Classes | Townsend Atelier

Silk Painting | Claire Vassort

Exploration of Drawing for Beginners: instructor: Thomas Caleb Goggans

Getting the Big Picture: Painting Large Landscape in the Studio | instructed by Brett Weaver

Painting the Still Life in Oils | instructed by Mia Bergeron (evening session)

Painting the Still Life in Oils | instructed by Mia Bergeron (daytime session)

Introduction to Figurative Modeling | instructed by Elizabeth Rogers

5 Day Figure Painting Workshop with Casey Baugh

The Artist’s Toolkit | Marketing Intensive for Working Artists instructor: Tom Birmingham

Vintage Vessels : Handmade Antiqued Boxes with Kari McKnight Holbrook

Handmade Stamped & Stenciled Journals with Kari McKnight Holbrook

Natural Object Still Life Painting | instructor: Alia El Bermani

Portrait Sculpture Workshop | Instructed by Elizabeth Rogers

Advanced Watercolor | Durinda Cheek

Beginning Oil Painting | Durinda Cheek

Introduction to Figure Drawing

Life Drawing | Open Studio

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Art Classes

Classes & Events Calendar

February 25 & 26 | 2012

Mondays , March 5-April 16 6-9 p.m. (skip April 2)

Wednesday evenings, March 21-May 7 (skip April 4) 6-9 p.m.

Tuesdays, March 6-April 3 6-9 p.m.

February 22-April 4 (skip March 14)

Thursdays, March 22-May 3 (skip April 5)

March 12-16 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

April 16 & 17 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 28 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Sunday, April 30 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

June 8, 9, & 10

Saturday, June 2 & Sunday, June 3 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

February 27, March 5, 19, April 2, 9, 23 1:00-4:00 p.m.

February 28, March 6, 20, April 3, 10 & 24 9:00 a.m.-12 noon

Wednesday evenings February 1-March 7 | 6-8 p.m.

Ongoing, Thursday evenings & most Sunday afternoons

Whether you are a beginner or a professional artist, Townsend Atelier is a place where you will be allowed to learn, to experiment and to grow. We are dedicated to providing quality instruction in a wide variety of media to those who wish to advance their talents and interest in visual art. Taught by professional artists and art educators, we offer instruction in painting, drawing, sculpture, print making, mixed media, and a weekly open figure drawing studio. Our facility is located in the heart of the burgeoning Southside art district in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For students traveling from out of town, we are conveniently located near a variety of accommodations and dining options.

Pre-registration is required for all classes. You may register on line (link) or by phone toll-free 1-877-903-1488 or 423-266-2712.

Gift certificates for class tuition are available. Contact us for details.

Classes to view

Come experience the beauty of silk painting firsthand in a two-day workshop. You will learn the basic techniques of silk painting and create practice samples and two wearable scarves.

No experience is necessary for this class, which will expound on foundational concepts and application of drawing.

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In this six week class, Brett will take you step by step through the process he uses to take a landscape from preliminary studies to finished painting ready for the frame.

We will be exploring the visual elements such as drawing, values, color, edges, and composition, while working on a still- life

This course is a follow up to OIL PAINTING BASICS, however, all students are welcome! We will be exploring the visual elements such as drawing, values, color, edges, and composition, while working on a still- life.

This course is designed to introduce beginners to the practice of modeling the figure in clay, one of the primary traditions in the history of sculpture. A live model will be posed and observed as students model a clay sculpture during each weekly session.

Dusk by Casey Baugh | photo courtesy of Casey Baugh

Learn Baugh’s method of figure and portrait painting in a 5-day master workshop. The workshop will focus on creating a figure painting from the early stages of set up to the finishing strokes in both indoor and outdoor settings

Hit the bullseye in marketing your work. You need a whole new set of skills to bring your work to market today. Interactive websites, social media, and email marketing offer an unparallelled opportunity for the working artist. This two-day intensive gives you up-to-date marketing skills and techniques. It will show you how to turn your your fans into patrons and your likes into sales.

Enjoy polymer clay in its finest hour by creating a one-of-a-kind box! Delight in creating lovely faux-aged vessels to store the most precious of trinkets.

This richly patterned journals pages explode with color and visual depth. The binding technique is especially for pages to lie flat when opened. Students will use stencils and stamps in a unique layering technique to create our signatures and covers.

Students will be encouraged to pick items that will enable them to develop their own personal narratives or meanings within these still life paintings. This course will cover the essentials of oil painting from proper surface preparation to color mixing, with a primarily earth tone palette.

This class will concentrate on a study of the head and its major features: eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Students will model a life size portrait busts in clay from the model. The student will gain an understanding of the form and structure of the head, its major planes and volumes, underlying skull and musculature and proportion of its features to the whole.

Time to kick your paintings up a notch? Receive individual instruction and discover your own unique style.

Ready, Set, Paint! This course will cover all you need to get started in oil painting.

Working from a live unclothed model, this 6 week class is designed to help students obtain the basic skill of drawing the human form, including proportion, observation, and fundamental exercises in gesture, contour, outline, and tonal modeling.

Open studios are non-instructed sessions with live models. A combination of short and long poses will be done. Participants may work at their own pace and with whatever medium they wish to work with.

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22 Events on February 22, 2012 Painting the Still Life in Oils : instructor Mia Bergeron Starts: 9:00 am Ends: February 22, 2012 - 12:00 pm Description: This course is a follow up to OIL PAINTING BASICS, however, all students are welcome! We will be exploring the visual elements such as drawing, values, color, edges, and composition, while working on a still- life. Figure Drawing Basics | instructed by Townsend Atelier staff Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: February 22, 2012 - 8:00 pm Description: The basics of drawing the figure from life will be covered. Great for beginners or for those who want to brush up on their drawing skills.

23 Events on February 23, 2012 Life Drawing | Open Studio Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: February 23, 2012 - 9:00 pm Location: Townsend Atelier Description: Open studios are non-instructed sessions with live models. A combination of short and long poses will be done. Participants may work at their own pace and with whatever medium they wish to work with. Easels and tables will be provided. Drop in any session for $15 ($10 with student ID), or receive a discounted rate by pre-registering below for a package of four sessions for $40. Level: all levels of experience are welcome

25 Events on February 25, 2012 SILK PAINTING WITH CLAIRE VASSORT Starts: 10:00 am Ends: February 25, 2012 - 5:00 pm Location: Townsend Atelier

26 Events on February 26, 2012 SILK PAINTING WITH CLAIRE VASSORT Starts: 12:00 am Ends: February 27, 2012 - 12:00 am Location: Townsend Atelier Starts: 9:00 am Ends: February 26, 2012 - 3:00 pm

27 Events on February 27, 2012 Drawing 101 instructor: Caleb Goggans Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: February 27, 2012 - 7:00 pm

28 Events on February 28, 2012 Painting Class : As You Like It | instructor: James Courtenay James Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: February 28, 2012 - 9:00 pm Description: Students chose from a cityscape, a figure or a still-life to complete during a 6 week exploration of traditional oil painting techniques.

29 Events on February 29, 2012 Painting the Still Life in Oils : instructor Mia Bergeron Starts: 9:00 am Ends: February 29, 2012 - 12:00 pm Description: This course is a follow up to OIL PAINTING BASICS, however, all students are welcome! We will be exploring the visual elements such as drawing, values, color, edges, and composition, while working on a still- life. Figure Drawing Basics | instructed by Townsend Atelier staff Starts: 6:00 pm Ends: February 29, 2012 - 8:00 pm Description: The basics of drawing the figure from life will be covered. Great for beginners or for those who want to brush up on their drawing skills.