Fine Arts, Crafts, and Graphic Design   

Join us for a fun and easy paint-and-sip event at JMC Cellars and create a beautiful watercolor with a vineyard theme. No prior experience necessary! Participants are guided step-by-step through the process of creating a painting, making it accessible and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of artistic skill level. It's a fun, relaxed way to socialize and create art. Unleash your creativity, experiment with colors, and express yourself through art. Participants 21+ can purchase wine at the venue. All art supplies are provided.

Age range: 16+

Location: This course is held at JMC Cellars in Livermore. 

Join us for a fun and easy paint-and-sip event at JMC Cellars and create a beautiful watercolor with a vineyard theme. No prior experience necessary! Participants are guided step-by-step through the process of creating a painting, making it accessible and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of artistic skill level. It's a fun, relaxed way to socialize and create art. Unleash your creativity, experiment with colors, and express yourself through art. Participants 21+ can purchase wine at the venue. All art supplies are provided.

Age range: 16+

Location: This course is held at JMC Cellars in Livermore. 

This is an easy, hand-building ceramics course in two parts, catering to students with little or no previous ceramics experience. In this course, you will create a beautiful wall sculpture in clay, guided by an art educator, Thomasin Dewhurst. Participants will be instructed step-by-step in a series of two lessons that cover preparing, working with, and modeling in clay, creating an original sculptural design, working with under-glazing and glazing techniques, and learning about kiln-firing. To give time for the pieces to be kiln-fired before glazing, the course is divided into two lessons that are two weeks apart. There will be a short meet-up after the final kiln-firing so that students can collect their finished pieces. This course is a fun, relaxed way to learn about working with clay, resulting in a beautiful art work you will be proud to display. 

Materials: Clay, glazes, and firing cost included in course fee

Age range: 16+

Have you thought about painting or drawing but do not know where to start? This course is for adult beginners, or those who would like to refresh their basic art skills, to draw and paint in a traditional, realistic style. With the guidance of local artist Thomasin Dewhurst, you will practice line drawing, shading and blending, proportion, perspective, composition and tonal balance. Then, we will take the drawing skills and apply them to painting practice. Using mainly acrylic paint, we will learn specific painting skills, such as color theory, color-mixing, impasto painting, glazing, scumbling. Selected History of Art references will be included to demonstrate certain aspects, and your instructor will include demonstrations as you learn. Students completing this course will have the skills to better paint on their own, or even participate in more advanced workshops and art events, such as Paint Livermore.

Prerequisite: This course follows Drawing and Painting Skills for Beginners 1; students from this class or those with some drawing and painting experience are welcome. 

Materials: The materials fee of $10 includes all of the tools and supplies that you will need during the course. This is due to the instructor the first day of class. Cash or check only.

Age range: 16+

In this multi-week workshop, you’ll explore the full journey of mural painting—from bold brainstorming and imaginative design to large-scale painting and final installation. Discover the fundamentals of compelling visual design and build real-world skills as you paint alongside experienced instructors. Let your creativity stretch across the wall!

 Each week, we will focus on a different aspect of creating a mural from start to finish:

• pursuing mural painting opportunities for publicly and privately owned spaces
• creating a strong, effective design with stakeholders in mind
• integrating the principles of design with thematic needs
• creating and revising designs with your client
• preparing the wall
• keeping the mural site clean
• transferring your design to the wall
• painting the mural itself
• photographing the mural
• clear coating the mural to protect from damage/degrading
• organizing a ribbon cutting we will join in on to celebrate our completed mural.

Materials included!

Location: The in-person portions of this course are held off-site at Casa Jam in Fremont, and the mural will be painted at KIPP King Collegiate in San Leandro.

About your instructors: Jared and Justin have 14 years of combined education and mural painting experience. They are local artists and co-owners of Cassa Jam, an art studio and store that focuses on building an art community in the Bay Area.

Age range: 14+

This is an open studio series for beginner to advanced artists wishing to work on their own projects with guidance from an art instructor. In this series, students will bring in their own supplies, reference materials, and project ideas. Students will be instructed and guided by art educator, Thomasin Dewhurst. Participants can sign up for one month at a time, up to 3 months. This series is an easy-going and instructive way to overcome creative problems and to challenge yourself to new heights. Mediums are limited to drawing, watercolor, acrylic painting, and oil painting. 

Materials: students bring in their own materials.

Age range: 14+

Have you thought about watercolor painting but do not know where to start? This course if for beginners, or those who would like to refresh their basic watercolor skills. With the guidance of local artist Thomasin Dewhurst, you will practice the art of watercolor painting, the techniques, materials to use, composition, plus aspects of both realism and more expressive painting. Your instructor will include demonstration as you learn. Students completing this course will have the skills to better paint on their own, or even participate in more advanced workshops and art events, such as Paint Livermore.

The materials fee of $10 includes all of the tools and supplies that you will need during the course. This is due to the instructor the first day of class. Cash only. 

Age range: 16+

Have you thought about watercolor painting but do not know where to start? This course if for beginners, or those who would like to refresh their basic watercolor skills. With the guidance of local artist Thomasin Dewhurst, you will practice the art of watercolor painting, the techniques, materials to use, composition, plus aspects of both realism and more expressive painting. Your instructor will include demonstration as you learn. Students completing this course will have the skills to better paint on their own, or even participate in more advanced workshops and art events, such as Paint Livermore.

Prerequisite: This course follows Watercolor for Beginners 1; students from this class or those with some drawing and painting experience are welcome. 

Materials: The materials fee of $10 includes all of the tools and supplies that you will need during the course. This is due to the instructor the first day of class. Cash or check only.

Age range: 16+