The founder and director of the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery, Walt Bartman teaches landscape, still life and figure painting classes and workshops, here and abroad. His career spans four decades. He received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Art History from American University and he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Belgium and Holland. His philosophy of painting centers on personal interpretation and the unique approach to the ordinary. For him, a great painting includes all the arts. He works with all levels of students and challenges them to ‘see’ more. Walt’s own work is representational in subject, but with an abstract approach to seeing and expressing his thoughts on canvas. He is a colorist and he shares his knowledge with his students.
It is the invisible that needs to be found, the clue is in the visible.
Learn more about Walt Bartman as he discusses his work. Click Here
Watch Walt demonstrate how to paint in Gouache. Click Here
Walt Bartman’s Exhibition 2021 Click Here
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Walt Bartman’s Online Gallery. All work for sale. Click Here
Current and Upcoming Classes
SPRING
Virtual Flower Painting Workshop $250.00
Walt Bartman
Sa, Su, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
4/15/2023-4/16/2023
Virtual Landscape Painting Mondays $350.00
Walt Bartman
M, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/17/2023-6/26/2023
Virtual Landscape Painting Tuesdays $350.00
Walt Bartman
Tu, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/20/2023
Virtual and Offsite Sunset Painting $350.00
Walt Bartman
Tu, 6:30 PM-9:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/20/2023
Offsite Landscape on Location $350.00
Walt Bartman
W, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/21/2023
Onsite Landscape, Figure & Studio Painting $350.00
Walt Bartman
W, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/21/2023
Virtual Learn to Work with Opaque Watercolor- Gouache $350.00
Walt Bartman
Th, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/20/2023-6/22/2023
Offsite Cow Painting on Location Workshop $250.00
Walt Bartman
Sa, Su, 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
5/6/2023-5/7/2023
Offsite Sunset Painting on the Potomac Workshop $125.00
Walt Bartman
Sa, Su, 5:00 PM-8:00 PM
5/20/2023-5/21/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Landscape Painting Tuesdays $210.00
Walt Bartman
Tu, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/18/2023-8/22/2023
Virtual and Offsite Sunset Painting $210.00
Walt Bartman
Tu, 6:30 PM-9:30 PM
7/18/2023-8/22/2023
Offsite Landscape on Location $210.00
Walt Bartman
W, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/19/2023-8/23/2023
Onsite Landscape, Figure & Studio Painting $210.00
Walt Bartman
W, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
7/19/2023-8/23/2023
Virtual Learn to Work with Opaque Watercolor- Gouache $210.00
Walt Bartman
Th, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/20/2023-8/24/2023
2023 TILGHMAN WORKSHOPS
Offsite Paint the Chesapeake on Tilghman Island $250.00
Walt Bartman
F,Sa,Su, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
6/2/2023-6/4/2023
Offsite Paint the Chesapeake on Tilghman Island $250.00
Walt Bartman
F,Sa,Su, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
7/21/2023-7/23/2023
Offsite Paint the Chesapeake on Tilghman Island $250.00
Walt Bartman
F,Sa,Su, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
8/18/2023-8/20/2023
Vian Borchert is an established and renowned award-winning expressionist artist. V. Borchert has exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions within the USA and internationally for decades. Vian is a graduate and “Notable Alumni” from the Corcoran College of Art and Design George Washington University, Washington, DC. Vian considers her expressionistic and abstracted art as visual poems. Vian Borchert’s art has been on exhibit in prestigious places such as the United Nations General Assembly’s Public Lobby Gallery, NYC, and in “Art Basel Miami Beach” Spectrum Miami, 1stdibs Design Center in Chelsea, NYC and the LA Art Show. Vian‘s art is in private collections worldwide, embassies, and museums. Borchert exhibits in major world cities such as NYC, LA, DC, Miami, London, Rome and Berlin. Moreover, Vian Borchert has been attributed in revolutionizing the current contemporary abstract expressionist art movement, and a number of art styles originated from her unique vision such as the abstracted woods since the artist resides by the woods and the waterfall painterly blue canvases. Most notably her love for the big blue and her signature use of the color blue in her abstract paintings created new waves of abstraction in the art world. In this V. Borchert has singularly attributed immensely to the advancement of abstract art in the world. Borchert believes in the importance of a proper art education and advises her students and emerging artists not to take shortcuts nor copy other artists’ work and stay truthful to themselves. Borchert stresses on the need for budding artists to learn the basics of drawing and painting. Thus, Borchert teaches classes in Beginning to Intermediate Drawing and Painting at the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo Park. V. Borchert’s art has been featured in numerous well regarded publications such as The Washington Post, The Flux Review, Influential People magazine, Artpil, Elan magazine, Vie magazine, The Miami Art Scene, NPR’s Art Beat and others. Borchert has juried art exhibitions in the Washington DC area. Furthermore, Vian has extensive knowledge in art history, and she has worked in major museums such as the National Gallery of Art and the The Phillips Collection museum in Washington DC. Borchert teaches fine art classes in painting and drawing at the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo Park.
Learn more about Vian Borchert as she discusses her work. Click Here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Beginning and Intermediate Watercolor $210
Vian Borchert
M, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
1/23/2023-3/6/2023
Onsite Beginning and Intermediate Drawing $210
Vian Borchert
F, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
1/27/2023-3/3/2023
SPRING
Onsite Beginning and Intermediate Watercolor $225.00
Vian Borchert
M, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/24/2023-6/5/2023
Onsite Beginning and Intermediate Drawing $225.00
Vian Borchert
F, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/28/2023-6/2/2023
Floral Mist
Website: www.vianborchert.com
Influenced by her Aunt Mary, Holly’s passion for the arts increased throughout her early years. Later having received a BFA from Eastern Michigan University, she dove into the high-tech design world of the television industry. In recent years she has focused on the creative expression of painting.
Her painting “Autumn on the Potomac” won “Best in Show” 26th Annual Members Show, Friends of the Yellow Barn Studio. In 2021, the 27th Annual Members Show awarded her a “Honorable Mention” for the painting “Sunflower Time.”
Holly’s painting-inspired travels have taken her to Santorini, Greece and Italy’s Amalfi Coast, where she joined plein air workshops sponsored by the Yellow Barn. She constantly finds interesting places to paint around the DMV, and is always intent on finding that spark of beauty and atmosphere that awaits.
Learn more about Holly Buehler as she discusses her work. Click Here
Here is another interview with Holly
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Color Theory and Color Mixing $270
Holly Buehler
Su, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
1/15/2023-3/5/2023
SPRING
Onsite Painting Colors of Spring en Plein Air $240.00
Holly Buehler
Sa, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/15/2023-6/3/2023
Onsite Color Theory and Color Mixing $240.00
Holly Buehler
Su, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/16/2023-6/4/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Color Theory and Color Mixing $150.00
Holly Buehler
Su, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
6/11/2023-7/9/2023
Onsite Dog Days of Summer Painting Workshop $120.00
Holly Buehler
M,Tu,W , 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
8/7/2023-8/9/2023
Onsite Color Theory and Color Mixing $120.00
Holly Buehler
Su, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
8/6/2023-8/27/2023
Experience as a woodworker, carpenter, stonewall builder, and representational painter have influenced Tory Cowles’ abstract paintings. She’s interested in the conversations that happen between juxtaposed colors, textures and shapes; of spontaneity versus structure; and of boldness versus subtlety.
Represented at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA and Longview Gallery, 9th St. NW DC. Cowles also shows widely in the mid-Atlantic region.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite/Virtual Abstract Expressionist Painting- Acrylic $330
Tory Cowles
Tu, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
1/17/2023-3/21/2023
SPRING
Onsite/Virtual Abstract Expressionist Painting- Acrylic $330.00
Tory Cowles
Tu, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
5/16/2023-7/11/2023
email: torycowles@comcast.net
Denise has been teaching art at classes and camps for four years at Glen Echo. Long involved with design and art education, she now focuses on children’s art at the Crystal Pool Studio and a teen drawing and painting class through the Yellow Barn. Adult, and Adult/children’s classes include collage, drawing and painting in deconstruct books, and block printmaking. In addition, Denise works part-time at Little Echoes and Playgroup in the Park.
Before moving to the DC area, Denise taught 11 years as a senior high school art teacher in Plano, Texas. Classes included beginning & intermediate art, art appreciation, AP Art History, and AP 3D Design. While there she also served as a reader for the ETS in Art History. While a teacher, Denise earned a MA in Humanities, Visual Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas.
Prior to this time, Denise earned a MLA at the University of Pennsylvania and worked for 15 years as a Landscape Architect in Philadelphia; Columbus, Ohio; and Plano, Texas.
In her own work, Denise has been painting for several years both representational and abstractly. She has been involved with shows through the Art League at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, with the League of Reston Artists, and at local venues in Loudoun County, VA.
Learn more about Denise Dittmar as she discusses her work.Click Here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Drawing and Painting – Face and Form $120
Denise Dittmar
Th, 6:00 PM-8:30 PM
1/26/2023-2/16/2023
Onsite Emerging Young Artists (Ages 13-16) $210
Denise Dittmar
Su, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/22/2023-3/19/2023
SPRING
Offsite Canal Plein Air Workshop- Teens & Adults $55.00
Denise Dittmar
Su, 2:00 PM-5:30 PM
3/26/2023-3/26/2023
Onsite Emerging Young Artists – Teens $150.00
Denise Dittmar
Su, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/16/2023-5/14/2023
Offsite Great Falls Tavern Plein Air Workshop – Teens & Adults $55.00
Denise Dittmar
Su, 2:00 PM-5:30 PM
5/21/2023-5/21/2023
Gavin Glakas
Gavin Glakas grew up in Bethesda, MD, and started drawing about the time he started walking. He studied with Walt Bartman in high school and at Washington University in St. Louis and the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
After graduation, Glakas spent a year and a half working on Capitol Hill as a Senate staffer. He had planned to go to law school, but after an eight-month illness culminating in the removal of a tumor from his lung at the age of 24, he decided to pursue his lifelong ambition of a career as an artist.
Glakas began showing his work in galleries almost immediately and spent six years studying portrait and figure painting on Thursdays and Fridays.
His paintings hang in the permanent collections of the United States Capitol, the Virginia State Capitol, universities, museums and numerous other collections both public and private.
Glakas is represented by Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA and Charleston, SC, Palm Avenue Fine Art in Sarasota, FL, and Hubert Gallery in New York.
He has won numerous honors for his artwork, including awards from the Portrait Society of America and the Butler Institute of American Art. His paintings have been featured on NBC News and in The Washington Post, as well as American Art Collector, Plein Air, International Artist, The American Scholar, Art Business News, The Strand and Elan magazines, and exhibited at mu- seums and galleries throughout the country.
Glakas teaches painting and drawing at the Yellow Barn Studio and lives in McLean, VA, with his wife and two sons.
Learn more about Gavin as he discusses his paintings. Click Here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting $318
Gavin Glakas
W, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
1/25/2023-3/29/2023
Onsite Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting $318
Gavin Glakas
Sa, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
1/21/2023-3/25/2023
SPRING
Onsite Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting $318.00
Gavin Glakas
Sa, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/22/2023-6/17/2023
Onsite Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting $318.00
Gavin Glakas
Sa, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/22/2023-6/17/2023
Onsite Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting $318.00
Gavin Glakas
W, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/26/2023-6/14/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting $215.00
Gavin Glakas
Sa, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
6/24/2023-7/29/2023
Onsite Portrait and Figure Drawing and Painting $215.00
Gavin Glakas
W, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
6/28/2023-8/2/2023
A former political cartoonist and musician, Mark Giaimo enrolled in his first oil painting class in 2004. Within two years he was accepted into the Post-Baccalaureate Graduate Program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore where he completed a semester before striking out on his own. His paintings are represented by Calloway Fine Art & Consultants in Georgetown, DC.
Learn more about Mark as he discusses his paintings. Click here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER
Onsite Introduction to Portrait Painting From Life $295
Mark Giaimo
Th, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
1/19/2023-3/9/2023
Onsite Drawing and Painting $270
Mark Giaimo
Su, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
1/22/2023-3/19/2023
SPRING
Onsite The Art of Caricature $290.00
Mark Giaimo
Tu, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/25/2023-6/13/2023
Onsite Narrative Illustration $290.00
Mark Giaimo
W, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/14/2023
Onsite Introduction to Portrait Painting From Life $295.00
Mark Giaimo
Th, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/20/2023-6/15/2023
Onsite Still Life Painting Simplified $290.00
Mark Giaimo
F, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/14/2023-6/9/2023
Onsite Drawing and Painting $270.00
Mark Giaimo
Su, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/23/2023-6/18/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Narrative Illustration $145.00
Mark Giaimo
W, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
7/5/2023-7/26/2023
Onsite Introduction to Portrait Painting From Life $295.00
Mark Giaimo
Th, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
7/6/2023-8/31/2023
Onsite Still Life Painting Simplified $145.00
Mark Giaimo
F, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
7/7/2023-7/28/2023
Onsite The Art of Caricature $145.00
Mark Giaimo
Tu, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
7/11/2023-8/1/2023
Onsite Narrative Illustration $145.00
Mark Giaimo
W, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
8/2/2023-8/23/2023
Onsite The Art of Caricature $145.00
Mark Giaimo
Tu, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
8/8/2023-8/29/2023
Erich Keel served as The Kreeger Museum’s Head of Education for fourteen years. Before joining the Museum in 1999, Keel was involved in the arts in Washington, DC and New York: he volunteered and freelanced at Corcoran Gallery of Art and worked for the Museum of Modern Art.
Keel was born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland, where he began his university studies in English, Philosophy, and Art History. He earned a Ph.D. with a dissertation on the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty from Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Keel is the author of “David Lloyd Kreeger: A Collector’s Journey,” in The Kreeger Museum (2009) and co-author of “Linking Art and Geography Education: A Museum Model for Elementary and Middle Schools” in Journal for Cultural Research in Art Education, volume 31 (2014). Since leaving The Kreeger Museum in 2013, Keel has been lecturing and leading art tours in Europe. He taught five courses for OLLI at AU on 19th and 20th -century art; gave talks at the Swiss and Austrian Embassies; and presented a lecture on the art of Max Beckmann, John Heartfield, and Felix Nussbaum to Smithsonian Associates. On separate art history tours, Keel led groups on visits in Germany (2013) Andalusia (2014), France (2015) and the UK (2016). His most recent international trip focused on museums in Prague, Vienna and Krakow, including the Art History Museum of Vienna, where Keel gave a gallery talk on Flemish painting.
Photo by Gary Peck, taken in the Tate Britain.
Current and Upcoming Classes
Fauvism—First “Insurgency” in Twentieth-Century Art $150
Erich Keel
Tu, 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
1/17/2023-2/28/2023
An artist since early childhood, Margaret Lashley enjoys creating art with an eye for accuracy and a feel for the essence of her subject. She loves to spend time immersed in nature, but also enjoys traveling to locations such as Paris, Italy, Japan, and Thailand to study art, museums, and architecture. She graduated from the College of William and Mary, where she studied figure drawing, color theory, oil and acrylic. Her approach to teaching is focused on helping students have fun while mastering the foundations of good drawing skills.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Everyday Drawing $270
Margaret Lashley
Tu, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
1/17/2023-3/14/2023
Virtual Drawing Perspective $270
Margaret Lashley
Tu, 1:30 PM-4:00 PM
1/17/2023-3/14/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Drawing Perspective $150.00
Margaret Lashley
W, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/5/2023-8/2/2023
Virtual Crosshatching $150.00
Margaret Lashley
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/5/2023-8/2/2023
Email: lashleymargaret@gmail.com
Bonny Lundy is a contemporary impressionist interested in color, shape, movement, atmosphere and light.
Bonny Lundy is one of the most highly regarded watercolorists in the Washington DC area. She owns Pleasant View Studio in Brookeville, Maryland where she creates expressive watercolor and oil landscapes, florals, figure and still life. Lundy’s connection with nature is conveyed through emotional color, flowing, impressionistic brushstrokes, movement of elegant shapes, and brilliant color energy. Her paintings are included in private and the public collections of Geico, US Council on Aging, Sandy Spring Museum, Nat Institute of Health, Glen Echo Nat Park. Lundy’s Art has been featured in The Washington Post, Artworks This Week, Frederick Magazine and the Olney Gazette.
Lundy has BFA in painting from Lake Erie College. She exhibits at The Artists Gallery and with Countryside Artisans Tour. Her award winning artwork is included in juried competitions and solo shows. Lundy has taught drawing and watercolor for thirty-five years at Glen Echo National Park in Bethesda, Maryland. Other teaching venues have included Smithsonian Associates, Frederick Community College, the Delaplaine Art Center, and Artists and Makers Studios. A juror, she offers popular art talks, demonstrations and critiques. Lundy coordinates and leads plein air painting workshops to Honduras, Italy, France, Sedona, Santa Fe, Costa Rica, Lewes, Delaware, the Shenandoah Mountains and many other beautiful locations.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Flowing Watercolor $320
Bonny Lundy
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/18/2023-3/22/2023
SPRING
Onsite Flowing Watercolor $300.00
Bonny Lundy
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/21/2023
Onsite Flowing Watercolor for Beginners $300.00
Bonny Lundy
W, 4:30 PM-6:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/21/2023
Onsite Flowing Flowers Workshop $100.00
Bonny Lundy
Su, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
4/30/2023-4/30/2023
Penny grew up in NW Washington DC, where she currently lives. She studied at University of Massachusetts Boston, earning her Bachelor’s of English Literature. After many different career trajectories, she finally found her way back to her “forever” passion…creating art.
The pandemic was a catalyst for this change, and enabled her to spend many hours honing her craft and studying. She has been painting in oils since the age of 15, and it is her preferred medium. 10 years ago, she discovered digital art, and has since incorporated that into her field of study.
Penny has had gallery shows as well as solo shows, and continues to explore both digital and traditional art.
Learn more about Penny as she discusses her work. Click here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Introduction to Digital Painting with Procreate $300
Penny Mause
Th, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
1/19/2023-3/30/2023
Virtual Digital Painting Workshop $120
Penny Mause
Sa, Su, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
2/25/2023-2/26/2023
SPRING
Virtual Introduction to Digital Painting with Procreate $270.00
Penny Mause
M, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
4/17/2023-6/19/2023
Virtual Intermediate Digital Painting with Procreate $300.00
Penny Mause
W, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/21/2023
Onsite Everyday Drawing $270.00
Penny Mause
Th, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/20/2023-6/15/2023
Virtual Wallpaper and Textile Design in Procreate $300.00
Penny Mause
F, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
4/21/2023-6/23/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Introduction to Digital Painting with Procreate $240.00
Penny Mause
M, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
7/3/2023-8/21/2023
Virtual Intermediate Digital Painting with Procreate $240.00
Penny Mause
W, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
7/5/2023-8/23/2023
Virtual Wallpaper and Textile Design in Procreate $120.00
Penny Mause
F, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
7/7/2023-7/28/2023
Onsite Everyday Drawing $120.00
Penny Mause
Tu, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/11/2023-8/8/2023
Onsite Everyday Drawing $150.00
Penny Mause
Th, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/13/2023-8/10/2023
Email: pmause2@gmail.com
Mead has been exploring all disciplines of art for over 20 years and has been a college instructor for nearly a decade. In teaching, he focuses on simple techniques with wide-ranging applications. In class, the focus is on personalized feedback based on each student’s goals and skill level. He enjoys switching media from pencil to ink to digital while exploring both fine art and storyboarding.
Current and Upcoming Classes
Onsite Landscape Painting and Drawing 270
Mead McLean
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/23/2023-3/20/2023
SPRING
Onsite Learn to Draw Stylized Figures $300.00
Mead McLean
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/17/2023-6/26/2023
Onsite Atmospheric Cityscapes $300.00
Mead McLean
M, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/17/2023-6/26/2023
Onsite Composition and Storytelling $300.00
Mead McLean
W, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/21/2023
Onsite Learn the Art of Drypoint Printmaking $300.00
Mead McLean
F, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/21/2023-6/23/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Composition and Storytelling $120.00
Mead McLean
W, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/5/2023-7/26/2023
Onsite Atmospheric Cityscapes$120.00
Mead McLean
F, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/7/2023-7/28/2023
Onsite Learn the Art of Drypoint Printmaking$120.00
Mead McLean
M, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
7/10/2023-7/31/2023
Onsite Learn to Draw Stylized Figures$120.00
Mead McLean
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/10/2023-7/31/2023
Onsite Studying Composition from the Masters Workshop $175.00
Mead McLean
Sa,Su, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
7/15/2023-7/16/2023
Onsite Drawing for the Absolute Beginner$120.00
Mead McLean
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
8/7/2023-8/28/2023
Onsite Intermediate Drawing$120.00
Mead McLean
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
8/9/2023-8/30/2023
Onsite Planning Your Projects Workshop $90.00
Mead McLean
Sa, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
8/12/2023-8/12/2023
meadmclean@gmail.com
www.meadmclean.com
Gita Mirshahi earned her BFA in drawing & sculpture from Trinity college and her MFA from George Washington University. She works in a wide range of two and three dimensional media – from drawing to print making and painting, to creating sculpture, ceramics or jewelry. Gita has focused of late on spontaneous, free flowing, vibrant paintings, which, though based on the physical world are near calligraphic abstractions. Each painting reflects her own personal brand of ‘automatic’ rhythms & shapes. She has taught many disciplines and her hallmark is helping the student develop their own vision and techniques. My joy in making art is launching in to uncharted waters, looking for the unexpected approach to the world around us & with in . This means taking risks, investing yourself in the process of discovery, and watching your subject reveal it self. See yourself in different light as you learn to paint with no inhibitions, under Gita’s generous tutelage.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Acrylic Painting $295
Gita Mirshahi
Th, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
1/19/2023-3/9/2023
Virtual Acrylic Painting $295
Gita Mirshahi
Sa, 4:30 PM-7:00 PM
1/21/2023-3/11/2023
SPRING
Virtual Acrylic Painting $295.00
Gita Mirshahi
Th, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/20/2023-6/8/2023
Virtual Acrylic Painting $295.00
Gita Mirshahi
Sa, 4:30 PM-7:00 PM
4/22/2023-6/10/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Acrylic Painting $295.00
Gita Mirshahi
Th , 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
7/6/2023-8/24/2023
Virtual Acrylic Painting $295.00
Gita Mirshahi
Sa, 4:30 PM-7:00 PM
7/8/2023-8/26/2023
Ally Morgan is a visual artist and art teacher working in Montgomery County, Maryland. In 2010 she received her BFA in painting from Salisbury University and she received her MFA in drawing and painting from Arizona State University in 2014.
Ally is a mixed media artist, focusing on watercolors, pens, and colored pencils. Inspired by the lectures of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, she endeavors to explore the identity of the “Animal Other” as well as her own personal relationship with them. Derrida suggested that “the animal looks at us and we are naked before it… thinking perhaps starts here.” This statement about seeing the animal and the animal confronting our gaze of them has continued to lead Ally’s artistic investigation.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Ballpoint Pen Drawing $240
Ally Morgan
W, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
1/18/2023-3/8/2023
Virtual Mixed Media Approach to Painting Animals $270
Ally Morgan
Th, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
1/19/2023-3/16/2023
Virtual Pet Portrait Workshop $95
Ally Morgan
Sa, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
2/18/2023-2/18/2023
SPRING
Virtual Mixed Media Approach to Painting Animals $270.00
Ally Morgan
Th, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
4/20/2023-6/15/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Gansai Watercolor Painting $270.00
Ally Morgan
W, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
7/19/2023-9/13/2023
Virtual Mixed Media Approach to Painting Animals $270.00
Ally Morgan
Th, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
7/20/2023-9/14/2023
Website: www.allymorganart.com
Katherine Nelson is an artist, educator, and juror based in the D.C./Baltimore region. She received a BS in Art Education from Skidmore College in 1985 and a Master of Arts in Drawing from SUNY Albany in 1990. Katherine, who was born in The Hague, has experienced many landscapes and cultures living in Europe, the Middle East and on both the East and West Coasts of the United States.
She has been featured in numerous solo, juried, and invitational exhibits in the USA and Europe including The US Embassy “HUB” in Brussels, Belgium, The Palais de Tokyo Museum, Paris, France, The National Cathedral in Washington, DC, The Albany Institute of History and Art, The Schenectady Museum, ABC’s “Extreme Home Makeover” as well TV ads, CD, journal, and magazine covers. Nelson’s velvety, linear, and textural charcoal drawings explore meaningful connections deep within the current Grain Revival and depict agricultural slopes, saddles, and swales as hallowed space through views of heritage farm architecture.
Katherine has also been teaching art at all levels for the past 25 years. Katherine currently offers online teaching and has taught regional workshops in the DMV since 2014.
Artist Statement:
I travel to fascinating locations exploring fields, historic farms, grain stories, and dramatic lands. My approach to field research is just as much about seeking out adventures and making discoveries, as it is about creating art that will have a meaningful impact on the viewer. I draw primarily in charcoal constructing an interplay of lines, textures, and contrasts while simultaneously shining a light on the new grain revival that is weaving a tapestry of connections between people and places.
My drawings are metaphors for the human prospect. ‘Harvests’ to me are exhibitions that depict the land as hallowed space through views of heritage farm architecture and landscape vistas. Implicit rural values relate to the natural environment, hard work, and community, and are relevant anywhere.
I love charcoal because it is fluid, forgiving, mysterious and strong. I draw by layering dark velvety values and build textures that are obtained through an additive and subtractive process using a variety of charcoals, pastels, blenders, brushes and erasers. Recently, I began a new explorative journey in color pencils alongside my charcoal works creating a series of small colorful drawings. Embracing my immediate surroundings and drawing from ephemeral moments I strive create a sense of place within the artful viewpoint found in the every day close to home.
Current and Upcoming Classes
SPRING
Virtual Dry Media Workshop: Combining Dynamic Atmosphere and Abstraction $150.00
Katherine Nelson
Sa, 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
4/15/2023-4/15/2023
Virtual Dynamic Landscape Charcoals From Photos $200.00
Katherine Nelson
W, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM
4/19/2023-5/10/2023
contact: katherinenelsonart@yahoo.com
Honorata has spent extensive time in major European museums which have influenced her latest projects. In 2020 she created her 30 person performance on stage on the theme of the color “R.E.D”, and her short film “Vendemmia,” translating a painting into movement in the picturesque vineyards of Montepulciano, Italy. In 2018 she filmed “Lady And The Ermine” inside in National Museum in Krakow; a story which literally brings Da Vinci’s famous painting to life. As a lover of museums, recent visits include National Gallery and British Museum in London, world premiere of Treasures of Tutankhamun at Saatchi Museum, and extensive study and visits to Uffizi Museum in Florence, which is the basis for her most recent project.
Honorata describes her upcoming class in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajs49ojoBoo
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Learn from a Ballerina: How to Paint Movement Mini-Session $75
Honorata Perzanowska
Sa, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
2/11/2023-2/18/2023
Virtual Learn from a Ballerina: How to Paint Movement $150
Honorata Perzanowska
Su, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
2/12/2023-3/5/2023
SPRING
Virtual Learn from a Ballerina: How to Paint Movement $150.00
Honorata Perzanowska
Su, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
4/16/2023-5/7/2023
Virtual Learn from a Ballerina: How to Paint Movement $150.00
Honorata Perzanowska
Su, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
5/14/2023-6/4/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Learn from a Ballerina: How to Paint Movement $150.00
Honorata Perzanowska
Su, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
7/2/2023-7/23/2023
Virtual Learn from a Ballerina: How to Paint Movement $150.00
Honorata Perzanowska
Su, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
8/6/2023-8/27/2023
Monica Pittman is a local painter and interior designer; she has studied and painted all her life and brings her life long enthusiasm for art and design to the classroom.
Monica has found the Yellow Barn to be a haven for artistic pursuits.
‘I believe that it’s fundamental that artists should gather and learn together. We will learn and develop fundamental principles of color and design thru creative exercises that will set the foundation for your unique painting style. All levels are welcome.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite/Virtual Sunflower Painting Workshop $150
Monica Pittman
Sa, Su, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
2/11/2023-2/12/2023
SPRING
Onsite Color, Composition and Design $240.00
Monica Pittman
Tu, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/6/2023
Onsite Yoga and Art Workshop $80.00
Monica Pittman
Sa, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
4/15/2023-4/15/2023
SUMMER
Offsite Lockhouse Painting Workshop $160.00
Monica Pittman
Sa,Su, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
6/10/2023-6/11/2023
Dipali Rabadiya’s interest in art was developed when she was very young. She has been painting and drawing since she was a child. She pursued her BFA at Seton Hill University and she has studied with Qiang Huang, Jennifer McChristian, and Kevin Macpherson.
Dipali most recently taught at Fred Roger’s Latrobe Art Center. She paints from observation and her painting style is Alla Prima, creating small still life and landscape paintings. She believes that painting small and often improves the artistic skill and encourages an individual to be more creative their field.
Dipali was born and raised in Gujarat, India and now lives at McLean, VA with her husband and two sons.
Please visit Dipali’s YouTube Channel to learn more about her teaching style and artwork.
Learn more about Dipali as she discusses her work. Click here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Alla Prima Oil Painting $240
Dipali Rabadiya
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/24/2023-3/14/2023
Onsite Still Life and Landscape Oil Painting $300
Dipali Rabadiya
Th, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
1/19/2023-3/23/2023
SPRING
Offsite Plein Air Sketching $295.00
Dipali Rabadiya
M, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM
4/17/2023-6/5/2023
Onsite Alla Prima Still Life and Landscape Oil Painting $280.00
Dipali Rabadiya
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/6/2023
Onsite Beginner Alla Prima Oil Painting $280.00
Dipali Rabadiya
Th, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/20/2023-6/8/2023
Onsite Oil Painting Workshop $235.00
Dipali Rabadiya
M,Tu,W, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM
4/10/2023-4/12/2023
Onsite Oil Painting Bootcamp Workshop $180.00
Dipali Rabadiya
Sa, Su, 12:30 PM-4:30 PM
4/22/2023-4/23/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Oil Painting Bootcamp Workshop $180.00
Dipali Rabadiya
Sa,Su, 12:30 PM-4:30 PM
6/3/2023-6/4/2023
Onsite Still Life and Landscape Oil Painting $280.00
Dipali Rabadiya
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/11/2023-8/29/2023
email: dipalirabadiyaarts@
An artist since the day he was born, Leo Ramos prefers oil painting and drawing from life. Leo grew up in Kensington, MD where he currently resides but spends part of the year in Colombia, South America where he was born. He started painting in high school under the tutelage of Walt Bartman III and then became an apprentice and assistant for Walt Bartman II at the Yellow Barn Studio where he learned the value of craftsmanship and hard work. He has received several awards including Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the Arts, Congressional Scholar in the Arts, and first and second place award at the Kensington paint the town plein air event. His work can be found at Gallery 322 in Frederick Maryland.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Still Life Painting $325
Leo Ramos
M, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
1/16/2023-3/13/2023
Onsite Figure Painting from a Live Model $325
Leo Ramos
M, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
1/16/2023-3/13/2023
Onsite Painting from Photos and Sketches $325
Leo Ramos
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/18/2023-3/15/2023
Onsite Basic Principles of Drawing $325
Leo Ramos
Th, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
1/19/2023-3/16/2023
SPRING
Onsite Still Life Painting $300.00
Leo Ramos
M, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/17/2023-6/19/2023
Onsite Painting from Photos $300.00
Leo Ramos
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/14/2023
Onsite Basic Principles of Drawing $300.00
Leo Ramos
Th, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/20/2023-6/15/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Still Life Painting $300.00
Leo Ramos
M, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
7/3/2023-8/28/2023
Onsite Painting from Photos $300.00
Leo Ramos
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/5/2023-8/30/2023
Onsite Basic Principles of Drawing $300.00
Leo Ramos
Th, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
7/6/2023-8/31/2023
Email:la_art@icloud.com
Renee Sandell grew up in New York City where she attended the High School of Music and Art and the City College of New York.. Sandell holds a MA and PhD in Art Education from The Ohio State University.
Renee Sandell’s Visual Fitness 4 All®is the result of her over 45 years of art teaching experience in classrooms and museums and includes creating art and presenting at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico. Renee is founding director of the expeditionary, museum-based SummerVision DC Program, which she designed and has delivered for the National Art Education Association (NAEA) for a decade since 2010. Previously Founder/Director/Professor of Graduate Art Education at George Mason University (2004-2014) and Professor of Art Education at Maryland Institute College of Art (1990-2003), in 1980, Sandell was a Fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts. Co-author of two books on gender issues and a new book Real Lives 21 about contemporary art educators, Sandell has published numerous articles, book chapters and art curricula.
Winner of the 2019 Lowenfeld Award, Sandell was recognized as 2015-2016 Distinguished Lecturer in Art Education at Miami University and 2013 NAEA National Art Educator, Renee has received numerous awards for her leadership and scholarship on her Form+Theme+Context (FTC)® and her Marking & Mapping®, an accessible form of visual meaning-making. Sandell’s Visual Fitness 4 All® for Engaging Creativity and Insight® workshops are designed to nurture envisioning skills for individuals within professional development programs, organizations, health spas, businesses, and other venues. She teaches for Smithsonian Associates Studio Arts.
Renee’s artistic installations of ink and water-media markings explore the human condition in time, space, and place. Her Silk Meditations and recent work entitled Virtue Maps reveal positive energies contained in human virtues, reflecting sensory states of consciousness through spiritual expression. Immersed in universal gratitude, these works become meditative mindscapes of visual affirmations needed in our turbulent times.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Visual Fitness Workouts for Seeing More $160
Renee Sandell
W, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
1/18/2023-2/8/2023
Virtual Visual Fitness Workouts for Seeing More $160
Renee Sandell
W, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
2/22/2023-3/15/2023
Virtual Visual Fitness: Intensive Creativity Workout Workshop $90
Renee Sandell
Sa, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
2/25/2023-2/25/2023
SPRING
Virtual Visual Fitness: Intensive Creativity Workout Workshop $90.00
Renee Sandell
Sa, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
4/22/2023-4/22/2023
Virtual Visual Fitness: Workouts for Seeing More Mini Session $160.00
Renee Sandell
W, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
5/3/2023-5/24/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Visual Fitness: Intensive Creativity Workout Workshop $90.00
Renee Sandell
Sa, 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
6/24/2023-6/24/2023
Virtual Visual Fitness: Workouts for Seeing More Mini Session $160.00
Renee Sandell
W, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
7/5/2023-7/26/2023
Ann teaches painting and drawing with an emphasis on composition, perceptual observation, color and surface. Her philosophy is simple – the visual arts should be visually compelling, pulling you in and making you see! Ann has a BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Virginia, an MFA in Painting from American University, and had a year of postgraduate study at the Fine Arts Academy in Munich, Germany. Awards include a Fulbright Scholarship in Painting, the Annette Kade Fine Arts Fellowship, the David Lloyd Kreeger Award, and the Art Prize from UVA. Ann is an Adjunct Professor of Art at Georgetown University, and has taught extensively at area schools including AU, Maryland, NVCC and the Smithsonian.
“Art is a constant seeking, a honing of sensibilities, a push and pull to find the right line, color, tone and texture within a dynamic composition.”
Learn more about Ann as she discusses her work. Click here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER
Virtual Approaching Abstract: Color & Texture $315
Ann Schlesinger
Tu, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
1/17/2023-3/21/2023
Virtual Approaching Abstract: Watercolor, Gouache & Collage $315
Ann Schlesinger
W, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
1/18/2023-3/22/2023
Virtual Landscape: Color and Light $315
Ann Schlesinger
Th, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
1/19/2023-3/23/2023
Onsite Joy of Painting $315
Ann Schlesinger
F, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
1/20/2023-3/24/2023
Onsite Approaching Abstract in Painting $315
Ann Schlesinger
F, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/20/2023-3/24/2023
SPRING
Virtual Approaching Abstract: Color & Texture $295.00
Ann Schlesinger
Tu, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/6/2023
Virtual Landscape: Color and Light $295.00
Ann Schlesinger
Th, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/20/2023-6/8/2023
Onsite Joy of Painting $295.00
Ann Schlesinger
F, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/21/2023-6/9/2023
Onsite Friday Painter’s Studio $295.00
Ann Schlesinger
F, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/21/2023-6/9/2023
Email: arschlesingerart@gmail.com
Michael Shibley is a fine artist whose watercolors and oils focus on light, shape and color in the natural and man-made landscape. His work can be found in both public and private collections in the Washington area and across the country. His use of color attracts attention at local art galleries and group shows. His colorful urban landscapes depicting people participating in urban life have proved increasingly popular and have resulted in numerous commissioned works. Michael offers personal tutoring in watercolor as well as larger classes. He is currently an art instructor at the Yellow Barn Studio at Glen Echo Park. His class, ‘Finding Your Watercolor Style’ offers students painting techniques and approaches for application to the student’s preferred subject matter. Michael is also an active participant in the Washington, D.C., area art community including the Montgomery Art Association (MAA) serving two years as president and three years as the coordinator of their 125 artist ‘Paint the Town’ Show; the Takoma Watercolor Group; the Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, and is a Friend of the Yellow Barn. He has also served as a juror at local art exhibitions.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Exploring Watercolor $325
Michael Shibley
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/23/2023-3/27/2023
SPRING
Virtual Exploring Watercolor $305.00
Michael Shibley
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/17/2023-5/29/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Exploring Watercolor $305.00
Michael Shibley
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/10/2023-8/21/2023
Samantha Stover grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Art History from McGill University and a Masters in Fine Art, cum laude, from the New York Academy of Art.
Throughout her academic studies in art, she focused her concentration on Drawing Techniques: historical methods and materials as well as figure-drawing exclusively from life. After an almost 10-year hiatus from fine art, she returned to the discipline with a renewed interest in the figure and the power of creative expression. Drawing also on her previous experience as a theatrical costume designer, she is influenced by the performative and communicative capacity of the human form and spirit. Her current work employs the practices of her traditional training to capture fleeting observations, emotions and memories.
Her work has been shown in galleries in Maryland, New York, and Berlin. Since moving back to the USA from Europe, she has been a Teaching Assistant in New York and an organizer of online art events.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Pastel Painting $325
Samantha Stover
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/16/2023-3/13/2023
Onsite Dynamic Figure Drawing: The Expressive Gesture $305
Samantha Stover
F, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
1/20/2023-3/24/2023
Onsite Pastel Figure Drawing: Sketch to Finish $305
Samantha Stover
F, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/20/2023-3/24/2023
SPRING
Onsite Pastel Painting $325.00
Samantha Stover
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/17/2023-6/19/2023
Onsite Mythological Figure Drawing and Painting $275.00
Samantha Stover
M, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
4/17/2023-6/19/2023
Onsite Dynamic Figure Drawing: The Expressive Gesture $275.00
Samantha Stover
F, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
4/21/2023-6/16/2023
Onsite Pastel Figure Drawing: Sketch to Finish $275.00
Samantha Stover
F, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/21/2023-6/16/2023
email: stover.sami@gmail.com
Maud Taber-Thomas is an oil painter specializing in portraits and scenes inspired by literature and history. She earned her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. She completed her undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College and Oxford University, where she studied Victorian Literature as well as the fine arts. Maud has had paintings in such New York City galleries as Sloan Fine Art, Flowers Gallery, and Dacia Gallery, and has also shown at the Scope Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland. In 2011, Maud was awarded a residency by the Terra Foundation in Giverny, France, where she completed a series of plein air paintings of the town where Monet had his studio. She works and teaches in the Washington, DC area.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Contemplative Flower Painting $320
Maud Taber-Thomas
M, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
2/6/2023-3/27/2023
Virtual Painting From Photos $320
Maud Taber-Thomas
W, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
2/8/2023-3/29/2023
Onsite Creating a Likeness: Portrait Painting Techniques $320
Maud Taber-Thomas
W, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
2/8/2023-3/29/2023
SPRING
Virtual Painting from Photos Monthly Seminar Workshop $35.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/24/2023-4/24/2023
Onsite Flower Painting Demystified Workshop $178.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
Sa, Su, 12:30 PM-4:30 PM
5/6/2023-5/7/2023
Virtual Portrait Painting from Photos Mini-Session $225.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M,Tu,W,Th,F, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
5/8/2023-5/12/2023
Virtual Painting from Photos Monthly Seminar Workshop $35.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
5/29/2023-5/29/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Charcoal Drawing from Photos Workshop $178.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
Sa,Su, 10:30 AM-3:30 PM
6/3/2023-6/4/2023
Onsite Mastering the Art of Color Mixing Mini-Session $225.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M,Tu,W,Th,F, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
6/26/2023-6/30/2023
Virtual Painting from Photos Monthly Seminar Workshop $35.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
6/26/2023-6/26/2023
Virtual Painting from Photos Monthly Seminar Workshop $35.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/17/2023-7/17/2023
Virtual Mastering the Art of Color Mixing Week $225.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M,Tu,W,Th,F, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
8/21/2023-8/25/2023
Virtual Painting from Photos Monthly Seminar Workshop $35.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
M, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
8/21/2023-8/21/2023
Virtual Flower Painting Demystified Workshop $178.00
Maud Taber-Thomas
Sa,Su, 12:30 PM-4:30 PM
8/26/2023-8/27/2023
Elisabeth Vismans Listens, Guides and Inspires Creative Experiences.
She was born and raised in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and started to paint after a long international career in the corporate world in Rotterdam, Paris, Sydney, Düsseldorf and Nice. She is fluent in 4 languages, an Award-Winning Visual Artist, Certified Professional Life Coach, Certified NLP Practitioner and partners with Walter Reed Medical Center for therapeutic painting. She and her family moved from Germany to the US in 2000, and settled in Howard County, MD. In 2004 she became the proverbial empty nester and started looking for a way to give meaning to her life. One morning it dawned on her that she could now follow her life long passion and so she picked up a paint brush, registered for an art class and never looked back. That felt like “coming home”.
Now that she was finally doing what she was meant to be doing, she wanted to share this amazing feeling with others who were also in search of a purpose. She became a life coach and developed her own unique coaching program with paint (visual and verbal language combined). Teaching intuitive painting was the next step and from there she evolved to teaching painting flowers, visual journaling and abstract painting. In all her classes she works with the whole (mind-body) student, because she firmly believes that every painting is a problem to solve and therefore it is important to know what goes on in your head so you can quiet the mind and be more creative.
She knows all too well how it feels to start with painting later in life, and putting yourself in a vulnerable position, and so she is well equipped to help students to get over their initial fear and connect to their own painting style. Painting with intuition and enjoying the process is a major component of her teachings. She is also passionate about empowering women to find their passion and developed a unique coaching program where paint is being used as an extra modality. She also teaches 6-week Visual Journaling classes, where feelings are being expressed in images. This is a
deep, cathartic, and meaningful process guided by the inner wisdom. (Carl Jung started his visual journal the Red Book in 1910).
Elisabeth’s expressive painting style is ever evolving, she sure likes to push the boundaries and is always embracing a challenge. She draws her inspiration from nature and everything around her. Her medium of choice is oil paint, her art work is full of color, joy, energy and can be found in many private collections in the US and abroad.
Over the years she participated in many (solo and juried) shows around the country. Her latest show was in the Yellow Barn in November 2019.
Click here to see Elisabeth Vismans discuss her work
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Paint Flowers with Imagination $295
Elisabeth Vismans
Tu, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
1/31/2023-3/21/2023
Virtual Play With Abstraction $258
Elisabeth Vismans
Sa, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
2/4/2023-3/25/2023
SPRING
Onsite Intuitive Painting Workshop $95.00
Elisabeth Vismans
Su, 10:00 AM-3:00 PM
4/2/2023-4/2/2023
Virtual Play With Abstraction $245.00
Elisabeth Vismans
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/25/2023-6/6/2023
Virtual Painting Flowers with Imagination $245.00
Elisabeth Vismans
Tu, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/25/2023-6/6/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Play With Abstraction – Post-War $145.00
Elisabeth Vismans
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
8/1/2023-8/22/2023
Virtual Paint Flowers with Light $145.00
Elisabeth Vismans
Tu, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
8/1/2023-8/22/2023
“I am a visual storyteller. I am here capturing infatuation before the magic escapes and showing ephemeral as part of permanence. Making aesthetic interpretation in fine art according to taste then delivering it in its most immediate and pure visual representation with attention to personal influences about sustainable aesthetic value.”
James was born in Wheaton, Maryland and now resides in rural Poolesville, MD. He attended the Corcoran School of Art, Montgomery College, and the University of Maryland.
He has developed a drawing technique with pen and ink of candid images showing public places that exemplify modern culture.
He chooses mediums depending on the subject. His paintings are of many subject matters. His art transforms the ordinary into revealing objects of interest.
James has participated in many communities’ art programs. He became President of the Montgomery Art Association after serving as Vice President.
Click here to see a video of James’s painting process and teaching philosophy.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Basic Drawing $305
James Vissari
Su, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM
1/22/2023-3/19/2023
SPRING
Onsite Learning to Draw and Paint $240.00
James Vissari
Tu, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/6/2023
Onsite Basic Drawing $240.00
James Vissari
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/6/2023
Offsite Paint Perspective en Plein Air at the C&O Canal Workshop $200.00
James Vissari
W, Th, 9:30 AM-3:00 PM
4/26/2023-4/27/2023
Offsite Paint with Passion en Plein Air on the C&O Canal Workshop $200.00
James Vissari
W, Th, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
5/24/2023-5/25/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Paint with Passion en Plein Air on the C&O Canal Workshop $200.00
James Vissari
W,Th, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
6/21/2023-6/22/2023
Onsite Color Theory $240.00
James Vissari
Sa, 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
7/8/2023-8/26/2023
Onsite Composition $240.00
James Vissari
Sa, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/8/2023-8/19/2023
Ann Wallace holds a B.A.from the University of Massachusetts, a J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School, and an L.L.M. from George Washington University School of Law. After law school, she worked as a criminal attorney for the United States Department of Justice. At the same time, she continued to pursue art as a student at the Yellow Barn Studio. From 2001 to 2013, she was a Yellow Barn Instructor teaching drawing and painting with oils, acrylics, gouache, and pastels. Thereafter, until 2019, she taught painting classes at Plaza Artists Materials in Rockville, Maryland. She is also a copyist at the National Gallery of Art.Ann paints immediately or directly— “au premier coup” (at first stroke) or “alla prima”(at first attempt). When approaching still life paintings, she believes that the selection and arrangement of objects reveal the presence of the artist. In her portraits, she attempts to go beyond the likeness and focuses on the perceived character of the individual. And, when she is out in nature, she tries to capture the essence of the place—the movement of the sky and water; the character of the rocks, land, and trees; the intensity of the colors; and the transience of the light. Ann draws inspiration from artists like James McNeill Whistler, who prefer to evoke rather than define. She believes that a painting should not serve simply to showcase the technical prowess of the painter, but instead should allow the viewer to be an integral participant in the realization of the artist’s vision. She has had numerous solo exhibits, and her award-winning paintings are in private collections throughout the country and on permanent exhibition in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Department of Justice.Watch Ann Wallace demonstrate creating a pastel painting: Click here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER
Virtual Pastel and Gouache Painting Mini-Session $120
Ann Wallace
Tu, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
1/17/2023-2/7/2023
Virtual Exploring Pastels Mini-Session $120
Ann Wallace
W, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
1/18/2023-2/8/2023
SPRING
Virtual Palette Knife Painting Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
M, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/17/2023-5/8/2023
Virtual Pastel and Gouache Painting Mini-Session $120.00
Ann Wallace
Tu, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/18/2023-5/9/2023
Virtual Exploring Pastels Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
W, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/19/2023-5/10/2023
Virtual Pastel Portraits Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
Th, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/20/2023-5/11/2023
Virtual Art for Your Floor Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
F, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
4/21/2023-5/12/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Palette Knife Painting Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
M, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
7/10/2023-7/31/2023
Virtual Pastel and Gouache Painting Mini-Session $120.00
Ann Wallace
Tu, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
7/11/2023-8/1/2023
Virtual Exploring Pastels Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
W, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
7/12/2023-8/2/2023
Virtual Pastel Portraits Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
Th, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
7/13/2023-8/3/2023
Virtual Art for Your Floor Mini-Class $120.00
Ann Wallace
F, 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
7/14/2023-8/4/2023
Eric Westbrook is a painter, illustrator, and art instructor living and working in the Washington DC area. Current and former teaching venues include The Yellow Barn at Glen Echo, VisArts in Rockville, and the Women’s Club of Chevy Chase.
Eric’s landscape and portrait paintings are frequently exhibited in solo and group shows, and are held in public and private collections. He is an experienced judge of art shows and competitions.
His illustration work has appeared in the publications of prominent corporate, government, and editorial clients nationwide.
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Portrait Painting $325
Eric Westbrook
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/17/2023-3/14/2023
Virtual Landscape Painting from Photos and Other Sources $325
Eric Westbrook
W, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
1/18/2023-3/15/2023
Onsite Figure Drawing $325
Eric Westbrook
Sa, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
1/21/2023-3/18/2023
SPRING
Virtual Portrait Painting $305.00
Eric Westbrook
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/18/2023-6/13/2023
Virtual Landscape Painting from Photos and Other Sources $325.00
Eric Westbrook
W, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
4/19/2023-6/14/2023
Onsite Figure Drawing $325.00
Eric Westbrook
Sa, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
4/22/2023-6/17/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Finish Your Painting $325.00
Eric Westbrook
Tu, 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
7/11/2023-8/29/2023
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard received her B.A. from the University of Maryland in Studio Art and studied Fine Art and Illustration at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Her paintings have been exhibited widely on the East Coast. She has illustrated for magazines and books and worked as a courtroom artist. Marcie is an instructor at Glen Echo Park, the Yellow Barn Studio and The Smithsonian. She is also a teaching artist in the community, working with children and adults including individuals with special needs and seniors with dementia.
Marcie and her husband, David Hubbard, are collaborating on a series of books of David’s short stories and poems and her encaustic paintings, which have inspired David’s writing. Poems From Within is the first book in the series.
Artist’s statement
I have always loved to draw. Like most artists, I look and take in what’s around me. For the past six years, I have been working in encaustic (hot wax) painting. Painting in encaustic highlights the lines and tonal quality of my charcoal drawings of the figure and nature. Up close, I see the texture on the surface, further emphasized by oilstick on the drawn lines and brushstrokes. Adding collage elements gives more texture, dimension and depth to the paintings. My drawing is an appreciation of the life, personality, spirit and beauty of humanity and nature.
Learn more about Marcie Wolf Hubbard as she discusses her work. Click Here
Click Here to see examples of Marcie’s work (no sound)
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Onsite Encaustic & Mixed Media Painting Workshop $165
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
Su, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM
2/12/2023-2/12/2023
SPRING
Virtual Drawing Birds & Nature $120.00
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
F, 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
4/21/2023-5/12/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Realistic Abstraction in Drawing & Painting $120.00
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
Th, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
7/6/2023-7/27/2023
Onsite Encaustic & Mixed Media Painting Workshop $170.00
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
Su, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM
7/30/2023-7/30/2023
Kimberly Yourick received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, with a major in Metalsmithing. Kim is primarily a contemporary landscape oil painter, who works in plein air. She has exhibited in many local, national, and international exhibitions. As an instructor, she intends to encourage creativity and the joy of art through painting or other forms of expression. She has been trained in many different mediums and subject matter.
Her own landscape work shifts the traditional notion of plein air painting by encouraging color intensity that reaches beyond representational subject matter. Her intent is to engage the viewer’s senses in the highest form of color experience and to present symbolism that is associated with passage, safety, hope, happiness, and expectation that is free from cultural boundaries. Intense color vibration, and use of light becomes the focus of the work so that the viewer experiences the ecstasy, and joyfulness of a beautiful vision, which is much needed respite from daily struggles.
Her belief is that being an artist and creating art, is not limited to mastering technical skill but rather how the art transforms its audience, what story it tells, and what problem is solved. Therefore, artists and creatives live and work around us without identifying as “artists”. Their vision and work are equally as critical to the improvement of our lives. Being uplifted, feeling catharsis, and making connection to spirit is much more important than if the artist can draw or paint something that looks representational. Her hope is to help extract this type of expression from her students.
Current and Upcoming Classes
SPRING
Onsite Beginning and Intermediate Oil Painting for Teens and Adults $300.00
Kimberly Yourick
Tu, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
4/25/2023-6/27/2023
Onsite Paint en Plein Air on the Potomac River $125.00
Kimberly Yourick
Sa, Su, 4:00 PM-8:00 PM
5/27/2023-5/28/2023
SUMMER
Onsite Beginning and Intermediate Oil Painting for Teens and Adults $120.00
Kimberly Yourick
Tu, 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
8/8/2023-8/29/2023
Website: kimberlyyourickart.com
Instagram: kimberlyyourickart
Facebook: Kimberly Yourick Art
For all artists, beginner to professional, who want to add colored pencils to their arsenal. Artists will explore the amazing capabilities, uses and techniques of colored pencils through hands-on experimentation/demonstration with various types of pencils and products. Learning several blending methods and how to create a variety of textures. We will discuss surfaces and methods for image transfer. Beginning a project which can be continued and brought back to the workshop. Colored pencils are very labor intensive and can be hard on the hands, so the workshop is continued the following week, giving the participants time to go home and work further on the project, do a homework assignment. We will also learn important layering & finishing techniques. For more information, visit: LisArts.com or email Lisarts.com@gmail.com. Minimum age 14.
Lis Zadravec is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, Colored Pencil Community of Australasia and Best Loudoun artist 2018. Her award-winning narrative colored pencil artwork is internationally recognized and has been published, among other places, in the book “Draw Portraits in Colored Pencil”. Having studied oil painting and portraiture at the Corcoran School of Art, her approach to colored pencils reflects the layering technique used in the Maroger method of painting. Colored pencils lend themselves to precise detail and photo realism, Lis also aims is to make subjects look as if they were painted. Her approach is unique even among other colored pencil artists and her standards of excellence have been confirmed by many curators and jurors. She has been teaching for over 2 decades and working wish colored pencils more than 30 years. She brings experience and enthusiasm to a medium that has now caught the world’s attention.
Learn more about Lis as she discusses her work. Click Here
To watch Lis skillfully draw a dog’s eye Click Here
Current and Upcoming Classes
WINTER CLASSES
Virtual Colored Pencil Portraits $195
Lis Zadravec
W, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
2/8/2023-3/1/2023
SPRING
Virtual Colored Pencil Farm Animals Workshop $95.00
Lis Zadravec
W, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
4/19/2023-4/26/2023
Virtual Colored Pencil Nature Drawings $145.00
Lis Zadravec — Yellow Barn
W, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
5/10/2023-5/24/2023
SUMMER
Virtual Drawing Water in Colored Pencil $145.00
Lis Zadravec
W, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
6/7/2023-6/21/2023
Virtual Draw from Your Photos in Colored Pencils Workshop $95.00
Lis Zadravec
W, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
7/19/2023-7/26/2023
Virtual Local Wildlife in Colored Pencils Workshop $95.00
Lis Zadravec
W, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM
8/9/2023-8/16/2023