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ANYONE CAN LEARN TO PAINT A LANDSCAPE

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Course Number: 251PTPT120

Dates: Sunday, February 23 - March 2, 2025
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Meets: Su from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM , 2 sessions

Fee: $180.00

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This class is for those who want easy guidelines to improve or learn how to paint a landscape in person or from a reference photo. You will find that even non-artists can learn to paint landscapes with step-by-step instructions. Use your own photos or the instructor's reference photos as a resource. Learn the principles of composition, value, color mixing, pattern and shape while creating your painting in oil, acrylic or pastel. Supply List available on spruillarts.org.

Fee:	$180.00

Save $20.00 with a Spruill Center for the Arts Membership - New and Renewal or Spruill Center for the Arts Membership - New and Renewal

Fee Breakdown

Category	Description	Amount
Course Fee (Basic)	Non-member	$ 180.00
Optional Fee	Donation	$ 1.00

Sharon Weiss

pastelsharon@yahoo.com
Sharon's Upcoming Classes

Sharon Weiss teaches Anyone Can Learn to Draw, a Pastel Workshop, Get to Know Printmaking, Get to Know Watercolor Pencils, Pet Portraits, Muffins and Memorable Fall Landscapes, Sketching with Ink and Watercolor, You Can Easily Create Your Own Website, Workshops based on the styles of Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Cezanne and Georgia O'Keeffe, and several Teen Workshops. She uses a structured step-by-step approach with detailed written instructions and hints. She brings many examples and provides lots of individual guidance that applies to all ability levels.

You can see examples of her work at:

www.sharonweissart.com
www.etsy.com/shop/sharonweissart
www.instagram.com/pastelsharon
www.facebook.com/sharonweiss.319

Sharon graduated from UCLA (cum laude) with a B.A. degree in pictorial arts and teaching credential in art education. She taught adult education painting classes in the San Diego area and has taught drawing, painting, pastel and watercolor pencil classes at the Spruill Center for the Arts since 2003. She enjoys sharing her knowledge with others, particularly those who have day jobs but would like to learn to paint and draw. She believes anyone can learn to paint and draw with sufficient motivation and instruction.

Her pastel painting, "Pomegranate Pair" won first place in the Faculty category for Spruill Gallery's 2013 Student and Faculty Juried Show, and her pastel painting, "Gala Occasion", won an honorable mention in the 2015 show. Sharon's artwork has been featured at the Spruill Gallery, Swan Coach House Gallery, Art Walk at Lenox Square, and other venues. One of her landscape paintings was reproduced on a patient care brochure for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association. Another painting was reproduced on a floor mat sold at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

Sharon had a full corporate career as a health care software designer and retired in September 2016 to pursue art full time. She brings her methodical structured approach from years of writing software specifications and corporate training to art instruction so that even novices can learn to create successful artwork.

Her paintings are in many private collections across the country. Although she is known for her vivid food portraits, she also paints landscapes, florals, pet portraits and non-traditional abstracts.