ADULT CLASSES
Mondays 10-12
Think you’re not an artist? This art sampler class is for beginners. This class will dabble in a little bit of everything: Painting, drawing, printmaking, papier mache, pastels, & sculpture.
Saturday's 2-5
Explore a variety of handbuilding techniques and make an array of ceramic forms both functional and sculptural. Create vases, plates, jars, bowls and teapots. Also, learn texture and finishing techniques such as slip trailing, inlay, scraffitto, mishima...This class is open to all skill levels.
Lab fee $15.00
Wednesday's 4-6
This course will bring family members together to experience the exciting world of clay and build basic skills and understanding of ceramic forming techniques. Hand building and wheel thowing techniques will be explored, creating functional and sculptural forms. Give it a try! Expect to have a great time tapping into your family creative roots.
Lab fee $10.00
Monday's 6:30-9:30
This is a great way to begin learning the ancient art of using the potter’s wheel. Students develop basic throwing skills while making vases, mugs, jars and bowls from stoneware clay. Glaze and decorate! Tuition covers glaze materials and kiln firing. Anticipate additional fees for clay and some tools .
Lab fee $15.00
Wednesday's 6:00-8:30
Learn the different facets of ceramics. Work with commercial molds and create your own. Learn to pinch, coil and slab various shapes and sculptures. Finish your artwork with chalking, drybrushing, underglazes and glazes.
Lab fee $10.00
Tuesday's 6:00-8:30
This class will introduce you to wheel throwing for the beginning-level ceramicist and an introduction to new forms and shapes.This class involves slab building, and coil . We will increase your knowledge and skills in ceramics preparing you for advanced classes. Introduction to RAKU.
Lab fee $15.00
Tuition covers kiln firings and materials. Anticipate additional fees for tools and clay.
Monday's 6:00-9:00
This class builds upon skills already achieved from Ceramics I and is designed to increase your abilities to throw larger forms, make lids that fit, pitcher spouts that pour, handles, bowls and altered forms and bowls. Ceramics surface decoration and development through the use of slips and glazing techniques will be covered. Students will also be introduced to loading and firing Raku, oxidation, and reduction kilns. This is a wonderful class for those ready to take their throwing skills to the next level.
Lab fee $15.00
Tuition covers kiln firings and materials. Anticipate additional fees for tools and clay.
Wednesday's 6:00-8:30
Come wallow in the mud. This class will introduce basic sizing, cutting, and decorating techniques that will allow each student to personalize their own hand-built ceramic tile. We will cover processes as relief, texture, and glazing design. This class will also explore the realm of tile mosaics. Each student will have the opportunity to design and create custom mosaics.
Lab fee $10.00
Saturday afternoons from 1-6, January 30 and March 27.
Students who want to experience the raku firing process but don’t want or know how to make their own vessels. We provide an opportunity for you to have fun glazing and take two already made small raku pieces home with you! If you are a potter,bring your own bisqued ware to be raku fired. Join our raku workshop and pay just $48. Additional pieces will be made available to glaze and fire for $10 each.Class includes glaze and slip techniques that are unique to Raku.
Tuesday's 6:00-8:30
Start with a form you will create in class, build up the clay surface with stamps and sprigged additions and mould small objects to adhere to the surface. Learn how to make and use colored clay and experiment with self-glazing clay called Egyptian paste. Metallic and pearlescent lustres will also be used in finishing.
Lab fee $30.00
Tuesday 9:30-12
Learn to see like an artist sees. With pencil in hand, your drawing skills will improve in just a few lessons. If you have never tried this process, you owe it to yourself. All you need is a pencil and a sketchbook. This class is for beginners.
Monday 6:00-8:30
This drawing class will focus on a variety of subjects including perspective, figure, shading, and foreshortening. Students need an 18 x 24 newsprint pad and a drawing pad in a size of their choice. Live models will be used.
Lab fee: $25
Monday's 3:00-5:30
This is a 6 week session that runs December 18 to March 1st. We will be drawing with several dry media, students will learn proportion, shading and work from photos as well as live models.
Thursday's 10-12
This is a second level drawing class. We will be using soft colored pencils. Techniques will be explored and students will learn how to layer their project. Bring a set of Prismacolors or something similar.
PAINTING
Wednesday 12:30-2:30pm
Express your feeling through paint, using color, line and shape. This class requires a willingness to paint from the soul!
Monday's 3:00-5:30
This is a 6 week session from March 8th to April 12th. Celebrate color, line, shape & composition! Students will develop a sense of color harmony by observing and applying lessons from nature and the studio environment. Some drawing skill required.
Cost: $115.00
Wednesday's 10:00-12:30
Learn the basics and intricacies of working with oil paints. At the first class there will be a discussion of paints, brushes and painting surfaces used for the rest of the session.
Thursday's 6:00-8:30
Come and enjoy the fun of painting with watercolors! We will experiment with wet in wet, washes and dry brush. Learn about paper, brushes, color mixing and design. We will also explore the use of watercolor pencils and crayons.
Wednesday's 3:30-5:30
Create hand dyed fabrics using wax and dyes. Colors are applied one by one starting with the lightest and going to the darkest. Bring your own design. (Flat images are easier than 3 dimensional) For beginners and experienced alike.
Lab fee: $15.00
Monday's 6:00-9:00
Beginning January 18 & 25, February15 & 22, and March 8 & 12. Saturday workshops will begin April 3rd from 10-4 .Join this fast-paced workshop. Students will get anintroduction to glass, glass safety, learn the basics of cutting & breaking glass and discuss the technical aspects of fusing and slumping. Fee includes instructions, use of tools, firing, and enough glass to complete each project. Fired projects will be available the week after class. Please no No Open ToeShoes. Cost is $125 for each 6 hour session class. Directions to studio will be given at registration..
Tuesday's 6:00pm-8:30pm
from February 8th – May 4th. Explore the properties of non-ferrous metals (silver and copper) and how to manipulate and form these metals into functional/wearable art. We will explore soldering, sawing, hammering and stone setting techniques. No experience necessary.
Lab Fee: $15.00
Saturday's 10:00-12:00
beginning February 20 through April 17th. Learn the basics of photograpy, including aperture (f-stop), depth of field, white balance, compostition, aspect ratios for printing and more!
Cost: $150.00
Tuesday 9:00-1:00
Beginning through advanced stone sculpting. As a beginner you will be introduced to the world of stone sculpture with limestone. You will be taught to conceptualize your piece & create a clay maquette. You will be taught basic hand tool principles and applications. We will also cover basic anatomy and proportioning . For advanced students, air will be available for pneumatic tools.
Lab Fee $20.00
Wednesday's 6:00-8:30 or Saturday Mornings 10:00-12:30
Already know how to weld? Learn to design and create small and large metal sculptures for outdoors and gardens. This class will use gas, arc and MIG welding techniques. Bring a welding hood, safety glasses, long sleeve cotton shirt, and work boots. Wear blue jeans without holes.
Lab fee $25
TECHNICAL WELDING
Monday 6:00-8:30 or Thursday 6:00-8:30
Students will learn: Gas welding and cutting of steel and brass, stick welding, and MIG welding.
***Students will need to bring a welding hood, safety glasses and wear work boots, long sleeve cotton shirt, and blue jeans without holes.
Lab Fee $25
Monday 7:00-10:00pm (12-15 wks)
Location: Boerne, TX
This class will involve utilizing basic welding techniques such as oxy/acetylene, standard arc and some MIG and TIG welding. Class will also consist of seven basic techniques in metal-smithing.
**Students will need to bring safety goggles, #5 cutting goggles, medium to thick leather gloves, wear boots, 100% cotton long-sleeve shirt, and blue jeans without holes.
Tuition $325
*Prerequisite: This class is only open to students who have taken a previous class at Inspire Fine Art Center.
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