All Classes & Workshops

NEW DATE!

FREE! Online Drawing Demo with Joe Mac Kechnie on Wednesday Sept. 9, 5-6pm

Get to know Artist Joe Mac Kechnie and learn about his drawing and portrait classes 

This free demo is the place for students to find out how Joe’s online drawing classes will work. Joe will talk about his 3 upcoming classes and take your questions, and you can discover if one of his classes is the right fit for you. Click here for more information and to register for this free demo.

Now an online workshop!Advanced Finger Painting: Animals! From Photos to Canvas

ONLY 2 SPOTS LEFT!!

Finger Painting a Vineyard w/ Kimberly Adams

Saturday-Sunday July 18-19 / 10:30-3:30

Online Class! All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners! Join artist and instructor Kimberly Adams as she leads students through a step by step tutorial on how to finger paint the rolling hills of a California vineyard. This workshop is for all levels -beginning students and beyond.

Advanced Finger Painting: Animals! From Photos to Canvas
w/ Kimberly Adams

We are sorry, this class has been cancelled.

Friday-Sunday  / July 24-26 / 10:30-3:30 pm

Some experience is necessary. Calling experienced finger-painters! Come and dive deeper into this wonderful technique and create a masterpiece of your very own.  In this 3-day workshop, Kimberly will teach advanced finger-painting techniques which you will learn and practice while painting your favorite animals. This is an ideal workshop if you want to paint a larger canvas or paint a more complex composition.

Not suitable for beginners; at least one 2-day finger painting workshop with Kimberly is required.

Mostly Charcoal with a Chance of Pastel, Animals of the American West Edition w/ Julia Carpenter

4 classes / Tuesdays / July 28, Aug 4, 11 & 18 / 10:30-1:30

Registration will be opening soon. Click on link for more information, in the meantime.

Some drawing experience is necessary.
Dive into charcoal’s velvety blackness and get in touch with your wild side. This 4-week class will feature the majestic animals of the American West: Bison, Bear, Wolf and a Bald Eagle. Learn more of the basics of shading and various techniques to unlock this magical medium.  You are guaranteed to get dirty and have fun doing it!

1:1 Online Mentoring Session w/ Angela Bandurka

Date/Time determined by you and the artist.

All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful. Join Angela for an online session where you can get a custom class for yourself or a loved one! Select the quantity of hours you’d like, and you and Angela can select a date/times that work for you all.

Great for any artist looking to improve their painting or drawing skills!

1:1 Online Mentoring Session w/ Ron Stocke

Date/Time determined by you and the artist.

All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful. Join Ron for an online session where you can get a custom class for yourself or a loved one! Ron is an internationally recognized water colorist, author, and speaker. Select the quantity of hours you’d like, and you and Ron can select a date/times that work for you all.

Great for any artist looking to improve their watercolor skills!

1:1 Online Mentoring Session w/ Kimberly Adams

Date/Time determined by you and the artist.

All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful. Private lessons are a great way to get the focus and attention that you need, at whatever level you are!  If you would like some personalized guidance, join Kimberly Adams, nationally acclaimed oil finger painter and instructor for one-on-one mentoring sessions using  zoom. In each session, Kimberly will work with students ranging from complete beginners to advanced oil or acrylic finger painters, taking her artists from concept to finished paintings. Her goal is to make these mentoring experiences as easy and user-friendly as possible.

Nature & Landscape Journaling w/ Julia Carpenter

4 classes per session / Tuesdays:
June 23, 30, July 7 & 14 / 2:30-5:30pm (Session in progress; registration is closed.)

Now accepting registrations for: July 28, Aug 4, 11 & 18 / 2:30-5:30pm

All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful. Your drawing joys will continue in this next course from Julia! This 4-week class has a focus on nature journaling and landscape sketching, and builds on the pencil and pen and ink skills students learned in Joy of Drawing Continues, with the addition of color media in a mixed media sketchbook. 

Urban Sketching Workshop w/ Robin Weiss

Saturday August 1, 2020 / 10:30-4:30
This class will be an in person class.

All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners! If you’ve ever wondered how to get started in drawing outdoors, this is the one-day workshop for you! 

Starting off at Cole Gallery, you’ll be painting right in Edmonds using a sketchbook with pens, pencils, and watercolor. This instructor has years of experience sketching, painting and teaching “plein air” (aka outdoors), and he will show you how to select a scene, how to capture the mood of the setting… and how to make your drawings come alive! Great for all levels.

Discovery! Intro to Pastels
w/ Janis Graves

Saturday August 8 / 10:30-4:30
This class will be an in person class.

All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners!
Our 1-day “Discovery!” workshops are a safe and encouraging place to learn about doing art. This Discovery is all about Pastels – one of the easiest ways to draw and get vibrant color at the same time! Janis will introduce you to pastels and you’ll plunge into those gorgeous colors, learning to create spectacular effects while creating a beautiful landscape painting. Come join us in this relaxed and fun workshop where your journey to pastel painting will begin!

Painting Passport – A Virtual Painting Excursion Series: Arizona Desert w/Kathleen Moore

YOUR CHOICE! Take the whole month, or pick your favorite class!
4 Mondays: September 7, 14, 21, 28 / 12-2pm

This landscape painting series is your passport to “virtual excursions”, transporting you to beautiful new painting locations week by week! From the Washington coast, to the mountains, to Arizona’s desert, each month will be a new virtual location. While there, you will be guided in painting a different scene each week during engaging, online classes with teaching artist Kathleen Moore. You will build your confidence while developing skills in planning a painting, composition, color-mixing, and much more. Come on, let’s go!

WEBINAR: Drawing a Glass of Water with a Lemon w/Angela Bandurka

New Date!

Thursday September 10 / 6-7:00 pm

All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners! This is a fun, inexpensive way to get some art instruction at home and chat with the artist live during and after the demonstration! Angela will do an online demonstration of how she draws a glass of water with a slice of lemon in it. You can watch as she shows you how she approaches this tricky subject, and then type questions into the Chat feature at Zoom so that she can answer your questions.

A Webinar is a limited-interaction experience that can accommodate many more students at a much lower cost. Students will not have audio or video, but will be able to type their questions during and after the demo.

New!
Try It! Fun with Alcohol Ink
w/ Dana Butler

Friday September 11 / 6-8:30 pm
(Note: this may be postponed, depending on the Covid-19 status)

All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners!
In this super fun evening class, students will have a blast trying their hand at creating abstract florals and landscapes with alcohol inks. Vibrantly colorful, this medium lends itself to creating fun shapes and designs, and there is no right or wrong way to do it. You’ll splash, splatter, daub, mist and stamp your way to a creation of your very own! All supplies are included for the supply fee. TRY IT!

The Drawing Experience Part 1 w/ Joe Mac Kechnie

New Dates!

5 classes / Wednesdays:
Sept 16, 23, 30, Oct 7 & 14 / 2-5pm

All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners! Fall in love with drawing - THE basis for all your future art endeavors. Even if you think you can’t draw a stick figure, instructor and artist Joe Mac Kechnie will teach you how! You will develop basic drawing skills using an approach that combines left and right brain abilities. Most of all, you will thoroughly enjoy yourself in a fun and non-intimidating environment. Great for beginners and a refresher for all levels.

Click here for a short video on DE Part 1 from Joe.

The Drawing Experience 2 with an Expressive Twist w/ Joe Mac Kechnie

New Dates!

5 classes / Wednesdays: Sept 16, 23, 30, Oct 7 & 14 / 10am-1pm

All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful. This class offers a little twist on our classic Drawing Experience Part 2. If you have some basic drawing skills already, whether it’s from Drawing Experience 1 or some other basic class, you are ready for this one! Joe will teach composition and perspective as the backbone of this course. The “twist” is that he’ll be guiding you in expressive and abstraction techniques, to take your drawing level to a fun, creative, exciting place where you learn to express your own voice!

Click here for Joe’s short video on DE Part 2

Beginning Portraits in Charcoal, Pastel and Watercolor w/ Joe Mac Kechnie

New Dates!

5 classes / Thursdays: Sept 17, 24, Oct 1, 7 & 15 / 10am-1pm

All Levels Welcome, Some Drawing Experience is Helpful. A great class for beginners at portraits who want to take their drawing and painting to the next level!  Artist and beloved instructor Joe Mac Kechnie will guide you in your very first portraits, first in charcoal, then in pastel and later in watercolor. You will discover that drawing the portrait is easier and more fun than you ever thought possible! 

Discovery! Intro to Oil Painting w/ Angela Bandurka

New Date!

Saturday September 19 / 10:00-4:00
This is now an online class.

Beginners welcome!
Our “Discovery!” series was created for brand new students. These 1-day workshops provide a cheerful, inspiring and non-intimidating place, where you are surrounded by other new students (not seasoned artists), and led step-by-step by an instructor who loves teaching beginners. Painting should be fun and an outlet for your creative energy, and you should feel safe to learn in an environment that is helpful and encouraging and NOT judgmental or stressful. This is the place for that! In her fun and super-helpful way, Angela will give you a great step-by-step introduction into painting with oils, helping you to feel more confident through the skills you will be practicing and the tools you’ll get to know.

Discovery! Intro to Acrylic Painting w/ Angela Bandurka

New Date!

Sunday September 20 / 10:00-4:00
This is now an online class.

Beginners welcome!
Our “Discovery!” series is just for beginners! Painting should be fun and an outlet for your creative energy, and you should feel safe to learn in an environment that is helpful and encouraging and NOT judgmental or stressful. This is the place for that! Angela will give you a great introduction on how to get started in this versatile medium, helping you to feel more confident through the skills you will be practicing and the tools you’ll get to know.

WEBINAR: Painting a Glass of Water with a Lemon w/Angela Bandurka

New Date!

Thursday September 24 / 6-7:30 pm

All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners! Angela will do an online demonstration of how she paints a glass of water with a slice of lemon in it, while talking about techniques she’d use if she were painting it in acrylics. You can watch as she shows you how she approaches this tricky subject, and then type questions into the Chat feature at Zoom so that she can answer your questions.

A Webinar is a limited-interaction experience that can accommodate many more students at a much lower cost. Students will not have audio or video, but will be able to type their questions during and after the demo.

Dynamic Composition: Designing Eye-Catching Paintings in Acrylics w/ Jed Dorsey

Friday - Saturday / Sept 25-26 / 10:30-4:30
(Note: this may become an online class, depending on the Covid-19 status)

Some Experience is Necessary.
Here is another great workshop with our fabulous Jed Dorsey! Everyone is captured by his paintings – they pull the viewer in. More than his amazing color choices, it’s also his wonderful composition skills. In this 2-day workshop, Jed will teach his design principles and you’ll gain tools to help you make your art pop! Sign up quickly – these workshops fill up really fast!

Basics & Beyond! Five Elements of Oil & Acrylic Painting w/ Angela Bandurka

5 Thursdays / October 1-29 / 5-8pm;
with a Meet & Greet Saturday Sept 26 / 11am-12pm

All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful. This five-week class will walk you through the elements of creating a series of subject matter oil or acrylic, covering these themes: Drawing, Values, Color, Design, and Edges. Each time Angela does this workshop, she choses new subjects to reinforce these same themes, so it’s one that students may take multiple times.

Birds & Animals in Nature with Watercolor w/ Denise Cole

Saturday October 3 / 10:30-4:30
(Note: this may be postponed, depending on the Covid-19 status) 

All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners! 
If you enjoy birds and animals of all kinds (and yes, even your pets) and want to learn to capture them in a simple direct approach in watercolor, then this class is for you!  Denise will guide you step by step, working on a smaller scale, to create a beautiful painting. Having fun with splashy, wet and painterly backgrounds, you’ll capture the realistic essence of each subject. You will also learn how to create natural backgrounds, and fun techniques for trees, grasses and more!

Painting Passport – A Virtual Painting Excursion Series: WA Coast w/Kathleen Moore

New Dates!

YOUR CHOICE! Take the whole month, or pick your favorite class!

4 Mondays: October 5, 12, 19 & 23 / 12-2pm

This landscape painting series is your passport to “virtual excursions”, transporting you to beautiful new painting locations week by week! From the Washington coast, to the mountains, to Arizona’s desert, each month will be a new virtual location. While there, you will be guided in painting a different scene each week during engaging, online classes with teaching artist Kathleen Moore. You will build your confidence while developing skills in planning a painting, composition, color-mixing, and much more. Come on, let’s go!

Painting Life with Life w/ Bev Jozwiak

Sorry this class is full. To be placed on the wait list please call (425) 697-2787.

Friday-Sunday / October 9-11
Friday-Saturday 10:30am-4:30pm
Sunday 8:30am-2:30pm
(Note: this may be postponed, depending on the Covid-19 status)

Some experience is necessary.
“Life” as in people and animals, and “life” as in energy and excitement. Learn to paint boldly with vivid color! Think outside the box, and paint outside those lines! Designed to help students at every skill level to master techniques, you’ll learn Bev’s tips and tricks, work on design, develop good composition, basic color mixing, and strong values.

New!
The Art of Monotype: Exploring the Painterly Print w/ Scott Gellatly

Friday October 9 / 10:30-4:30
(Note: this may be postponed, depending on the Covid-19 status)

All levels welcome, including Beginners! 
Creating monotypes is a ton of fun for all skill levels, beginners and experienced painters alike. It’s an immediate process – spontaneous and serendipitous – that combines painting and printmaking techniques to create something unique and wonderful. Let this color expert and master of expressionism guide you into your first monotype adventure!

Painting Your Journey – At home, around town or abroad! w/ Kim Caldwell 

New Date!

Saturday – Sunday / October 10-11 / 10:30am – 3:30 pm 

Online Class! All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners! Learn the fun and joy of sketching and painting the scene in front of you. Kim has been painting and sketching in watercolor travel journals for many years and creates a safe place for you to learn the skills you need. Now is the time to play with pen, pencil and watercolor.

Painting Grand Vistas in Oil or Acrylic w/ David Marty

Saturday - Sunday / October 24-25 / 10:30-4:30
(Note: this may be postponed, depending on the Covid-19 status)

All levels welcome, some experience is helpful.
Join us as we paint the grandeur of scenic vistas. With demos and individual guidance, David will lead you in a step-by-step approach to painting the landscape as it expands into the distance. We will look at manipulating values, colors, and edges to help you lead the viewer through your paintings. Open to all levels, though some experience will be helpful.

Painting Passport – A Virtual Painting Excursion Series: Olympic Mountain Forests w/Kathleen Moore

New Dates!

YOUR CHOICE! Take the whole month, or pick your favorite class!

4 Mondays: November 2, 9, 16, 23 / 12-2pm

Online Class! All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful.This landscape painting series is your passport to “virtual excursions”, transporting you to beautiful new painting locations week by week! From the Washington coast, to the mountains, to Arizona’s desert, each month will be a new virtual location. While there, you will be guided in painting a different scene each week during engaging, online classes with teaching artist Kathleen Moore. You will build your confidence while developing skills in planning a painting, composition, color-mixing, and much more. Come on, let’s go!

Painting the Portrait in Oil or Acrylic w/Angela Bandurka

New Date!

Saturday & Sunday / November 14-15 / 11am-5pm

Online Class! Some experience is necessary. Learn how to create effective portraits in oil or acrylic without having to worry about perfection or creating a likeness. Working together in this two-day workshop, Angela will step you through her process of creating a portrait, from drawing to color mixing, you’ll get plenty of resources to help you in your own portrait work. 

NEW to Cole Art Studio!
Online Demos, Classes, & Workshops!

We keep looking for new ways for you to experience the amazing workshops at Cole Art Studio. We will now be offering streaming classes, and will be adding classes regularly. Look for the Online logo!

Streaming will allow for students to stay in the comfort of your own home, while still attending a scheduled live class.

Special offer from Jed Dorsey’s Acrylic University

Our first of many affiliate partners! Jed Dorsey delivers acrylic workshops straight to your own home through his online classes. Click here to find out more.