Classes and Workshops
Spring 2025
Discover Gouache: The Opaque Watercolor with Edward Huff
MAY 6, 7, 8 | 12:30-4PM
Gouache is an opaque watercolor that is used quite differently from transparent watercolors. The techniques use with this vibrant medium will be explored and you will gain confidence to create with renewed vision.
Confident Color: Mixing Brights & Neutrals with Judy Vilmain
MAY 21 & 22 | 9AM-3PM
Maybe you are tired of your paintings looking muddy, and could use some help with color mixing, or maybe you need a push to use color in a more creative way.
This workshop will cover just enough Color Theory to help you mix clean, brilliant colors as well as beautiful neutrals — no more muddy mixtures or too-garish colors.
You CAN learn to mix the color you want every time!
The Art of Seaweed Pressing with Mary Jameson
MAY 31
10AM-12:30PM or 1:30-4PM
Seaweed pressing was a popular art form during the Victorian era when people summered on the coast. Seaweed was admired for its beauty and pressed into scrapbooks with other mementos.
This workshop introduces seaweed as a medium in art. Participants will create seaweed pressings using local specimens and learn techniques in collaging dry and wet seaweed.
You will be making a pressing of seaweed that can be framed and hung in your home.
Summer Still Life with Colored Pencil with Kendra Ferreira
JUN 24 & 25
9AM-NOON
Learn to master colored pencils with techniques for layering, burnishing, blending colors, creating rich darks and vibrant colors. We’ll work with values, texture, and different paper surfaces, as well as learn how to compose and create more interesting compositions in our work.
Golden Hour Plein Air with Amy Bartlett Wright
JUL 10 & 11
4PM-8:30PM
Join us for “The Golden Hour” paint from life this summer. We wait all year for warm summer nights with cool ocean breezes. Aquidneck Island summer sunsets are magical and fleeting! Capture the glow and changing light of land and water from life this summer with expert guidance from Amy Bartlett Wright.
Classes and Workshops FAQs
All classes and workshops will be paid in full at time of registration.
What if I need to cancel or change my workshop?
Cancelling your class registration more than 7 days prior to the class will result in a full refund less the credit card fees if you paid by credit card.
Cancellation within 7 days of a workshop start date results in the full loss of tuition.
In the case that I am unable to attend a workshop, can I give my space to a friend?
Yes, though we ask that you please let us know if someone else will be taking your place in a workshop.
I can’t make all the days of the workshop; can I still take it?
In most cases, students can take part of a workshop, though you should let us know so we can check with the teaching artist. In general, workshops are not pro-rated if you are unable to attend the entire session.
What if PAG cancels a workshop?
In the event of under-enrollment, extreme weather, or other unforeseen incidents, the Portsmouth Arts Guild may cancel a scheduled workshop or class.
If an entire workshop is cancelled due to under-enrollment, tuition will be refunded in full. If a single session of a workshop is cancelled, and we are unable to make up the class on another date, a pro-rated tuition refund will be issued.