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Summer workshops are available as half-day, full-day, and week-long sessions designed especially for young artists. Students explore their creativity while learning new skills, beginner-intermediate and advanced, drawing & painting to stop motion film, sculpture, and print. Each workshop helps students build confidence to experiment with different materials, and express their own ideas.
Teen Workshops focus on developing strong fine art foundations. Students engage in exploring disciplines such as painting, and printmaking. Emphasis is placed on technical skill, conceptual development, and individual artistic voice suitable for inclusion in an academic portfolio.
Summer Workshops – 2026 julieartlessons.com Age 7 & up.
Contact – julieartlessons@gmail.com 415 513 2425
360.00 Half Day, 660.00 Full Day Weeklong Workshop Age 7-13
370.00 Half Day, 685.00 Full Day Weeklong Workshop 12-Teen
Mon.-Fri. 8:30am-3:00pm
| June 8th-12th- | 8:00am-11:30am | 12:00pm-3:00pm | 4:00pm-6:00pm |
| Animal Portrait Paintings | Sculpture Hands & Faces – Or- Acrylic Surrealism Painting/Technique | Still Life Painting & Print Making | |
| June 15th-19th | 8:30am-11:30am | 12:00pm-3:00pm | 4:00pm-6:00pm |
| Build your own Garden Painting | Pure Imagination – Stop Motion Film🪄Palette of Color and Music | Still Life Painting & Print Making | |
| June 22nd-26th | 8:30am-11:30am | 12:00pm-3:00pm | 4:00pm-6:00pm |
| Expressive Landscape Painting 🎵🎹 | Sculpture – Pots and fantasy Animals | Still Life Painting & Print Making | |
| July 13th– July17th | 8:30am-11:30am | 12:00pm-3:00pm | |
| Print Making and Design | Sculpture Hands & Faces – Or- Acrylic Surrealism Painting/Technique | ||
| July 20th-24th | 8:30am-11:30am | 12:00pm-3:00pm | |
| Animal Portrait Painting | Pure Imagination – Stop Motion Film🪄Palette of Color and Music | ||
| July 27th- 31st | Closed | ||
| August 3rd-7th | 8:30am-11:30am | 12:00pm-3:00pm | 4:00pm-6:00pm |
| Sculpture Hands & Faces – Or- Acrylic Surrealism Painting/Technique | Still life Drawing and Painting | Print Making & Nature | |
| August 10th -14th | 8:30am-11:30am | 12:00pm-3:00pm | 4:00pm-6:00pm |
| Watercolor! Color wheel, landscape, music, and abstract brush strokes | Build your Own Garden Painting | Print Making & Nature |
Age 7-13
- Garden Painting –With images of the garden students learn to draw in a composition and collage a garden by drawing, painting and print-making. Using the sketchbook in building observational skills, composing the garden onto a canvas and layering the paint while understanding color theory.
- Animal Portraits Students will learn to draw and paint the structure of a portrait, looking at artists from art history in studying light and shadow to describe form.
- Sculpture, Pots and Animals Working with clay gives students a chance to communicate, and problem-solve in a group setting. Instruction guides students in a supportive environment in building their piece in an ancient pot design, and in the Egyptian clay relief. Drawing inspiration from a favorite fantasy animal working into the mass and detail.Â
- Stop Motion Film – Palette of Color & Music -Students learn to play “Pure Imagination” (instrumental piano from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) using the key and melody of the song to recreate a tune to a layered painting in a stop motion film that reflect the subtle nuances of classical music, students will build on innovative and abstract thinking to invent a film with a brush stroke method inspired by Van Gogh.
- Expression and Painting – Exploring the parallels of color, texture, shape in creating form, students play with the flavors of tone in notation to translate from varying moods of classical to jazz music. Students will learn to listen as an essential tool within the scope of an auditory visual language. With the techniques of an ancient Japanese paint brush students begin to create with a sense of balance, soft and hard strokes in expressively building a landscape and composing values light to dark in creating perspective, depth, and to enhance their piece with color.
- Art & Piano – Focus is based on the fundamentals in music, drawing, and painting. Students will learn through pitch, rhythm, cord, and performance recognition and engage in a comprehensive workshop based on music and sound. Translating sound into a landscape painting encourages abstract thinking skills in problem solving, and innovative ideation in creating their original artwork.
Age 10-Teen
- Printmaking – exploring media in silk screen & linocut block printing. Drawing designs from nature and portrait drawing.
- Acrylic Painting Techniques, Surrealism. Using acrylic paint to explore realistic techniques students will look at different surreal artists such as Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali to invent their own surreal ideas building with preliminary drawings into a full painting.
- Still life Drawing and Painting – Through a charcoal drawing students explore symbolism using objects while learning a foundational project in form and perspective. How to start creating narrative-driven composition, followed by an introduction to oil painting in completing a final painting.
- Watercolor! This workshop blends color theory, brushstroke practice, and creative exploration to help students discover the expressive nature of watercolor and color. Participants will experiment with landscapes, sumi-style brushstrokes, and abstract art in a fun and supportive environment. Students will also explore the connection between sound and color by listening to classical music while painting. Musical notation and rhythm will be paired with color expression, encouraging students to respond creatively as they listen.
To purchase a 3 Hour Half Day workshop or Full Day workshop choose which week (Monday-Friday) starting on Monday, this will include 5 day workshop automatically. Google Calendar: Type in tittle of workshop you would wish to sign up for.