Destination: Art Classes & Workshops

Destination: Art offers a variety of art classes and workshops to provide our community with quality instruction, a comfortable environment and support to improve their technique and knowledge. Destination: Art continues to hold classes in pastel, oil painting, watercolor, mixed media, and drawing. Our instructors are award winning artists, and our classes are kept small, granting students the best learning opportunity. Please revisit this page each month to see what classes and workshops are scheduled. If there is an art skill you wish to learn and you don't see it here, please email us to let us know. LocalArtists@destination-art.net

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Paint-Ins

Come join us for a day of uninstructed painting. Everyone works on their own projects with their own supplies. A great time of mutual encouragement and camaraderie.
Tuesdays, 10 AM – 3PM. Drop in, no registration, $15 each or $10 for Associate artists.


Gelli Printing Series - Week One
Debbie Abshear   |   Gelli Printing
Workshop   |   Thu, March 06, 2025   |   $50.00
Come learn how to gelli print papers!
It is highly recommended that students sign up for all 4 classes. If you don’t have any prior experience with gel printing, the first class is a pre-requisite. The classes are ...


Pastel Innovations Plus with Dawn Emerson
Dawn Emerson   |   Pastel/Mixed Medium
Workshop   |   March 7–9, 2025   |   $485.00
Based on Dawn's book, "Pastel Innovations", this class is a fast and fun paced launch into using
PanPastels* and soft stick pastels with mixed media. Many approaches Dawn has developed since
the 2017 publication of ...


Gelli Printing Series - Week Two
Debbie Abshear   |   Gelli Printing
Workshop   |   Thu, March 13, 2025   |   $50.00
Come learn how to gelli print papers!
It is highly recommended that students sign up for all 4 classes. If you don’t have any prior experience with gel printing, the first class is a pre-requisite. The classes are ...


Series III – Adding Dimension – Class #1 Building Unique and Complex Surfaces
Lynn Mikami   |   Mixed Media
Workshop   |   Sat, March 15, 2025   |   $50.00
If you are feeling stuck, unmotivated, bored or just want to play,
explore and learn a little, these classes may be for you. Beginners as well
as experienced artists are welcome!

Destination Art is presenting an ...


Gelli Printing Series - Week Three
Debbie Abshear   |   Gelli Printing
Workshop   |   Thu, March 20, 2025   |   $50.00
Come learn how to gelli print papers!
It is highly recommended that students sign up for all 4 classes. If you don’t have any prior experience with gel printing, the first class is a pre-requisite. The classes are ...


The Secret to a Great Painting in All Mediums
Joe Cibere   |   Any Medium
Workshop   |   Sat, March 22, 2025   |   $75.00
Learn Joe's technique for figuring out the “CAKE," meaning the foundational shapes
defined by one value, of the painting. Try to get the proportions right. Think of shapes,
NOT things! We’ll start with “Thumbies” to ...


Create Art for Your Inner Peace and Well-Being
Carol Francis   |   Mixed Media
Workshop   |   Sun, March 23, 2025   |   $45.00
Nine art projects, enjoyable for artists and non-artists alike, are created during this class by each student while simultaneously measuring your body’s positive reactions while you create. You will be pleasantly ...

Gelli Printing Series - Week Four
Debbie Abshear   |   Gelli Printing
Workshop   |   Thu, March 27, 2025   |   $50.00
Come learn how to gelli print papers!
It is highly recommended that students sign up for all 4 classes. If you don’t have any prior experience with gel printing, the first class is a pre-requisite. The classes are ...


Creative Conversation: Creativity and Cabernet
Lauren Dennis-Perelmuter   |  
Event   |   Sun, March 30, 2025   |   $25.00
Cabernet and Creativity

Inspirational Speaker and Successful Woman Entrepreneur
Lauren Perelmuter

Tapping Creativity For Problem Solving
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In this workshop ...


Negative Painting Watercolor Series
Carmen Daugherty   |   Watercolor
Workshop   |   Apr 3–May 1, 2025   |   $300.00
In this 5-week watercolor class, we will focus on painting trees, leaves and flowers in the
negative painting technique. You will be challenged to shift your perspective and concentrate
on the surrounding negative ...


Altered Book: Rolodex
Monica Moran   |   Mixed Media
Workshop   |   Sat, April 05, 2025   |   $40.00
Learn how to alter an old book into an artful rolodex!

You will learn how to make an altered book rolodex for your desk to store business cards or receipts. You can also use this book rolodex to hold special photos ...


Paint the Beauty of Water Moving Over and Around Rocks
Virginia Kamhi   |   Pastel
Workshop   |   April 11–12, 2025   |   $245.00
Learn to paint rocks in a wet environment. Waterfalls, streams, and our California coastline offer up many opportunities to paint rocks with moving water. Discover tricks to paint rocks with volume and texture and how ...

REPEAT: Series III – Adding Dimension – Class #1 Building Unique and Complex Surfaces
Lynn Mikami   |   Mixed Media
Workshop   |   Sun, April 13, 2025   |   $50.00
If you are feeling stuck, unmotivated, bored or just want to play,
explore and learn a little, these classes may be for you. Beginners as well
as experienced artists are welcome!

Destination Art is presenting an ...


Sketching Your Travels with Pen and Black Markers
Mike Ishikawa   |   Pen and Ink
Workshop   |   Sat, May 03, 2025   |   $100.00
This is a follow up to Mike's sketching workshop in January, though you do not have to have taken the first class to take this one. During the first class, everyone completed 12 pen and ink sketches during the 6 hour ...

Capturing Light and Shadow in Plein Air Watercolor
Geoff Allen   |   Watercolor (other paint mediums welcome)
Workshop   |   May 15–16, 2025   |   $365.00
The goal of the workshop is to review techniques and procedures of improving your plein air painting by focusing on visualization, simplification, and editing while accentuating expression, mood, and atmosphere. No ...

Expressions in Light- The Beauty of Pastel
Teresa Saia-Morell   |   Pastel
Workshop   |   June 6–8, 2025   |   $450.00
IN THIS WORKSHOP TERESA WILL HELP YOU TAKE YOUR LANDSCAPES TO A POWERFUL NEW LEVEL. THE WORKSHOP WILL DEMONSTRATE TERESA’S LOVE FOR LIGHT AND MOOD WITH THE OVERALL FOCUS: TO BUILD A BETTER LANDSCAPE.
This workshop ...


Practical Color in Beeswax Collage
Dina Wakley   |   Mixed Media
Workshop   |   July 12–13, 2025   |   $250.00
Join me for a 2-day workshop where we brainstorm and create effective color schemes with our favorite
colors and motifs. Next we’ll create many printed and painted papers to use for layers in our work. Then we’ll
take ...