Arts & Crafts

This workshop will help you learn Photoshop© techniques and skills, and apply them immediately to your personal photography. Using classroom lecture and interactive student participation, the course will cover workflow, file types, optimizing images, layers, tools, panoramics, color balance, black and white, and archiving. Extensive handouts will lead students step-by-step so that skills can be practiced at home.  We use Adobe Photoshop Elements for our instructional labs in class.  This is a live online class using ZOOM.

Makeup class, if needed, 11/17/22.

Perspective is not intuitive. It must be learned. To make your buildings look realistic and dimensional, drawing in perspective is a must. This class will combine drawing in perspective to make your drawing look accurate with painting your buildings with details and shadows. Paint watercolors of buildings such as lighthouses, your home, a landmark in your town or travels.  This is an in-person course held at the Moore Community Center, an accessible facility with an elevator.   

No class 02/21/23.  Makeup class, if needed, 03/14/23.

Drawing Perspective Supply List

Mary Laury served as the founding Executive Director of Schoodic Arts for All, an award winning non-profit organization celebrating the arts and culture in Downeast Maine for over 20 years. The botanical subjects and dynamic nature of Maine are Mary's passions. An experienced teacher, she has taught painting and drawing in classrooms and in the field for many programs throughout her career.

Paint flower portraits realistically. You will paint pictures of flowers in detail, but more painterly than a scientific illustration. We won’t count veins, but we will count petals. Painting flowers is a wonderful exercise in observation. This is an online class using ZOOM.

Makeup class, if needed, 11/29/22.

Mary Laury served as the founding Executive Director of Schoodic Arts for All, an award winning non-profit organization celebrating the arts and culture in Downeast Maine for over 20 years. The botanical subjects and dynamic nature of Maine are Mary's passions. An experienced teacher, she has taught painting and drawing in classrooms and in the field for many programs throughout her career.

You can draw! Anyone can learn to draw. This 4-week class will teach you how to draw what you see. This class will give you a jump start to drawing accurately and give you confidence to draw for pleasure or as a base for your painting. Get ready for a whole world of seeing details that you have never noticed before!  This is an online course using ZOOM. 

No class 02/21/23.  Makeup class, if needed 03/14/23.

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Mary Laury served as the founding Executive Director of Schoodic Arts for All, an award winning non-profit organization celebrating the arts and culture in Downeast Maine for over 20 years. The botanical subjects and dynamic nature of Maine are Mary's passions. An experienced teacher, she has taught painting and drawing in classrooms and in the field for many programs throughout her career.