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Art Workshops
When you take a workshop with Cheap Joe's, you're not just taking a painting class; you're participating in a life-enhancing experience! Whether you take one of our online art classes or visit us for an in-person art workshop in the beautiful mountains of Boone, NC, you'll have access to the best workshop instructors in the business! Whatever your skill level or painting style, there are many different in-depth painting workshops available to help sharpen your skills and broaden your knowledge.
For our in-person workshops, you'll enjoy individual workstations, an HD camera/large screen TV monitor for demonstrations, discounts on lodging and art supplies in our outlet store, and a vacation in the magical Blue Ridge Mountains. If you can't make it in person, we invite you to take one of our premier online art workshops from the comfort of your home studio. Participate in live, interactive classes from anywhere worldwide with internet service, and/or watch the recorded video later. You'll interact with some of the most popular artist instructors through your computer screen and gain access to the class recordings for further study. You'll interact live with the instructor, receive individual guidance, critique, ask questions, and share work and ideas with fellow students and the instructor.
Want to learn more? Browse Frequently Asked Questions, Workshop Terms and Conditions, and Instructor Art Supply Lists.
Browse below for our current online and in-person art classes. Check back often as more art workshops are added frequently. Spaces are limited, and registration is on a first-come-first-served basis, so don't procrastinate! Important information and a supply list are available by clicking on the "Downloads" tab on the individual art workshop pages.
Until your workshop begins, check out Cheap Joe's Art Stuff - YouTube for free mini art lessons and art supply demos.
Description of Skill Levels:
Level 1: Beginner - Covers the very basic techniques of the medium at a slower pace and offers plenty of individual help for all students. No prior experience in the medium is expected of the student.
Level 2: Beginner-Intermediate - Reviews basic techniques for beginners as needed and offers practice exercises at an average pace to assist in gaining confidence and experience with the medium. Assistance is given to all.
Level 3: Intermediate - Assumes the student already has a basic knowledge of the medium. Average pace with individual help for all students.
Level 4: Intermediate-Advanced - Average pace with individual help for those who need it, yet challenging for the more experienced or advanced student.
Level 5: Advanced - Fast-paced and challenging exercises with little teacher assistance.
Visit Cheap Joe's Global Workshopper and choose from hundreds of art classes with your favorite art instructors from around the world.
For our in-person workshops, you'll enjoy individual workstations, an HD camera/large screen TV monitor for demonstrations, discounts on lodging and art supplies in our outlet store, and a vacation in the magical Blue Ridge Mountains. If you can't make it in person, we invite you to take one of our premier online art workshops from the comfort of your home studio. Participate in live, interactive classes from anywhere worldwide with internet service, and/or watch the recorded video later. You'll interact with some of the most popular artist instructors through your computer screen and gain access to the class recordings for further study. You'll interact live with the instructor, receive individual guidance, critique, ask questions, and share work and ideas with fellow students and the instructor.
Want to learn more? Browse Frequently Asked Questions, Workshop Terms and Conditions, and Instructor Art Supply Lists.
Browse below for our current online and in-person art classes. Check back often as more art workshops are added frequently. Spaces are limited, and registration is on a first-come-first-served basis, so don't procrastinate! Important information and a supply list are available by clicking on the "Downloads" tab on the individual art workshop pages.
Until your workshop begins, check out Cheap Joe's Art Stuff - YouTube for free mini art lessons and art supply demos.
Description of Skill Levels:
Level 1: Beginner - Covers the very basic techniques of the medium at a slower pace and offers plenty of individual help for all students. No prior experience in the medium is expected of the student.
Level 2: Beginner-Intermediate - Reviews basic techniques for beginners as needed and offers practice exercises at an average pace to assist in gaining confidence and experience with the medium. Assistance is given to all.
Level 3: Intermediate - Assumes the student already has a basic knowledge of the medium. Average pace with individual help for all students.
Level 4: Intermediate-Advanced - Average pace with individual help for those who need it, yet challenging for the more experienced or advanced student.
Level 5: Advanced - Fast-paced and challenging exercises with little teacher assistance.
Visit Cheap Joe's Global Workshopper and choose from hundreds of art classes with your favorite art instructors from around the world.
Art Workshop FAQsQ: How can I learn art?
A: The best way to learn any form of art is to take a class! We offer many online and in-person workshops with a selection of the world’s most accomplished instructors.
Q: What is taught in art class?
A: A variety of things are taught in art classes, from very basic techniques to practice exercises. You can learn about oil painting, watercolor, acrylics, sketching, and so much more in art classes.
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Leslie Fehling In-Person Art Workshop: Find Your Flow: Sketching with Intention, Confidence, and Joy - April 22-26, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: We've all felt it, those rare moments when we're fully immersed and focused on what we're doing. How do we make those moments a regular part of our creative practice? Let Leslie Fehling show you how in this 5-day workshop, filled with practical ways to make sketching more fulfilling, satisfying, and fun.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is March 24, 2024.$900.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Linda Kemp Online Workshop: Simplified Faces & Figures, Negative Painting Style - May 1-3, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: In this interactive online workshop with Linda Kemp, whimsical, simplified figures & faces will emerge as we portray the forms & features using negative shape-painting techniques in watercolor.
HURRY-ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER- Deadline is April 23$265.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Anne Abgott Online Workshop: Memories and Marshall's - May 20-21, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: Learn from the comfort of your own home or studio in this live & interactive class through Zoom with Anne Abgott! There is a lot going on in this image, so we are going to take 2 days (4 hours each day) to complete the painting.
Register before it fills! - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is May 12.$210.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Tom Lynch Online Workshop: Specialty Techniques: Same Landscape 4 Ways & Trees - May 22-23, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: If you want your watercolor paintings to stand out from the rest and come alive with drama, this informative workshop will give you that outcome. The focus of this live interactive specialty technique workshop is on painting “Parts” of the same landscape in several different, new, and creative ways.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is May 7, 2024.$125.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Jean Pederson In-Person Art Workshop: Mixed Media Flowers Pushing Petals! - May 27-31, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: Create fun grounds using a variety of acrylic products and collages to support your next still-life masterpiece. This class will also lead you through simplifying your subject over the week, resulting in abstract explorations.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is April 27, 2024.$995.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Anne Abgott Online Workshop: White on White - June 3, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: This workshop is about taking a very boring, uninspiring image and adding reflective colors, warm & cool colors, and some negative painting techniques to bring the painting to life! We are going to take those gray shadows and make them glow by mingling the colors.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is May 27, 2024.$105.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Lana Cease In-Person Art Workshop: Reflections in Hyperrealism - June 3-7, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: Award-winning master watercolorist Lana Cease will guide you as you explore the depths of highly realistic paintings in watercolor. You will learn the skills that you need to create work that will leave people wondering how you created photographic quality work, and you'll paint your subject with confidence as a professional watercolorist.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is May 3, 2024.$900.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Iain Stewart In-Person Art Workshop: Painting Land, Sea, and Sky in Watercolor - June 10-13, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: It’s quite easy to get bogged down in detail, and for me, the perfect tool is the sketchbook. We will work both in our books and on traditional watercolor paper, covering a range of subject matter and scenes. I believe that a workshop without the worry of success typically leads just there.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is May 10, 2024.$950.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Kristy Kutch In-Person Art Workshop: Lush and Lively Colored Pencil - June 17-21, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: "Lush and Lively Colored Pencil" with Kristy Kutch will feature the many dimensions of this excitingly vivid, versatile, and non-toxic medium. With plenty of studio demonstrations, personal attention, and access to a generous supply of sample materials, workshop students will explore a wide range of watercolor pencils.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is May 17, 2024.$850.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Tom Lynch Online Workshop: Painting a Mountain Landscape - June 19-20, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: In this new 2-part online evening workshop with Master Artist, Tom Lynch, you will learn & practice new watercolor techniques and the principles for a finished work of art. His format is great for those who want to learn in a step-by-step manner.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is June 4, 2024.$125.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Teresa Kirk In-Person Art Workshop: The Beauty of the Mark - June 24-28, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: In this exciting workshop, students will do exercises that will help them to make their own unique marks as a surprise element for their work. You will build upon that mark-making process through negative painting, color mixing, and design formats.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is May 24, 2024.$800.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Alexis Lavine Online Workshop: Make Color Work for You! - July 10-12, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: Are you tired of wasting paint … mixing and re-mixing your colors, over and over again, and never getting quite what you want? If so, then this workshop is for you!
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is July 2, 2024.$265.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Laurin McCracken In-Person Art Workshop: Realism in Watercolor - Painting Silver and Glass - July 15-19, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: This is a workshop for artists who are interested in learning to paint in the realistic style of the Dutch and Flemish still life painters of the 16 and 17th centuries. Participants will learn how to see, draw, and paint objects in realistic detail.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is June 15, 2024.$1,300.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Tom Lynch Online Workshop: Specialty Techniques: Changing How You Think & See & "Art Words" - July 17-18, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: If you want your watercolor paintings to stand out from the rest and come alive with drama, this informative workshop will give you that outcome. The focus of this live interactive specialty technique workshop is on painting “Parts” of the same landscape in several different, new, and creative ways.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is July 2, 2024.$125.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Vladislav Yeliseyev In-Person Art Workshop: Mastering Loose Brushwork in Watercolor - July 22-25, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: This workshop offers a comprehensive exploration of watercolor painting techniques with a focus on loose brushwork.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is June 22, 2024.$950.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
David R. Smith Online Workshop: Fresh & Exciting Watercolors with David R. Smith - July 23, 25, and 27, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: Join David on a Watercolor Journey, learning the most valuable watercolor concepts and techniques. Participants will have access to reference photos, drawing guides, typed outlines, and step-by-step instruction through all stages of the painting process.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is July 8, 2024.$315.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Ratindra Das In-Person Art Workshop: Watercolor With an Eye for Design - July 29-August 2, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: In this class you will learn to explore shapes and their relationship and placement on paper, explore lights and darks, and color in design. You will need reference materials, sketches, and photographs.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is June 29, 2024.$950.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Alicia Farris In-Person Art Workshop: Expressive Watercolor: Faces, Features and Figures - August 5-9, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: Alicia Farris will share her studies and will demonstrate elements of facial features and proportions. Using Alicia's characteristic loose and colorful style, you will learn techniques to portray the personality and emotion of the human subject.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is July 5, 2024.$800.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Karen Noll Schaaf In-Person Art Workshop: Paint Watercolor Portraits with Confidence - August 12-16, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: Painting the human likeness can be the ultimate challenge for an artist. Join me in a week-long workshop that breaks down the complexity of the face into a series of smaller, achievable learning exercises.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is July 12, 2024.$995.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Robin Poteet In-Person Art Workshop: Master the Masters in Watercolor - August 19-22, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: This workshop has been a huge hit with those ready to expand their knowledge of watercolor. Through guided copying, you will learn invaluable tips and methods on drawing, color choices, making rich darks, composition, subject editing, and brushwork.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is July 19, 2024.$850.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Tom Lynch Online Workshop: Specialty Techniques: Paint the Shadow First - August 21-22, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: Tom has developed a new 2-part workshop that takes the student on a step-by-step process to creating a finished painting. Students will practice and learn new watercolor techniques, the principles for a finished painting, and much more.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is August 6, 2024.$125.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Sterling Edwards In-Person Art Workshop: Creative and Expressive Watercolor Abstracts - August 26-30, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: That's right; I said abstracts, the big A word. Have you ever considered branching out and doing something different? Well, here's your chance. Join renowned artist Sterling Edwards and delve into the world of abstract painting.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is July 25, 2024.$1,100.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Alexis Lavine Online Workshop: Take the Vignette Challenge - May 15-17, 2024
2024 Online Art Workshop: In this workshop with Alexis Lavine, you will create a vignette image, which ties into the edges of the paper, beautifully interlocking with those untouched white corners.
SOLD OUTJoin us in July for a different class$265.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied. -
Bob Burridge In-Person Art Workshop: Abstract Acrylic Painting & Collage - May 20-24, 2024
2024 In-Person Art Workshop: Always wanted to do mixed media abstract painting but don’t know where to begin? Experience demos, techniques, basic formulas, compositions, and color techniques to create more meaningful abstracts. Imagine painting with your fingers, paper towels, and brushes.
Registration Deadline - Hurry! Deadline to sign up is April 20, 2024.$900.00Best Price - This is the lowest price offered for an item. Additional discounts cannot be applied.