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.


Mentoring Monthly Workshop
Frank Minuto   |   All Mediums
Workshop   |   Thu, June 15, 2023   |   $50.00
Many artists have found Frank Minuto's insight invaluable and have felt he has helped their art to progress to the next level. During the class, artists will work independently on their own projects. Frank will mentor ...

Textured Surfaces for Pastel
Kathleen Weil   |   Pastel and medium - see list
Workshop   |   Sat, June 24, 2023   |   $60.00
This fun class will cover applying the pastel ground medium to a paper surface. We will discuss various ways to color the medium, either before or during application. After the textured surface has dried, we will do ...

Capturing the Light Using Gouache
Mike Hernandez   |   Gouache
Workshop   |   Sat, July 08, 2023   |   $150.00
Mike Hernandez will cover the important fundamentals of composition, color relationships, lighting, atmospheric perspective, simplification and shape design through the use of gouache. This is a great workshop for any ...

Capturing the Light in Gouache ZOOM OPTION
Mike Hernandez   |   Gouache
Workshop   |   Sat, July 08, 2023   |   $150.00
Mike Hernandez will cover the important fundamentals of composition, color relationships, lighting, atmospheric perspective, simplification and shape design through the use of gouache. This is a great workshop for any ...

Mentoring Monthly Workshop
Frank Minuto   |   All Mediums
Workshop   |   Thu, July 20, 2023   |   $50.00
Many artists have found Frank Minuto's insight invaluable and have felt he has helped their art to progress to the next level. During the class, artists will work independently on their own projects. Frank will mentor ...

Create, Don't Copy - In-Person
Joe Cibere   |   Watercolor
Workshop   |   Sat, July 22, 2023   |   $75.00
In this Workshop Joe Cibere will show you how to take the best parts of your photo, draw the big shapes and define them with three values, then paint the juicy shapes and let the watercolor finish the ...

Create, Don't Copy - ZOOM
Joe Cibere   |   Watercolor
Workshop   |   Sat, July 22, 2023   |   $75.00
In this Workshop Joe Cibere will show you how to take the best parts of your photo, draw the big shapes and define them with three values, then paint the juicy shapes and let the watercolor finish the painting!

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Good Stuff I've Learned & Want to Share
David Wolfram   |   Pastel
Workshop   |   August 11–12, 2023   |   $225.00
“Please join me in my August “beat the desert heat’ two day workshop.”

Over the years I have attended numerous workshops, and learned a lot of different ways of creating art in pastels. In many cases, I have combined ...


Mentoring Monthly Workshop
Frank Minuto   |   All Mediums
Workshop   |   Thu, August 17, 2023   |   $50.00
Many artists have found Frank Minuto's insight invaluable and have felt he has helped their art to progress to the next level. During the class, artists will work independently on their own projects. Frank will mentor ...

Mentoring Monthly Workshop
Frank Minuto   |   All Mediums
Workshop   |   Thu, September 21, 2023   |   $50.00
Many artists have found Frank Minuto's insight invaluable and have felt he has helped their art to progress to the next level. During the class, artists will work independently on their own projects. Frank will mentor ...

Mentoring Monthly Workshop
Frank Minuto   |   All Mediums
Workshop   |   Thu, October 19, 2023   |   $50.00
Many artists have found Frank Minuto's insight invaluable and have felt he has helped their art to progress to the next level. During the class, artists will work independently on their own projects. Frank will mentor ...

Mentoring Monthly Workshop
Frank Minuto   |   All Mediums
Workshop   |   Thu, November 16, 2023   |   $50.00
Many artists have found Frank Minuto's insight invaluable and have felt he has helped their art to progress to the next level. During the class, artists will work independently on their own projects. Frank will mentor ...

Watercolor Basics
Sean Barrett   |   Watercolor
Class   |   Jun 7–Jul 5, 2023   |   $160.00
In this class Sean Barrett will give you motivation for painting in watercolor, go over materials and techniques, and color mixing. Your first project will employ the time honored technique of copying a masterwork, in ...

Creating Studies for Successful Landscape Paintings
Joe Mancuso   |   Soft Pastel
Workshop   |   June 8–9, 2023   |   $150.00
Studies can be used as an integral part in creating any successful pastel landscape painting. Joe uses studies as part of his process to create ideas for a composition which helps refine his vision for a painting. He ...