A fun day of working from a live clothed model. Some experience with painting in oil helpful. The class will be structured into several short lessons, with each lesson building on the previous. We will be learning 'how to see' the figure through abstract concepts of design.

Students will be working with a limited palette of colors, brushes and a palette knife.

Supply list provided upon registration.

A new concept at Sunbear, we'll be opening the upstairs gallery on the last Saturday of each month for all those interested in painting and drawing with other artists, sharing techniques and ideas, and energizing their artwork! Easels, photo resources will be available and still life setup if requested. Bring your painting buddies and get your creative juices flowing! Please call ahead to register - 5 minimum.

In this beginner level beading class you'll be introduced to the fundamentals of right angle and modified picot edging. Pearl Lace will enable you to create an elegant, simple bracelet while providing you with the knowledge to make even more complex and beautiful designs. Bring your frineds and start a beading group!

This scarf is a featherweight creation, but is strong and has a totally unique surface design. It can be worn throughout the year! With silk worked into the felted wool, the scarf takes on an 'elephant skin' texture, and will be a colorful, contemporary addition to your outfit! You'll make this scarf in just a half day workshop, but you'll learn a technique that can be used for scarves and shawls, and sewn into dresses, jackets and skirts.

Basic Peyote is an absolutely essential stitch for many projects including beaded embroidery work. It's a prerequisite for exciting designs such as Bezel on June 25th. Not only will you learn to be a master of the peyote stitch, you'll also create a lovely art deco bracelet!

Tone, value, intensity, hue – are you sometimes confused by all the various aspects of color? Here's a day in the studio that will give you practical exercises to help focus on each of these terms and others. Best of all, you'll put them to work in your painting and learn to make better color decisions. And, you'll leave with several finished works!

Spend a fun afternoon learning to needle felt. Choose to make either a flower that can be made into a pin or a small animal in your choice of shape and color. All materials will be provided and you will leave with a finished project.

Take your beading skills to the next level and learn to 'bezel'! Using a peyote stitch, you will create a pendant with sparkling beads surrounding a natural stone. This class requires previous bead weaving experience and is a great introduction to the realm of bead embroidery.

The wet felt technique is used to make a non-woven material (i.e. felt) from wool. This technique requires nothing more than hot soapy water, a rolling mat, and roll bar for compression of woolen fiber. Surface designs will be used to create decorative hand-rolled tiles with color, inlaid fiber paper, inlaid woven fabric, stenciled patterns, and shibori patterns. The finished tiles can be used as framable art, or applied as adornment to bags, vests, jackets or scarves.

This is an excellent class for beginners as well as advanced beginners, this class will get you started in a fun and richly colored medium. You'll learn about all the basics including brushes, different supports, and various brands of paint. You'll discover how to prepare surfaces for painting, various techniques for applying paint to achieve different results, composition, use of color, value changes, and perspective. Students are asked to come prepared with their own paints, brushes and gessoed paper, masonite or canvas to paint on. (A material list will be provided to everyone who signs up for the workshop). Students will also need to bring photo references for their studio painting. The workshop will wind up with tips on framing as well as an informal critique of the days work. More experienced painters welcome when bringing a beginner and participating in the class.

You'll learn all you need to know about the back stitch with beads in this beginner level class. Using a natural stone and seed beads, you will perfect your technique and create a unique cuff bracelet. This another great class to take with friends!

Sign up early for this popular class at Sunbear.

Create a stained glass panel from start to finish. You will learn to create a working pattern, cut glass, grind glass, wrap glass with copper foil, solder, and finish your panel. Each class will begin with a demonstration and the remaining time will be supervised hands on construction. Participants will be given several designs to select from - student may use own pattern if approved by instructor prior to class.

Students will be provided with the tools & supplies that they will need to complete the project.

Cost of class series is $140. Max number 4 due to space and equipment involved.

Week 1: Pattern / Cutting Glass
Week 2: Cutting Glass
Week 3: Cutting Glass / Foiling
Week 4: Foiling / Soldering
Week 5: Soldering / Finishing

A great beginning to the "pure pigment" medium, this workshop will load you up with information about this richly colored medium, including methods, materials, resources and techniques. You'll enjoy the morning demonstration, the 3 ½ hr studio time, and will have plenty of personal instruction. You can bring photos you'd like to paint, and we'll provide some too. We'll conclude with an informal critique and information about framing pastels. Most students take home finished artwork from this workshop. Though it's just for beginners, experienced pastelists can bring 'beginner' friends and join the fun.

A supply list will be provided. Plan to spend $50 to $100 for supplies, depending on the brand of pastels.

The ladder stitch is a good beading stitch to learn since it is essential in the process of learning other stitches, such as tubular herringbone, and it's often used in projects. The easy project in this class will allow you to explore new ways of embellishing while creating a fun and organic-looking bracelet.

Create wonderful jewelry as unique gifts for yourself or others with the unusual technique of non-woven feltmaking. Felting requires nothing more than hot, soapy water and a tool for compression of wool. Then you can combine it with feathers, beads, and charms to make jewelry that is totally your design! Bring some treasures to this fun, half-day class and take home original jewelry!

Bring photos of your favorite pet, farm animal, or wild critter and create a lasting three dimensional portrait of your subject. Sarah will teach you how to work raw wool into a sculptural form and apply details like eyes, tails, etc. It's fun, it's artistic and you can continue to create with the skills you learn. Just bring the photos - the rest will be supplied.

Have you ever been out and suddenly wished you had your sketchbook or watercolors to quickly capture the characters, light, shadows or mood of a scene? Ever wished you could quietly draw an interesting person at a library or cafe? Then bring your iPad already loaded with the ART RAGE painting program (or comparable painting program for Samsung or other tablet) and we'll teach you how to use this wonderful artist tool! iPads can be used as a sketchbook to take into the field or as a full-on electronic painting tool to create amazing paintings that perfectly simulate oil, watercolor, airbrush, pen and ink, pencil, pastel or crayon that are worthy of printing. We'll fire you up on Friday evening with demos and basic instruction and on Saturday we'll explore all the possibilities as we go inside, outside, anywhere you can imagine with this exciting artist tool. Be advised you can download or take photos with the iPad which can be used for reference. You can use your finger, any stylus, or a special electronic brush to create your masterpieces. Register early!

In a relaxed, non-stressful environment, we'll explore the most basic of all art forms – drawing. We'll try out all the mediums listed above while using a large variety of subject matter as inspiration. The emphasis will be on learning drawing techniques with each medium as we train our eyes to "see"! Because the approach will involve several levels, this class is a good start for beginners and will challenge those with drawing experience. A demonstration will be offered in each class.

Do you have a cool piece of "anything" that you wish you could wear? A stone or a charm with no hole or bail? Well. we can fix that! This easy and fun class will teach you how to wrap just about anything with wire so it can be worn or hung up. This technique works really will with stones and crystals. If you don't have a special piece to bring that's ok, you can choose from the rocks, jewelry and "found" items I will bring. Come to this fun class and leave with a Christmas gift! (or 2 or 3...) If you have jewelry tools - cutters, round-nose pliers, etc. it will be helpful. The class fee covers everything you need.