Classes/Workshops

NVAL Workshops & Classes are Open to the Public

SHAPE SHIFTING: ABSTRACTING THE LANDSCAPE

Instructor:  Dale Laitinen

Dates:  October 2 – 4, 2024

At:  Redding Teen Center, Caldwell Park

Learn compositional techniques for abstracting the landscape.

Watercolors or Acrylics

Cost $300 for NVAL members, $350 for non-members

Sign up and pay online or in person at NVAL Carter House Gallery.  Limited to 20 participants.

Click Here for details & to see more of  Dale Laitinen’s artwork!

Dale Laitinen has been painting for over forty years.  He works principally in watercolor, clearly focused on interpreting the language of landscape. He has a BA in Fine Arts from San Jose State University, with emphasis on painting.  Dale has traveled and taught widely in the US and abroad.  On a personal level, Dale is warm and approachable with a delightfully dry sense of humor.

SECOND SUNDAY CLASSES WITH CHUCK PRUDHOMME

Next Class – To Be Determined

12 to 4 pm at NVAL Carter House Gallery

Learn to Paint an Impressionistic Painting from a Photo!

Oil or Acrylic, Cost $40 per student

Sign up and pay at NVAL Carter House Gallery before or the day of class

Click Here for details & to see more of Chuck’s artwork!

Chuck Prudhomme brings years of experience along with an innate artistic ability to create lovely compositions of landscape, cityscape and people using his signature impressionistic style.

Chuck Prudhomme
KATHLEEN EVANS ALCOHOL INK WORKSHOP

Next class dates – September 13 – 14

10am – 4pm at Kathleen’s studio

Cost $100 per student for members, $135 for non-members.  

Alcohol ink Starter Kits available for $45 at the gallery, should anyone need them before the workshop. It’s recommended that anyone who is new to alcohol ink should get their materials ahead of time and practice before the workshop. 

Sign up at the NVAL Carter House Gallery or Online Here.

Click Here for details & to see more of Kathleen’s work

Talented painter, Kathleen Evans, is known for her creativity and skill using alcohol ink and acrylics to yield works that are strikingly unique and intriguing.

Artwork by Kathleen Evans