Classes & Workshops
Learn Acrylic, Mixed Media and Encaustic Painting!
Senior Group Mixed Media/Acrylic Painting Lesson
Learn the foundation of acrylic painting, incorporating mixed media techniques that will teach the essential skills that will allow you to continue praticing on your own.
Class Description
COST: $200 for up to 12 participants or $20 per participant with minimum 10 participants
(includes supplies)
Class Length: 3 Hours
Class Level: Beginning to Intermediate
This class is designed to teach the essentail skills to work through an entire painting including, choosing your subject, composition, color theory, tool and brush techniques, color mixing, mixed media techniques and finishing your painting.
If you are an Activities Director at a senior living facility or senior center interested in hosting an art class for your community, please contact me and we can discuss your needs. Please note: If you provide the paints and canvas for this class, you can subtract $50 from the above cost.
What I Provide:
- Step-by-step Art Instruction
- Plastic table covers
- Aprons
- Brushes
- Canvas (approximately 11 x 14)
- Easels
- Paint
- Paper Plates/Palettes
- Water Cups
- Music
What You Provide:
- Well lit location
- Tables for up to 12 people
- Floor covering to keep floor clean – if desired
- Sink for water access
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(includes supplies)
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COST: $200 for up to 12 participants
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Senior Mixed Media Group Course – Following the Foundations of Creative Aging
Cost: $750 (includes supplies)
Class Length: 9 weeks – 1.5 hours per week
This is a 9 week course that will take place in your senior community and will build upon the skills developed each week, ending with an art exhibition within your community.
It has been proven that sequential learning in senior environments reduces depression, doctor visits, the need for medication and builds confidence and stronger friendships among the community.
Meet Jana Soiseth, Your Instructor
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Hello! I’m excited to meet you! I’m a clasically trained artist working in mixed media and encaustic art. After art school, I worked for a graphic design agency and from there transitioned into owning my own agency. For 25 years, I have been creating art whether on screen for clients or in my studio for collectors. I love all styles of art, but I adore encaustic and mixed media due to it’s beauty and versitlity. I am passionate about my art and believe that learning never stops. There is always something new to learn, whether it’s a new technique or working with a new product. Come along with me and I will share with you the wonder of art making.
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