year   around   ART  lessons

Do you need a place to teach, guide and encourage you? Where you are allowed to get messy and learn new ideas for art explorations? Then come join us in our art studio and see what you can create. Lessons vary and may include guided lessons, personal expression, and techniques in paints, pastels, collage materials, weaving, beads, pompoms, pipe cleaners, recycled materials, and natural materials. Teacher has a Master of Arts degree in art education and years of teaching art in Stanislaus County schools, TK and up.

Group and Special Classes

Three group art classes are available: 

Creative Kids Art group

Get your hands into a variety of art materials as you experiment and explore with art. Lessons begin with inspirational books, artists and artworks plus instruction in use of the day's techniques and materials. Then you might follow the instructor's model to help you create your own artwork. Or sometimes you may explore creating your own ideas with the materials for the day. All materials included.

Ages 7 - 12

$60 per month for four 60 minute sessions (minimum of 3 students).

4:00 - 5:00 on Mondays from September through December 2025

Call to make a reservation.

Afternoon Youth Art group

Learn about art history, design, and more as you improve your skills to draw, paint, and sculpt. Also participate in some art games. Sessions vary. All materials included.

Ages 12- 18

$70 per month for four 70 minute sessions (minimum of 3 students).  

4:00 - 5:10 from September through December 2025

Call to make a reservation.

Art Exploration for ages 4-7 

$55 per month for four 45 minute sessions (minimum of 3 students)

Call to get on a list, or get some friends together to make up a class.

Call and leave a message with name and phone number to reserve a space.

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  PRIVATE PERSONALIZED ART  LESSONS

For growth in art, it is best to work in one medium (paint, pencil, pastels, printmaking, clay and so forth) over multiple lessons to gain skill in the use of those materials.  It is recommended to choose one area for a series of lessons.

Lesson Options  

AGES 5 and UP: Affordability lesson--Come for 30 minutes to learn skills and start a project that you will finish on your own time at home for $25 including materials. Add a sibling for just $5 more.

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 AGES 7 and UP: Come enjoy your personalized private lesson for just $40 with an entire hour to be taught, coached, and supported. Add a sibling for just $5 more. All materials included.

Purchase a discount package of 4 private lessons for $140.

Semi-Private Lessons

Bring a friend and split the cost of a private lesson plus $5!

Some suggested areas of ART study:

BEGINNERS

Intro to Tempera Paints--brush techniques, opaque and translucent (wash), color mixing

Intro to Drawing--learn about line, drawing cartoon faces with expression, looking at simple shapes, and drawing what you see

Intro to Printmaking--simple shapes make wonderful designs that even the youngest can do

Chalk and Oil Pastels--create vibrant pictures quickly, very satisfying for the young up to the oldest artist

Collage--good for learning design principles and observation skills, and also fun for even the youngest

Air Dry Clay--bas-relief faces; pinch pots; simple creatures; bas-relief scenes; three-dimensional form     NOTE: Lessons in clay require an additional materials fee

Modern Art Designs--great for young children and up to adult ages who have a fear of representational art (those who say they can't draw a straight line or are afraid that what they draw does not look like what they think it should)

Tin Foil and Recycled Materials in 3-D--great for trying out three dimensional work without the added expense of clay. Learn to use an armature and engineering principles that provide stability.

INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED

Intermediate levels progress to work in areas of composition design including planning foreground and background, thinking about size relationships, color choices with a purpose, visual rhythm, center of interest and so forth.

Intermediate to advanced levels are available in all of the media above.  Plus the following are suitable:

Fun with Design--learn what makes parts of a picture or design "pop" and catch the eye.

Exploring Optical Illusions--great fun and students learn about light, sight and the visual world

Drawing in Detail--improve your drawing skills by learning to look very carefully and adding details to your pictures

Drawing in 3-Dimensions--learn about the illusions to create a 3-D world on a 2-D paper

Drawing the body in motion--one of the most difficult things for students to do, but I have a secret that really helps them loosen up

Portraiture--work in varied media for different ways to portray the face and body from simple abstract to more realistic

Painting Landscapes--learn different brush techniques and how to plan the different parts of your composition for interesting effects

Painting Still Lifes--learn to look carefully and paint what you see while using your "artistic license" for a creative composition

Fabric arts--learning to weave or sew.

Communication--learn to plan a composition like a poster that really appeals to the viewer and says what you want them to understand--GREAT FOR STUDENTS RUNNING FOR SCHOOL OFFICE

Art Appreciation--learn from great artists to inspire you in your own works!

Have other ideas?  Just ask about the possibilities...

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Special Classes

Parent/Young Child -- Group Art Exploration 

This is an opportunity for young ones to explore art materials with the help of a teenage sibling, parent or grandparent.  

Parents learn how to motivate and encourage creativity. 

Ages 4 - 6

$15 per child for parent/child group of 3 families -- per 45-60  minute session (depending on attention span). Add a sibling for $5 more.

Scheduled as we create a group. Group starts when enough students enroll. 

Reservations Required so call to get on the interest list now.

TODDLER and PARENT

Get your hands into fun materials with your own half hour art explorations for parent and child.  Scheduled privately.

Ages 2-4

$25.  Add a sibling for $5 more.

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Discount for additional sibling of similar age and interest sharing one art lesson, and for couples sharing one art lesson

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Private and Group Sewing

Click the three line menu button to the left at the top of this page for a side bar menu to go to the sewing page 

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CLOSED SUNDAYS

ALL SERVICES ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Please call weekdays between 10 am and 5:00 pm

Saturdays from 10 am to 3 pm