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The Fine Art of Colored Pencils Classes are all Online! Offered through the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo, now you can take my class from home. Or anywhere! Learn the amazing capabilities of colored pencils and how to use them to their highest potential to create realism and a variety of textures as we turn a humble medium into masterful fine art in different weekly projects. Demonstrations, experimentation and critique included. All classes are recorded for you to re-watch. You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. For all artists who want to add colored pencils to their arsenal. Supply list/info: Use the buttons below for the list or kit at Plaza Arts or email: lisarts.com@gmail.com Minimum age 16.

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Registration Open NOW for Fall/Winter 2025-26 ONLINE COLORED PENCIL workshops.

Online Colored Pencil Workshops

January 21-February 4

Colored Pencil Wildlife Techniques

Learn amazing techniques used by wildlife artists to achieve realism in fur, feathers, and animal features, structure and the dazzling colors of animals of the world, while capturing them in a narrative composition.. You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. Critique & demos included. Classes recorded for you to re-watch. All levels. More info: lisarts.com@gmail.com. Minimum age 16. Price: $145

February 25-March 11

Colored Pencil Landscape Techniques

Landscapes are a necessity, as backgrounds or the subject itself. Learn to portray textures, depth and how to compose your landscape with colored pencils! With techniques you can even use en plein air.

You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. Critique & demos included. Classes recorded for you to re-watch. All levels. More info: lisarts.com@gmail.com. Minimum age 16. Price: $145

April 15-29

Colored Pencil Cat & Dogs

Draw cats and dogs in colored pencils, for fun, for profit or for a gift! Achieve realistic fur using professional techniques, while improving your style in capturing animal eyes, features and structure. You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. Critique & demos included. Classes are recorded for you to re-watch. All levels. More info: lisarts.com@gmail.com. Minimum age 16. Price: $145

May 13 & 20

Colored Pencil on Black

This is the Real Fun! Your colored pencil drawings will have the Wow! factor you get when drawing on a black surface. Your subjects will truly Pop! achieving amazing realism and brilliant color. You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. Critique & demos included. Class recorded for you to re-watch.

Price: $95

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My basic materials list is available as an instructor kit through Plaza Artist Materials in Bethesda. These are the supplies that I use in my personal work because they're the best, the easiest and offer the best results for my technique. I strive to help my students improve quickly and have a much easier time with colored pencils.

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What People Are Saying About Lisa's Online Classes....

"From one colored pencil artist to another, your technique and variety of subjects along with the ability to teach is exceptional." -Judy V.

More About the Yellow Barn Studio

The Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery is the drawing and painting residency at Glen Echo Park. Resident painter and instructor Walt Bartman’s goal is to provide a place where those interested in drawing and painting can have the opportunity to take classes with exceptional artists/ teachers, collaborate with other artists, and display and sell their work in the Yellow Barn Gallery.

The Yellow Barn Studio has one of the largest painting programs in the Washington D.C. area. Yearly, over two thousand students study at the Yellow Barn Studio. The Studio offers a variety of classes in drawing, watercolor, pastel, printmaking, art history, oil and acrylic for students at all levels representing a diversity of philosophies and approaches by the Yellow Barn Studio Faculty. The Yellow Barn Gallery hosts weekly emerging individual and group art exhibits year-round. The Friends of the Yellow Barn Studio, a non-profit organization, provides an array of programs, exhibits, and national speakers for Yellow Barn members.