), Titanium White (37ml) Hansa Yellow (37ml), Quinacridone Rose (37 ml), Phthalocyanine Blue (37ml)
• Thinner: Weber Turpenoid (pint) or similar artist’s grade odorless mineral spirits 
• Medium: M. Graham Walnut Oil (4oz), Silicoil cleaning jar or other small glass jar with sealable lid (for thinner), Small can such as olive can (for medium) 
• Brushes: Synthetic Brights OR 
• Filberts: Silverbrush Bristlon #2, #4, and #10 Or Connoisseur Pure Synthetic, #2, #4, and #10 Or any quality hog bristle in those sizes if the student already owns their own brushes.
• Painting or Palette knife: (steel, NOT plastic)
• Disposable Palette: New Wave Disposable Palette (grey) or similar,
• Brush Cleaner: The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver
•  Canvas or Panels: 4-canvas panels or stretched canvases 9”x12”, 11”x14” OR 12”x16”,
• Paper towels (i.e. Viva or Blue Shop Towels)
• Nitrile gloves.

Paint the landscape with more confidence by mastering the elements of it. This class is part of the Mastering the Elements of the Landscape Series. This course will focus on painting realistic running water, from the slower moving water of a river to the fast moving waterfall. Mike will lead students through four projects discussing and demonstrating all aspects of running water.

Tuesdays, March 5 – 26 
9 am – noon

Instructor: Mike Callahan
Ages: Adult (16+) | All Levels

Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for 10% discount.  

• Paint: M. Graham brand, Zinc White (37ml), Titanium White (37ml) Hansa Yellow (37ml), Quinacridone Rose (37 ml), Phthalocyanine Blue (37ml)
• Thinner: Weber Turpenoid (pint) or similar artist’s grade odorless mineral spirits 
• Medium: M. Graham Walnut Oil (4oz), Silicoil cleaning jar or other small glass jar with sealable lid (for thinner), Small can such as olive can (for medium) 
• Brushes: Synthetic Brights OR 
• Filberts: Silverbrush Bristlon #2, #4, and #10 Or Connoisseur Pure Synthetic, #2, #4, and #10 Or any quality hog bristle in those sizes if the student already owns their own brushes.
• Painting or Palette knife: (steel, NOT plastic)
• Disposable Palette: New Wave Disposable Palette (grey) or similar,
• Brush Cleaner: The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver
•  Canvas or Panels: 4-canvas panels or stretched canvases 9”x12”, 11”x14” OR 12”x16”,
• Paper towels (i.e. Viva or Blue Shop Towels)
• Nitrile gloves.

Working in oil or acrylic paint, students will explore value divisions in landscapes and the basics of brush sketching and massing. With these skills students will learn how to relate color to value and will gain a better understanding of identifying spatial cues in a landscape. Using foundational skills students can then explore under-painting, glazing and dry-brushing techniques.

Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17
9 am – 2 pm

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

• Supply list: Show email confirmation at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

  • 5 – 7 Canvas Boards 16×12 or smaller
  • Palette Knife
  • Palette
  • Paper Towels
  • Selection of bristle brushes (small, med and large)
  • Assortment of brushes. 

  Paint Colors:

  • Cobalt Blue
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • Black
  • Cadmium Red Light
  • Cadmium Yellow or Hansa Yellow
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Titanium White

  For Oils: Gamsol, turpentine or walnut oil for use as a brush medium or cleaner.

Inspired by her Czechoslovakian heritage, instructor Iva Neveux will introduce students to basic painting techniques to create beautiful hand painted hearts. Each student will create two hand-painted hearts using combinations of dots, lines, dashes and curves. Make one for yourself and one to give to someone you love. All materials included with registration.

Monday, February 12
5 – 8 pm

Instructor: Iva Neveux
Ages: Adults (15+) / All levels

Water and water reflections have always been a fascinating subject for painters, photographers, and observers. In this class students will learn how to capture the beauty of water reflections with watercolors. First, students will explore the anatomy of waves and how the appearance of waves changes within the context of linear perspective. Then, students will look at how waves interact with light, and finally how reflections interact with the entire composition. The wet in wet approach will mostly be used in this class. 

Note*: 100% cotton paper is highly recommended.

Mondays, January 22 – February 5
5 – 9 pm

Instructor: Iva Neveux
Ages: Adult (15+) | All Levels

Supply List: Show a confirmation email at Nevada Fine Arts for a 10% discount.

• Watercolor pallet including a variety of blues including indigo, cerulean blue, phthalo blue and ultramarine blue, or similar types of blue (Prussian, Antwerp, Verditer, Manganese); your preferred yellows and reds, viridian or phthalocyanine green
•  Variety of watercolor brushes including mop brush or any large brush to wet your paper quickly, 1” flat, #6 or # 8 round, #12 or #14 round and a rigger brush
• Several sheets of 100% cotton cold press 140 lb watercolor paper (9”x12” or larger); any 100% cotton brands will work (Arches, Bockingford, Daler Rowney, Bee Paper, Winsor Newton)
• Graphite or mechanical pencil
• Kneaded eraser
• Tracing paper
• Two plastic water containers
• Spray or mister bottle
• Roll of paper towels
• Masking fluid, rubber cement, color shaper/rubber brush/graphics incredible nib or some other tool to apply making fluid

Improve your life painting skills and explore a variety of paint media while working freely from a nude model in this popular figure painting class. The instructor will be present to coordinate class and offer instruction upon request and is a perfect class for beginner to advanced artists. Both male and female models will be placed in short and long poses.

Wednesdays, January 3 – 24 
2 – 5 pm

Instructor: Rachel Moseley
Age: Adult (15+) | All levels