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
Please be aware of the Destination: Art Program Registration and Cancellation Policies
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.
Painting Landscapes with Pastels
Joe Mancuso
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Pastel
Workshop
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February 6–7, 2025
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$185.00
An award winning and professional pastel painter with more than thirty years of experience, Joe brings his knowledge into a relaxed and welcoming environment designed for students of all levels. Personal attention is ...
Foundation Fundamentals in Pastel
Otto Sturcke
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Pastel
Workshop
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February 14–15, 2025
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$265.00
Prepping for a painting might seem like mundane work when we really just want to get to the painting part! But poor planning can lead to frustration and unnecessary angst. Beginner or not, this 2-Day workshop will help ...
Gelli Printing Series - Week One
Debbie Abshear
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Gelli Printing
Workshop
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Thu, March 06, 2025
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$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
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Pastel/Mixed Medium
Workshop
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March 7–9, 2025
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$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
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Gelli Printing
Workshop
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Thu, March 13, 2025
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$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 ...
Gelli Printing Series - Week Three
Debbie Abshear
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Gelli Printing
Workshop
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Thu, March 20, 2025
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$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 ...
Create Art for Your Inner Peace and Well-Being
Carol Francis
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Mixed Media
Workshop
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Sun, March 23, 2025
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$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
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Gelli Printing
Workshop
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Thu, March 27, 2025
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$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 ...
Negative Painting Watercolor Series
Carmen Daugherty
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Watercolor
Workshop
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Apr 3–May 1, 2025
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$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 ...
Paint the Beauty of Water Moving Over and Around Rocks
Virginia Kamhi
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Pastel
Workshop
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April 11–12, 2025
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$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 ...
Capturing Light and Shadow in Plein Air Watercolor
Geoff Allen
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Watercolor (other paint mediums welcome)
Workshop
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May 15–16, 2025
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$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
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Pastel
Workshop
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June 6–8, 2025
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$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
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Mixed Media
Workshop
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July 12–13, 2025
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$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 ...
Flowers in Watercolor
Fatemeh "Aya" Kian
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watercolor
Class
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Jan 15–Feb 19, 2025
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$360.00
This six-week watercolor painting class offers a focused exploration of floral art, with each session dedicated to mastering the details of a different flower. Students will learn key watercolor techniques such as ...
Paint Anything Using a Limited Palette
Joe Cibere
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Watercolor
Workshop
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Sat, January 25, 2025
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$75.00
In this workshop you’ll learn how to use a full color limited palette. I call it a primary/printing palette but some name it a warm/cool palette. A warm and cool of red, yellow and blue. I use a primary red, yellow and ...