Dale Farland Everyone enjoys the Canvas & Cocktail class taught by SaddleBrooke Ranch artist Janice Mihora. So, ring in the New Year with her next class on Wednesday, Jan. 31. The theme for this class is Valentine’s Day. Participants will be painting a beautiful heart, which will be just in time to display for Valentine’s Day. As shown…
Erin Newman On Nov. 8, instructor Mary Gavan put on another fabulous dyeing class where Art Club members dyed two velvet scarves using fiber-reactive dyes. These are cold-water dyes that are fixed chemically instead of with heat. They form a strong bond with natural fibers. This makes it the most permanent and wash-fast of home-use dyes. For…
Erin Newman Come and learn about PanPastels: a new, fun, portable, versatile, erasable, easy-to-use, and very forgiving medium! You will feel you are drawing and painting at the same time! You will learn what they are and the techniques and tools you can use with them. How to use them with other media will also…
Erin Newman On Nov. 9, paper-quilling artist Erin Newman offered another quilling class, this time making paper-quilled angels for the holidays. The house was full with 17 Art Club members! Each student had time to make two angel ornaments using two different quilling techniques: first, using a comb in the quilling, and then the traditional method using…
Erin Newman Come and learn about PanPastels: a new, fun, portable, versatile, erasable, easy-to-use, and very forgiving medium! You will feel you are drawing and painting at the same time! You will learn what they are and the techniques and tools you can use with them. How to use them with other media will also…
Dale Farland Even with the holidays around the corner, it is not too soon to be thinking about renewing your SBR Art Club membership or becoming a new member of the Art Club. The 2024 Membership Form can be located on GroupWorks on the Art Club site under the “About” tab. The annual membership fee…
Dale Farland Another fun SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) Art Club class was held on Oct. 11—wine glass painting! You may think this is not traditional art. Well, it isn’t. The SBR Art Club wants to bring different types of art classes to members. We have traditional art classes such as oil, acrylic, pastel, and drawing classes.…
Erin Newman On March 23, the Art Club invited Nina Fickett to teach a mixed media collage class to its members. It was a fun afternoon learning about gesso, matte gel medium, ephemera, acrylic paint, and many other mediums we used to turn a basic wrapped canvas into a work of art! All the students…
Dale Farland The SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) Art Club will be hosting the next general meeting for existing and potential members on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. in the Art Room within the Creative Arts and Tech Center. We will be discussing upcoming classes such as watercolor, alcohol ink, acrylic painting, and other similar classes.…
Dale Farland Residents of SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) have been enjoying the drawing classes offered by instructor and SBR artist Lisa Friedman so much, she is offering a new class. “Space & Perspective in Drawing” is the next class in the drawing series being offered by the Art Club and is another step on the pathway…