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.


Capturing Light and Shadow in Plein Air Watercolor
Geoff Allen   |   Watercolor (other paint mediums welcome)
Workshop   |   October 17–18, 2024   |   $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 ...

PAINT A COLOR PASTEL, USING A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO REFERENCE
Mike Ishikawa   |   Pastel
Workshop   |   Sat, October 19, 2024   |   $110.00
Let your imagination soar, using any color from the color wheel for your painting. I see so many artists that are so obsessed by their color photograph, that they spend half their painting time selecting the exact ...

SBWS Negative Painting Watercolor Workshop
Carmen Daugherty   |   Watercolor
Workshop   |   October 24–25, 2024   |   $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 ...


Wet and Dry Combo Watercolor Workshop
Joe Cibere   |   Watercolor
Workshop   |   Sat, October 26, 2024   |   $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 ...


Creative Conversation - Thinking Outside of the Box
Joe Cernanskyand Rick Kamrath   |  
Event   |   Sun, October 27, 2024   |   $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 ...

Tenth Anniversary Celebration and Showcase
Destination: Art   |  
Event   |   Sat, November 16, 2024   |   $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 ...

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 the ...