Learn Colored Pencils with
IN-DEPTH, THEMED WORKSHOPS
Meet Once-a-Week for class and get access to a recording of the Class to keep forever!
Classes have themes so you can learn the professional techniques for each subject.
ONLINE, Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00pm
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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 email: lisarts.com@gmail.com Minimum age 16.
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Registration Open NOW for ALL 2026-27 ONLINE COLORED PENCIL workshops through March 2027.
Online Colored Pencil Workshops
September 17 & 24
Thursdays 4-6pm et
Colored Pencil Basics
Have you ever wanted to know what you can do with colored pencils? This is the place to start: a comprehensive introduction to all the possibilities and properties of colored pencils. Have fun and try out this super versatile medium. Critique & demos included. Classes recorded for you to re-watch. All levels.
Price: $95
October 14 - November 4
Wednesdays 5-7pm et
Colored Pencil Portraits
Learn to create colored pencil portraits that almost seem painted with the modern-day media of colored pencils from an award-winning colored pencil portrait artist. Addressing structure, features, achieving different skin tones & textures. You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. Critique & demos included. Classes recorded for you to re-watch.
Price: $195
November 5 & 12
Thursdays 4-6pm et
Colored Pencil Night Scenes
Get the drama of the Landscape at night. Learn to compose your landscape using dramatic nighttime lighting with colored pencils techniques you can use working from photos or take with you on site. You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. Critique & demos included. Classes recorded for you to re-watch. All levels.
Price: $95
December 2 & 9
Wednesdays 5-7pm et
Colored Pencil Still Life
Capturing treasured objects, a variety of surfaces and composing memorabilia into a narrative that speaks to the viewer. And doing so with colored pencils, a drawing medium that seems to create paintings. You will benefit whether beginner or advanced. Critique & demos included. Classes recorded for you to re-watch. All levels.
Price: $95
January 20 - February 3
Wednesdays 5-7pm et
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. Class recorded for you to re-watch. All levels.
Price: $145
February 24 - March 10
Wednesdays 5-7pm et
Colored Pencil Landscape Techniques
Landscapes can be the background or the subject but they are necessary. Learn to portray textures, depth and compose your landscape with colored pencils 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.
Price: $145
Resources:
My basic materials list is available as an instructor kit through BLICK 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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If you are new to Online classes, you can view a brief tutorial on using Zoom here. It's easy.
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.