An extensive two day workshop exploring the monotype and other processes designed for the novice & experienced. On completion of the workshop you will have four finished art pieces of your own to take home!! The workshop will cover the following techniques: multiple plate monotypes, stencils, calligraphs, viscosity monotypes, chine colle’, and mixed media. The [...]

Make your work more personal by controlling the language of color, creating focal points, and discovering your unique creative voice in this one-of-a-kind private painting workshop. Students will work on location, do studio work, and paint from photos to create a truly unique process of putting paint on paper.

Would you like to share memories and celebrate new experiences through art and creativity? Join us and give the gift of art to yourself and to your friends and Everything is glad to be alivefamily. All levels of experience, from total beginner to professional artist, are welcome.

We begin with learning the basics of working with encaustic wax and explore techniques such as using stencils, imbedding objects, transferring images from laser copies, and adding texture and color to encaustic pieces.

Sketching and Painting Santa Fe with Jane Shoenfeld’s Art Adventures in the Southwest Would you like to share memories and celebrate new experiences through art and creativity? Join us and give the gift of art to you and your friends and family. All levels of experience, from total beginner to professional artist, are welcome. We [...]

This workshop is a one day intensive for almost all you need to know about  the ancient practice of painting with beeswax. You will learn how to make homemade gesso, make your own colors, and different techniques of application. Wax painting is truly unique and Fun. Take home your new wax creation. Nicola Gadbois has [...]

Painting for process. Come and explore the paint, brush and paper. 4 hours of open studio, using tempera and paper.cssf3151
No previous art background necessary. Just time to be with oyour own expressions, with color, shape and image as it beckons you to explore. Play and Enjoy.

Painting large scale using basic brushes and acrylic paints, these transformative experiences help women and men find freedom from the inner critic, learn to trust their inner voice and renew their playful spirit. T

Julie Claire is an artist and a trained creativity and life coach working in Santa Fe and El Rito New Mexico. She primarily works with women and men at midlife, who want to live, work and create from a deeply heart-connected place. She has been leading workshops and facilitating creative experiences for over five years.

DIY: A Creative Tourism Journey features exclusive savings on lodgings during the entire month of March. *Guests book their accommodations directly with the hotel, bed and breakfast, or inn of their choice. *Guests reserve all workshops directly with the artist of their interest. Please contact artist(s) prior to booking your room reservation to ensure workshop [...]

This intensive oil portrait & figurative studio class will concentrate on the magical qualities of oil portrait at one single session. The purpose of this class is to study the building stages of creating a portrait painting from life. At the beginning stage, students will learn monochromatic approach to capture the gesture and likeness of [...]

The focus is on the Santa Fe landscape and architecture. Outdoor classes are held within ten minutes of downtown Santa Fe in beautiful settings with mountain vistas and adobe architecture. Studio is available for classes when it is cooler or upon request.

DIY: A Creative Tourism Journey features exclusive savings on lodgings during the entire month of March. *Guests book their accommodations directly with the hotel, bed and breakfast, or inn of their choice. *Guests reserve all workshops directly with the artist of their interest. Please contact artist(s) prior to booking your room reservation to ensure workshop [...]

DIY: A Creative Tourism Journey features exclusive savings on lodgings during the entire month of March. *Guests book their accommodations directly with the hotel, bed and breakfast, or inn of their choice. *Guests reserve all workshops directly with the artist of their interest. Please contact artist(s) prior to booking your room reservation to ensure workshop [...]

DIY: A Creative Tourism Journey features exclusive savings on lodgings during the entire month of March. *Guests book their accommodations directly with the hotel, bed and breakfast, or inn of their choice. *Guests reserve all workshops directly with the artist of their interest. Please contact artist(s) prior to booking your room reservation to ensure workshop [...]

DIY: A Creative Tourism Journey features exclusive savings on lodgings during the entire month of March. *Guests book their accommodations directly with the hotel, bed and breakfast, or inn of their choice. *Guests reserve all workshops directly with the artist of their interest. Please contact artist(s) prior to booking your room reservation to ensure workshop [...]

Tips and Techniques: Working with Temperature Mickey Bond Frost is a type of ice created when water in the air goes directly from a vapor to a solid, usually on surfaces low to the ground. When the dew point and outdoor temperature dips below 32° F conditions are right for frost formation. It’s fun to [...]

DIY: A Creative Tourism Journey features exclusive savings on lodgings during the entire month of March. *Guests book their accommodations directly with the hotel, bed and breakfast, or inn of their choice. *Guests reserve all workshops directly with the artist of their interest. Please contact artist(s) prior to booking your room reservation to ensure workshop [...]

Painting into the New Year on Upper Canyon Road, Santa FE Release the Old, Invoke the New Experience your life in the flow! As the New Year begins, we have the opportunity to break free of old constricting patterns and explore new ways of being, news ways of thriving–living big– and less inner critic shut-down. [...]

There is a secret magic to painting for process, with no intention, goal, or predetermined end result. The very act of creating, beyond judgment, critiquing, analyzing, technique or skill can release the flow. Creative blocks are opened for artist and novice alike. The natural event of creativity in our lives opens up to new and [...]

Painting into the New Year Release the Old, Invoke the New Experience your life in the flow! Play with paint, explore, create, be bold! As the New Year begins, we have the opportunity to break free of old constricting patterns and explore new ways of being, news ways of thriving–living big! This workshop is taking [...]

We all have them, piles of paintings on canvas that are collecting dust. We can’t throw them away but don’t know what to do with them. Take three days to discover just how inspiring this stockpile can be. Bring acrylic, watercolor and gouache paintings as well as charcoal, pencil and pastels that you are ready [...]

Discovering Abstraction: painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and more! Through exploration and experimentation of various techniques and art materials, artists develop their unique creative expression. Elements and principles of design and art history will be integrated into choice-based stations and collaborative art making. About Shakti: Hans Hofmann once said, “When I paint, I improvise…I deny theory [...]

Explore the artistic benefits of creating a your own series in a 3-day hands-on intensive workshop focusing on abstraction. We’ll use mixed media, acrylic paint, and non-traditional painting tools to liberate creativity & suspend negative judgement. Participants will create three paintings or more a day. Other topics will include under- painting techniques, the joys of [...]

We all have them, piles of paintings on canvas that are collecting dust. We can’t throw them away but don’t know what to do with them. Take three days to discover just how inspiring this stockpile can be. Bring acrylic, watercolor and gouache paintings as well as charcoal, pencil and pastels that you are ready [...]

Harness the power of negative space and the absence of color by masking areas of your work with a variety of media and acrylic. Rubber cement, marbles, acrylic polymers, plastic wrap, string, and tin foil are just some of the materials we’ll use to create unexpected marks, zones and shapes. Whatever your artistic style or [...]

Students will have the opportunity to paint landscapes on site in the beautiful Santa Fe mountains, the Historic Pecos Monument and villages in the area. The fall color should be reaching it peak at that time. Class will begin with instruction in composition and include a demonstration by the instructor on site. Students may paint [...]

The beauty and challenge of painting in transparent watercolor can now be explored in this continuation of the “Fun With Watercolor” course. Any painter who has some experience in watercolor is welcome to join this class, which explores professional-quality techniques, composition possibilities and advanced strategies for beautiful watercolors. When:  Wednesday, October 31 to December 12, [...]

Discovering Abstraction: painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and more! Through exploration and experimentation of various techniques and art materials, artists develop their unique creative expression.  Elements and principles of design and art history will be integrated into choice-based stations and collaborative art making. About Shakti: Hans Hofmann once said, “When I paint, I improvise…I deny theory [...]

This painting class introduces beginning students to the fundamentals of making beautiful watercolors. Learn how to use paint, brushes and paper to create easy and fun effects that excite and entertain. All the basic techniques of paint application and tool usage are covered, as well as professional strategies for starting, executing and finishing paintings. Have [...]

Students will have the opportunity to paint landscapes on site in the beautiful Santa Fe mountains, the Historic Pecos Monument and villages in the area.  The fall color should be reaching it peak at that time.  Class will begin with instruction in composition and include a demonstration by the instructor on site.  Students may paint [...]

Drawing and painting are the foundation skills of making art. This workshop will provide a range of experiences in the basic mediums of charcoal, pencil, chalk pastels, oil pastels and acrylic paint, for for students of all levels. Learn a variety of approaches to drawing and painting as a way to practice and expand your skills. [...]

Explore the artistic benefits of creating a your own series in a 3-day hands-on intensive workshop focusing on abstraction. We’ll use mixed media, acrylic paint, and non-traditional painting tools to liberate creativity & suspend negative judgement. Participants will create three paintings or more a day. Other topics will include under- painting techniques, the joys of [...]

  We all have them, piles of paintings on canvas that are collecting dust. We can’t throw them away but don’t know what to do with them and this goes for old drawings and pastels as well as work on clayboard and panel. Take three days to discover just how inspiring this stockpile can be. Bring [...]

Harness the power of negative space and the absence of color by masking areas of your work with a variety of media and acrylic. Rubber cement, marbles, acrylic polymers, plastic wrap, string, and tin foil are just some of the materials we’ll use to create unexpected marks, zones and shapes.  Whatever your artistic style or media, [...]