CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS FOR PAINTERS:

new classes forming for late summer and fall 2026! check back soon!

CRITIQUE GROUP, FALL 2026 NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!

class meets Friday Mornings, every other week:

10AM-12:30 PM PACIFIC TIME:

10/9, 10/23, 11/6, 11/20, 12/4, 12/18

Class meets for 2.5 hours every other week. Class is live, and is recorded, there is a 24/7 live forum to share thoughts and work with peers and classmates.

Class size is limited to ten painters to ensure enough in depth time for each artist in every meeting. Between sessions, artists are encouraged to share and post as much as they like in the all hours online forum. encouragement, thoughts and feedback from the group are always available there regardless of when the next class is...

all media and all sorts of visual art practice welcome -- and anything that is on your mind vis a vis art or your own studio practice. the space is what we, collectively, make of it!

A descripition of the class follows below, please scroll down if you’d like to learn more.

enroll at the link below!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/critique-group-fall-2026-tickets-1996456352694?aff=oddtdtcreator

critique group: a class that meets online every two weeks, and is dedicated to critique and discussion of ongoing work. 

Any and all drawn or painted work in any media is welcome — we talk about it all , the studio, craft, philosophy, articulating ideas, refining execution, making decisions, testing responses, and finally an attempt to gain fresh eyes and critical distance —not something we always want WHILE we are painting. 

Conviction can be, as Diebenkorn put it, ‘a valuable delusion’.

Of course talking about painting is, as Thelonious Monk put it, ‘like dancing about architecture’, all the same, we can significantly clarify our ideas with the right conversations. 

Often other painters understand best, and often they have helpful observations. At a minimum a little solidarity after a hard days work is good for morale.

It can be great to have a supportive and thoughtful group of peers to discuss your work with, and that can be hard to find.

The group draws artists from all walks of life, and from a wide area geographically, always national, sometimes international. 

 Enrollment is limited to 10 painters maximum to ensure that there’s plenty of time for a deep dive with each participant. It has been so gratifying to host these groups for five years or so now, often it is hard to find elevated conversation about one’s work, even just to find time to reflect, much less find an ideal or even thoughtful and receptive viewer…and of course to find such fresh eyes while something is in progress! 

The group is not a hothouse of fancy grad-school language, nor are we painting kittens and sailboats and balls of string. 

We are just a small group of dedicated painters, working away at it, with what time we have. And discussing it all. Hope you can join us.

Class is recorded, and there is a 24/7 online forum, if you’re awake in the middle of the night pondering a painting or related matters.

I’ll also be announcing dates shortly for a fall studio class, “Once More with Feeling”. 

Both classes begin in September.