ArtBlitz Studios

Gel Printed Holiday Greeting Cards

Surprise your friends & family with your very own handmade holiday cards this year! It’s fast, fun & colorful, and you’ll leave with 6 to 10 one-of-a-kind cards to share or keep. We’ll guide you through choosing colors, beautiful layers, and show you the basics of using a gel plate for printing.

Art from the Heart: Handmade gifts of Art

WOW your friends & family with your very own handmade gifts this year! Starting from blank sheets of paper, we will walk you through all the steps you need to create a small group of unique abstract paintings. We’ll guide you through choosing colors, tools for mark making and the basic steps to making your paintings successful! We make it super easy, and we provide all the supplies including: paint, tools, mats, and bags for packaging the paintings to make them gift-ready!

ArtBlitz Studios Figure Group

Welcome to the Art Blitz Studio Figure Group! Our friendly collective of local artists welcome you to join us on Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm. We meet the first three weeks of the month, and break on the fourth week. This uninstructed open studio allows artists to hone their life drawing skills while moving at their own pace. Easels are provided, please bring your own art supplies.

Debra Keirce Art Studios

Private Sketching and Oil Painting Lessons

Beginner to advanced, learn to sketch and paint one on one with a master artist. Online or in person (Ashburn, VA) lessons available. Space is limited.

Garden Corner Studios -- Jill & Haig Evans-Kavaldjian

Our Annual Holiday Greeting Card Workshop

The annual favorite is back! Calling all elves to join us in our cozy studio and make your own unique holiday greeting cards. Bring your 3” x 4” greeting card design ideas to class. Remember -- bolder is better for printmaking! Learn how to transfer your simple design to a rubber block, then carve the block, ink it, and print your design on a set of 10 holiday cards. Bring an old towel or apron to class. $55 covers materials; extra cards available for purchase upon request. Fun refreshments and holiday music included! Age 10 and up (younger students may attend with parental assistance).

Jill Poyerd Fine Art

Foundations for Mastering Watercolor Painting

Watercolor painting at its core is built upon pigment, water, and a painting surface, and in order to master the medium you need to thoroughly understand your materials. This course is designed to give you an in-depth look at the properties of each material used in the watercolor painting process. With this understanding, beginners will have an easier time learning techniques and experienced painters will be better equipped to perfect their skill and solve potential problems. This isn’t a hands-on painting class, but rather is a lecture-based course containing information you aren't likely to find anywhere else.

The Mechanics of Watercolor Painting

The Mechanics of Watercolor Painting is a step-by-step, hands-on painting course designed to guide students through all the necessary skills needed to paint with watercolor paints. Using her approachable, easy-to-understand teaching method, artist Jill Poyerd walks viewers through a total of nearly four hours of lectures and over 30 student activities, covering topics like brush handling, color mixing, paint application, and much much more. This is one of the most comprehensive beginner watercolor classes you will find online, and can apply to anyone who feels they may be lacking something in their knowledge.

Mastering Brushstrokes (I & II)

Brushstrokes are at the core of being an artist, and are one of the things that set artists apart from one another. In this course, artist Jill Poyerd breaks down historic and contemporary brushwork into twenty-two unique brushstrokes, using both oil and watercolor paint in her demonstrations. The instruction includes a brief history of the stroke, examples of how they're used in masterpieces, visual demonstrations, and student practice exercises. By combining technical learning with visual and hands-on examples, students will gain a thorough understanding of each brushstroke variation. This is a two-part course.

Developing an Eye for Landscape Composition

A landscape composition design can mean the success or failure of a piece of art whether you paint, draw, or work in photography. In this course, landscape artist Jill Poyerd, goes beyond teaching the rules. She teaches students how to "see" a landscape and then translate what they see into a successful design. Students of any experience level learn through four hours of lecture and over 22 activities. Topics include what makes landscapes unique, the planes theory, focal points, compositional lines, design tools of the Masters, choosing a subject, conducting a photoshoot, and reconstructing your images. 

The Artists in Middleburg

Equine Sculpting Classes with Goksin Carey

With Ms. Carey’s teaching system everybody can sculpt. And, if you love horses you are at the right place. Join us and enjoy the sculpting process.

The Kelleher Studio Gallery

Classical oil painting

Casual relaxing oil painting sessions from beginner to advanced with professional instructor bringing out your inner creative artist.

  • Ongoing oil painting sessions Monday through Thursdays 1 pm to 6pm
  • Kelleher@rstarmail.com or text at 703728 8829