Category: Painting

Harvest Gouache Workshop

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Get Warm and Gather to Celebrate the Harvest Season

Autumn offers incredible colors and textures in the Pacific Northwest. In this gouache painting workshop, we’ll create small paintings and cards to celebrate the season of change and gathering. Perfect for beginners, small groups, teens and adults, this workshop includes everything you need to create a sweet spring scene!

Workshop Details
DATE/ TIME: Sunday, November 19, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Common Fields in downtown Corvallis
545 SW 3rd St, Corvallis, OR

In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll practice with gouache, a water-soluble paint, to paint images of fall including leaves, vegetables, and critters. References, paint, paper and equipment are all included.

No painting or drawing experience needed for this laid back art-making afternoon!

Food and bevergaes are available at the locally–owned food carts at Common Fields.

This painting workshop is open to beginners as well as experienced painters, teens and adults. Registration is $35 per person

All materials provided and included.

Gouache Harvest Painting, November 2023

Gouache Workshop: Birds & Flowers

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Celebrate Spring with an afternoon of art!

Spend a lovely Spring afternoon with us at Common Fields as we paint birds and flowers with gouache. Perfect for beginners, small groups, teens and adults, this workshop includes everything you need to create a sweet spring scene!

Workshop Details
DATE/ TIME: Sunday, May 14, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Common Fields in downtown Corvallis
545 SW 3rd St, Corvallis, OR

In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll practice with gouache, a water-soluble paint, to create small still lifes of birds and flowers. References, paint, paper and equipment are all included.

No painting or drawing experience needed for this laid back art-making afternoon!

Food and bevergaes are available at the locally–owned food carts at Common Fields.

This painting workshop is open to beginners as well as experienced painters, teens and adults. Registration is $35 per person

All materials provided and included.

Gouache Birds & Flowers, May 2023

Ghibli-Inspired Gouache @ Greenhouse Coffee + Plants

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Paint your favorite characters from Hayao Miyazaki’s classic animated films

Sink into a warm drink, surrounded by gorgeous plants, and dip your brush into luscious gouache as you settle in to paint some of your favorite characters and scenes from Studio Ghibli’s classic films like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, How’s Moving Castle, and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

In this workshop, beginner and experienced painters will have all they need to create small masterpieces celebrating some of the most iconic images from Miyazaki’s films. Learn the basics of layering and painting with gouache, enjoy delicious plant-based tea and coffee drinks and take your project home along with extra paints for more cozy painting nights to come.

Workshop Registration

One night workshop
Friday, April 18
6:00 – 8:00 pm

Register at Greenhouse Coffee+ Plants (coming soon)

Gouache Animals Workshop

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Illustrated Animals

Gouache is perfect for sweet illustrations as well as fine art painting with details. In this animal painting workshop, we’ll explore the full creative capacity of gouache to create unique small paintings with stunning color and texture. Perfect for beginners, small groups, teens and adults, this workshop includes everything you need to create a sweet spring scene!

Workshop Details
DATE/ TIME: Sunday, September 10, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Common Fields in downtown Corvallis
545 SW 3rd St, Corvallis, OR

In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll practice with gouache, a water-soluble paint, to illustrate favorite animals of the furry, feathered, scaly, and even slimy variety. References, paint, paper and equipment are all included.

No painting or drawing experience needed for this laid back art-making afternoon!

Food and bevergaes are available at the locally–owned food carts at Common Fields.

This painting workshop is open to beginners as well as experienced painters, teens and adults. Registration is $35 per person

All materials provided and included.

Gouache Animals, September 2023

Gouache Workshop: Summer Postcard

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Paint Your Own Summer Vacation Postcard

Make a totally unique memento of the season in this 2-hour workshop where we’ll capture summer memories in gouache. Perfect for beginners, small groups, teens and adults, this workshop includes everything you need to create a sweet spring scene!

Workshop Details
DATE/ TIME: Sunday, July 16, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Common Fields in downtown Corvallis
545 SW 3rd St, Corvallis, OR

In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll practice with gouache, a water-soluble paint, to create postcard that can be sent to your friends in far off places, or added to a memory board at home. References, paint, paper and equipment are all included.

No painting or drawing experience needed for this laid back art-making afternoon!

Food and bevergaes are available at the locally–owned food carts at Common Fields.

This painting workshop is open to beginners as well as experienced painters, teens and adults. Registration is $35 per person

All materials provided and included.

Gouache Summer Postcard, July 2023

Ghibli-Inspired Gouache @ Greenhouse Coffee + Plants

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SOLD OUT!
This workshop is sold out, but there’s another one coming soon on April 28!

Paint your favorite characters from Hayao Miyazaki’s classic animated films

Sink into a warm drink, surrounded by gorgeous plants, and dip your brush into luscious gouache as you settle in to paint some of your favorite characters and scenes from Studio Ghibli’s classic films like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Ponyo, How’s Moving Castle, and Kiki’s Delivery Service.

In this workshop, beginner and experienced painters will have all they need to create small masterpieces celebrating some of the most iconic images from Miyazaki’s films. Learn the basics of layering and painting with gouache, enjoy delicious plant-based tea and coffee drinks and take your project home along with extra paints for more cozy painting nights to come.

One night workshop
Friday, March 17
6:00 – 8:00 pm

Register at Greenhouse Coffee+ Plants (coming soon)

Insects, Plants & Fungi Illustration Sessions @ Maxtivity

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Get inspired by the serene, the slimy and the sublime in Nature Illustration

Nature inspires in all its glorious shapes, sizes, colors and surprises. We’ll take inspiration from plants, fungi and insects in this nature illustration series using ink, colored pencil and gouache.

Hosted at MAXtivity Arts & Crafts Creative Space, this series is 3 separate classes.

Saturdays, October 29, November 5, November 19
Register at MAXtivity
Registration: $69 per class

Fantasy Landscape Gouache Painting @ Common Fields

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Let’s make some fantasy landscape paintings in gouache at Common Fields!

This Fall, we’ll make dazzling, colorful and fantastical landscapes at Common Fields. Perfect for beginners, small groups, teens and adults, this workshop includes everything you need to start making fantasy landscapes with gouache!

Come join us on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 6:00 pm
at Common Fields in downtown Corvallis

In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll practice with gouache, a water-soluble paint, to create illustrative landscapes to inspire stories, and fantasy. References, paint, paper and equipment are all included.

No painting or drawing experience needed for this laid back art making night!

Food and bevergaes are available at the locally–owned food carts at Common Fields.

This painting workshop is open to beginners and experienced painters, teens and adults. Registration is $25 per person
All materials provided and included.

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Gouache Class at OCCC Fall 2022

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Create whimsical illustrations and paintings with gouache, a water-based medium that layers like acrylic and dries with a matte finish. Perfect for children’s illustrations, cards, and small paintings, this medium can bring to life all kinds of wondrous imaginings. Beginner-friendly class with live instruction on materials and techniques. Students can expect to end the class with at least 2 finished paintings. Materials list provided; materials are available from instructor (includes material fee).

Materials list provided; materials available from instructor (includes material fee)

Class Schedule:

October 20 – November 10 (4 weeks)
Thursdays
10:00 – 11:30 am

Registration fee: $xx
Materials fee: $25
Register at Oregon Coast Community College (coming soon)

Watercolor class at OCCC Fall 2022

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Students will learn and practice skills in watercolor painting. We’ll practice using different tools and techniques to create layering effects for depth in subjects inspired by nature, and we’ll focus on skills for painting outdoors or in a travel journal. Over the 4 weeks, we’ll add techniques to build up to one or two final paintings, per student’s choice. Class studio time includes group reflection and instructor support and feedback to improve skills. Materials list provided; materials are available from instructor (includes material fee).

Materials list provided; materials available from instructor (includes material fee)

Class Schedule:

September 22 – October 13 (4 weeks)
Thursdays
10:00 – 11:30 am

Register at Oregon Coast Community College