Summer Art Classes

I am planning a full summer of Art Classes, Salons and Workshops in my studio, #36, in the Life Arts Center, 3485 University Avenue in Riverside, California. Several formats will be offered.

Classes: Passionate Pastels, Watercolor Only Wild, Self-Portraits
Classes are focused on specific media and techniques, and are two, 3 hour sessions long, meeting every other week.

Sunday Salons: Summer Dream Maps, 100hearts Heart-Centered Art, and Mystical Mandalas
The Salons are on a Sunday afternoon and are about creativity, inspiration, centering, and recharging with a 3 hour format which includes meditation and tea!

The Drawing Studio is another format where drawing instruction is offered for 90 minutes on the 1st and 3rd Saturday mornings and will be an ongoing class.

All Classes are open to students of any skill level or experience. You will take home your artwork and handouts listing resources, materials, websites, reading list and more! All materials are provided. Just show up and have fun experimenting and artmaking!!

My classes are relaxed, lively and focused on taking students from wherever they are to where they want to be with their art skills. Click on the link above right to Jo's Calendar for details on my website.

Contact Jo at 951.660.4925 or jothompsonart@gmail.com to reserve your space today!

Sunday Salons: Summer Dream Maps

June 26th

Dream Maps are a way to visualize our desires and express them in a concrete form where we can make our affirmations for manifesting what we want in our lives. Come join us for meditation, collecting and connecting.

Spend an afternoon playing with paint, collage, and dreaming. Let your imagination map out the perfect Summer. We will use personal images, objects, drawings, painting and to create a soul map for our higher self to bring to fruition our dreams for this Glorious Summer of 2011.


Sunday Salon: A series of Workshops with a focus on creativity, inspiration, centering, recharging. Less about technique or media and more about being an artistic person. Holding the vision of how art can enhance our lives and facilitate world change.

The format includes a brief guided meditation to create a sacred space within and without, then a presentation of the Salon topic with discussion, artmaking, tea, sharing our artwork if you choose to do so, and ending with a closing circle.

You will take home artwork and handouts listing resources, materials, websites, reading list and more!

All Classes are open to students of any skill level or experience.
All materials are provided. Just show up and have fun experimenting and artmaking!!

Cost:
$45

Silent Auction at June Art Walk

The June Riverside Arts Walk was great fun! I had a silent auction in my studio and it generated a lot of excitement as people were able to bid on artwork and buy it for very reasonable prices. In the picture is one of my new collectors who bought the original mixed media painting, "Louts Heart Light" and it was her first time purchasing art!

I plan to continue the silent auctions, so next month should be really fun, too! Below are more pictures of the studio! The artwork shown is available to purchase as prints, cards, and canvas prints from my website: http:jo-thompson.artistwebsites.com which you can access by clicking the link to My Fine Art Website on the right sidebar!