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.
Tenth Anniversary Celebration and Showcase
Destination: Art
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Event
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Sat, November 16, 2024
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$20.00
In November 2014, Destination: Art opened our doors in downtown Torrance. We are eager to celebrate 10 years of success with you—our artists, friends, business associates, and family. Come for an afternoon of beautiful ...
Wet and Dry Combo Watercolor Workshop
Joe Cibere
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Watercolor
Workshop
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Sat, November 23, 2024
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$75.00
We'll learn how to paint wet on dry and wet on wet at the same time to give both
hard and soft edges to create depth and focus and make your watercolors more
exciting!.
Big advantage as you’re able to use the same ...
Exploring The Power of Color and Value Through Landscape
Dori Dewberry
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Pastel
Workshop
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Sat, December 07, 2024
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$120.00
Join me for a one day pastel workshop where we take a deep dive into the vibrant world of color theory and the subtle nuances of value, all through the lens of landscape art.
What you’ll learn:
–Understand the ...
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 the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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$425.00
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 ...
SBWS Negative Painting Watercolor Workshop
Carmen Daugherty
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Watercolor
Workshop
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October 24–25, 2024
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$200.00
Learn how to add depth, dimension and a luminous quality to your watercolor painting in this
2-day workshop. You will be challenged to shift your perspective and concentrate on the
surrounding negative space, rather ...
Creative Conversation - Thinking Outside of the Box
Joe Cernanskyand Rick Kamrath
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Event
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Sun, October 27, 2024
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$10.00
Joe and Rick will walk us through the art of imagining, conceiving and bringing a brand-new invention to reality. With collaboration, we will experience the art and creativity of thinking outside the box for ideas, how ...