Adult Classes

REGISTRATION

If you have difficulty registering online, please call (541) 772-8118 to register by phone Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm and Saturday 11 am to 3 pm.

Tap into Your Creativity!

An opportunity for you to discover your creative side, enjoy a new hobby, or master a new art form. New and seasoned artists get to explore a variety of mediums and techniques.

FALL 2023

Rogue Studio Figure Drawing Sessions

5 Sessions, Tuesdays, September 26–October 24, 12pm–2:30pm

All skill levels welcome.  All media welcome

Two and a half hours of moderated, uninstructed figure drawing sessions with a live model in the Rogue Studio.  Adults 18 years and older from beginning to advanced levels are welcome.  The sessions will include short gestures and longer sustained poses.  Students must provide their own drawing materials.  Drawing boards, worktables, and easels are available for use.

MEMBERS $45 NON-MEMBERS $55  Materials List for Figure Drawing 

Figure Drawing Registration

Oil and Acrylic Painting Techniques with Linda Dixon

4 sessions, Wednesdays, October 4–October 25, 10 am–12:30 pm

Develop new skills in your oil or acrylic painting. This class will explore brushwork, palette knife technique, blending, lost and found edges, atmospheric perspective, and the various influences of light. Linda will help each student with color mixing, perspective, composition, brush technique, harmony, casting shadows, and use of color schemes. Landscapes, seascapes, portraits, still life, animals, abstracts, and non-objective are all welcome subjects in this class. This is a great class to expand your painting skills.

MEMBERS $110 NON-MEMBERS $125  Materials List Oil and Acrylic Paintings Techniques with Linda Dixon

Oil and Acrylic Techniques Registration

Linda Dixon began painting while living in Italy in 1992. She has a BFA in studio art from the University of Central Oklahoma.  She has taught many people how to paint for the first time and many more have improved their skills under her instruction.

 

From Brushstrokes to Pixels: Translate your Studio Skills to Your iPad Canvas with Meri Aaron Walker

5 sessions, Wednesdays, November 1–November 29, 1pm–3pm

Beginners welcome. iPad required.

Ready to translate your traditional art skills to your iPad’s digital canvas? Meri Walker has been a mobile digital art trailblazer for 15 years while teaching artists to adapt their traditional skills to iPad canvases. In this 5-week course, Meri’s hands-on exercises will get you up to speed with two powerful digital painting tools, iColorama and Metabrush. These apps offer users a distinct interface, foster new ways of thinking, and spark your human intelligence. (No AI invited!)  Reserve your spot today to learn new digital equivalents for your favorite traditional methods with other artists ready to do the same.

MEMBERS $150 NON-MEMBERS $160  Materials List Brushstrokes to Pixels with Meri Walker 2023

Brushstrokes to Pixels Registration

Meri Aaron Walker has taught art photography and photojournalism across the country while exhibiting and publishing her own work for more than five decades. For the last 15 years, she has worked solely with mobile image-making technologies while teaching and coaching other professional, photographers and artists. She has been a Featured presenter and master workshop instructor for Apple Boston and SOU’s summer programs, and at OLLI as well as here at Rogue Gallery, among dozens of other arts centers. Her mobile artwork received 13 awards this year in the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for women photographers.

Getting Started in Gouache with Silvia Trujillo

Saturday, November 4, 10am–4pm

Beginning to advanced artists (previous watercolor or acrylic experience required)

Gouache is a versatile, pigment rich medium that incorporates the best qualities of both transparent watercolor and opaque media into one unique painting medium. This class will teach you all of the basics. You will learn to control the water/ pigment ratio, to layer and glaze, and how to apply the final touches. Have fun while learning new techniques to get you started in mastering the properties of gouache paint!

MEMBERS $110 NON-MEMBERS $125  Materials List Getting Started in Gouache with Silvia Trujillo

Gouache Registration

Silvia Trujillo is an artist and art instructor in Northern California and Oregon. She has over 20 years of experience in fine art study, painting, and teaching.  She is a master colorist, emphasizing color relationships, and works in both impressionistic and realistic styles.

Japanese Woodblock Printmaking with Walt Padgett

Saturday, November 18, 10am–4pm and Sunday, November 19, 1–4pm

All levels welcome

This workshop will provide a basic introduction to Japanese Woodblock Printmaking using traditional tools with certain modern materials and techniques. All tools and supplies, design options and other accessories will be provided for use during the workshop; students will divide into groups of four, each student carving one block in order to collaboratively produce an editioned block print. This workshop is a lot of fun!

MEMBERS $225 NON-MEMBERS $240 All Materials Provided

Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Registration

Walt Padgett is an award-winning Oregon printmaker, with over 50 years of teaching experience, including community college, university, public school and private workshop levels.  He personally trained with printmakers Robert McClain, Toshi Yoshida, and Akira Kurosaki, and has been making Japanese woodblock prints since 1978.

 

Take Your Photography to the Next Level with Tom Glassman

All skill levels welcome. Photography

Dates and times to be determined by student(s) and instructor

Students will learn about tools, accessories, techniques, and lens selection to enhance their photography and printing. Students will be guided in how to look and “see creatively” for impressive photographs – even with a cell phone camera. Classes can be taken individually or as a group. Classes will be customized to what students want to learn and to their time schedule.

TUITION $40 per hour per student

Please contact us at (541) 772-8118 or info@roguegallery.org to arrange days and times.

Tom Glassman has extensive experience in photography.  He was creative director of several ad agencies.  Tom’s first love is still black and white photography, as evidenced by many of his images.  His work is in private collections throughout the U.S.  Tom has taught photography and fine art printing for many years.

PLEASE REGISTER EARLY!

We add new classes three times a year, winter/spring, summer and fall. Become a member and receive our class catalogue and get the discounted member rate.

View our Class Cancellation Policy 2023