Beginner Friendly

This little snowman face makes a great addition to any Christmas tree or tie it onto a package for a special friend! This is an easy-peasy beginner project with loads of personality! Give your snowman a top hat or a beanie or even earmuffs! Be brave and make a wool nose or choose a ready-made clay one. Your snowy friend will bring you loads of creative pleasure! Julie Knowlton is a retired teacher and has been needle felting for many years. Julie’s class goals are for students to be successful, happy and have a good time crafting. Julie will provide all materials unless otherwise noted. Feel free to bring your own pen tool if you have one. Choose from morning or evening sessions with Julie, or come for both!

This course is a continuation of Ed Higgins’ oil painting atelier, and is open to any of Ed’s continuing oil painting, sketching, plein air or watercolor students. Others with some experience in oil painting are welcome to join, but please contact the instructor before signing up to see if this atelier style of studio class will be right for you. This term, we will be working alla prima from life. Still Life that is! You are encouraged to choose, set up, and light your own still life, using objects that are meaningful to you. There will be speed painting drills at the beginning of each class to get you warmed up. These will be small 10-15 minute oil sketches on cardboard, canvas panel, or canvas, and will help you learn to mix colors on the fly. At the end of each class we’ll look briefly at an example of still life painting from the history of art. For the last class of the term we’ll hold a final critique event where the group displays and discusses their projects. *No Class: 12/25, 1/1, 2/19. **Special note about art materials: Please do not call our office about materials. Come to the first class with your favorite sketchbook and drawing pencils & pens. Suggested materials will be discussed by the instructor on the first day of classes. Thank you.

What does it mean to "Cut the Cord"? It's about canceling cable or satellite services and being able to watch television shows online, as well as options that would allow you to get rid of your landline. This class will not only show you the wide variety of options out there, but also teach you some tools to decide if cutting the cord is right for you.

About Nicole: Nicole is an experienced teacher/tutor with a demonstrated history of working in the education industry at the preschool, elementary, middle school, high school and college level. Nicole is genuinely getting to know students to make them more comfortable and to make learning interesting and useful for students in an environment in which they feel safe and respected.

Instructor Ed Higgins has conceived of a new type of color theory class for artists that’s fun and intuitive. Many artists get frustrated and confused by color. Either they abandon the theory side of it altogether in favor of value tints of local hues (green for trees, red for apples, etc.), or they try to follow some useless recipe and swatch based system to try and gain reproducible color that never seems to work. The problem is twofold. First, too many artists rely on reference photography and screen images for color, so instead of using color intuitively through realtime observation and analysis of nature and light, they mix colors based on something that has already narrowed and curtailed the range of visible colors drastically. That’s why there are so many dull, fussy “looks like a photograph” paintings out there. Color is what Josef Albers called “The most relative medium in Art.” It is always interactive. The perceptions of it are personal and subjective. Color changes in your vision the second you put a color next to another color. See color in a whole new light with a practical, no nonsense approach using the trial and error you once struggled with. It’s actually the key to your understanding and creating your own theory of color! *No Class: 12/25, 1/1, 2/19. **Special note about art materials: Please do not call our office about materials. Come to the first class with your favorite sketchbook and drawing pencils & pens. Suggested materials will be discussed by the instructor on the first day of classes. Thank you.

This class walks you through the process of creating an online account.  We also discuss how to recover your password should you forget it, what the potential issues are for privacy and safety, and how to best navigate those issues.

You know it will be a fun time with cookbook author Chris Toy in the kitchen!
Sharing recipes from his many cookbooks Chris will be bringing us recipes for delicious and easy appetizers which you can quickly incorporate into your upcoming holiday menus!  Everything's included - but you should definintely bring some containers for leftovers!

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In this class, we will learn how to make three homemade gifts from natural items. These are wonderful gifts to continue to make and perfect for the holidays! Who loves Gnomes? In this class, we will make Giant Holiday Gnomes out of balsam, fir and white pine while using the framework of a tomato cage. To finish them off, we will add a nose and large holiday hat. These Gnomes will be about 3’ high and perfect for your holiday season. We will also make smaller gnomes that can be a holiday decoration or used for a cork stopper in your holiday wine. They are very cute for that small holiday gift. Finally, we will learn how to collect and process balsam for your own balsam fir bags/pillows. In most gift shops here in Maine we sell the fragrance of the wilderness. Another perfect gift for yourself or a loved one. NO REFUNDS UNLESS THE CLASS IS CANCELLED OR RESCHEDULED.