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This class is a one-room schoolhouse! Ann prompts students with a skills assignment each week. The starting assignments are geared to help raw beginners, but students of all levels can find them useful. Many students prefer the independent study route and will get support in pursuing their own artistic practice. Beginners and all other skill levels are welcome. Acrylic, watercolor, oil, and pastel are welcome.

Check out Ann’s supply lists for more information.

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This class is a one-room schoolhouse! Ann prompts students with a skills assignment each week. The starting assignments are geared to help raw beginners, but students of all levels can find them useful. Many students prefer the independent study route and will get support in pursuing their own artistic practice. Beginners and all other skill levels are welcome. Acrylic, watercolor, oil, and pastel are welcome.

Check out Ann’s supply lists for more information.

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Let’s go oitside and paint. Classes will start in the Sculpture Garden at the Palo Alto Art Center, and then meet around town to practice our outdoor painting skills. Beginners and all other skill levels are welcome. Acrylic, watercolor, oil, and pastel are welcome.

Check out Ann’s supply lists for more information.

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This class is a one-room schoolhouse! Ann prompts students with a skills assignment each week. The starting assignments are geared to help raw beginners, but students of all levels find them useful. Many students prefer the independent study route and will get support in pursuing their own artistic practice. Beginners and all other skill levels are welcome. Acrylic, watercolor, oil, and pastel are welcome.

Check out Ann’s supply lists for classes.

Exhibit commemorating the Boundary Oak at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. I have one piece in this show, but I love the piece and the show. The show is wonderfully diverse with many different interpretations of the theme and some truly stunning artistry in a difficult medium. My artwork at this show is my first wood sculpture.

Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California

tiny - small pieces
November 4- December 24, 2021

Please contact my gallery if you would like to see the five pieces they have from a distance.  

Please join me for further outdoor painting this winter. Bring hot tea and a down coat!

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Registration Link for Session II, 4 Thursday Evenings, 7-8:15 pm.

Acrylics: Further Abstractions I & II

Thursday evenings, Session I: 6 weeks, Session II: 4 weeks. 

Zoom and Google Classroom

Students will join in or continue our summer explorations that started with the question “Where does abstraction come from?”  We will execute prompts that start students on the road to finding their own abstract voices. Beginners are welcome, other media are welcome, but demonstrations will be in acrylic. The class will be limited to twenty students, so that microphones can be active during class. Please see annmcmillanart.com for updated materials lists. 

Experimental Drawing Online with Ann McMillan: Session 2

All ages. Four Thursdays, 11 am-12:15 pm.

Join the second session of this class to explore drawing skills and ideas with an experimental and intuitive approach. You are welcome, even if you did not take the first set of classes. We will use basic drawing skills and mixed-media tools to find and explore unique voices in drawing. Abstraction and experimental approaches will be welcomed into this drawing class. We will use google classroom to share and document classwork. The class will be limited to twenty students, so that microphones can be active during class. 

This interactive online class will be taught via Zoom. The class will begin with a 50-minute lecture and demonstration followed by 25 minutes for questions and interactive learning. Classes will be recorded and available to enrolled students for the duration of the class. Additional support will be given via Google Classroom.

After you sign up, you will receive the zoom meeting link information in your receipt.

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This class meets Fridays from 10 am - 1 p.m. for 6 weeks.

This painting class will introduce basic skills in the handling of oil or acrylic paint. Pastels are also welcome. We will explore various approaches to painting including alla prima, impasto, wet-into-wet, and glazing. More advanced students will broaden their technical knowledge as well as develop their own content and voice. Focus early in the class will be on observation and interpretation of still life. Ann will show how to paint from sketches and photos as students are interested. All painterly media are welcome, including soft pastel, oil, acrylic, gouache, and watercolor. Please check out my supply lists in the top menu. 

Experimental Drawing Online with Ann McMillan: Session 1, six weeks.

All ages. Four Thursdays, 11 am-12:15 pm.

Join the second session of this class to explore drawing skills and ideas with an experimental and intuitive approach. We will use basic drawing skills and mixed-media tools to find and explore unique voices in drawing. Abstraction and experimental approaches will be welcomed into this drawing class. We will use google classroom to share and document classwork. The class will be limited to twenty students, so that microphones can be active during class. 

This interactive online class will be taught via Zoom. The class will begin with a 50-minute lecture and demonstration followed by 25 minutes for questions and interactive learning. Classes will be recorded and available to enrolled students for the duration of the class. Additional support will be given via Google Classroom.

Please see your receipt for Zoom Meeting link.

Mondays at 1 pm, using the zoom conference application.

Please register through the City of Palo Alto Web site.

Join adult studio instructor and Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art exhibiting artist Ann McMillan for her series of virtual classes: Spring Drawing— since we all need to get outside more!  July is an introduction the fun and spirit of watercolor.

Materials for summer classes

Classes are suitable for all ages, but geared to adults. They are content-rich and tend to move quite fast. Students are finding that they are not "draw-a-longs" but rather doode-as-you-listen-and-watch. Recordings are available of previous classes. This class recording will be posted the Tuesday following the lecture.

If you wish, you may use the google classroom code to join the online google classroom. The google classroom contains notes and drawings from previous lectures, links to recording, books and artists mentioned and recommended for review and a place to submit homework for feedback. The code is:

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Mondays at 1 pm, using the zoom conference application.

Please register through the City of Palo Alto Web site.

Join adult studio instructor and Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art exhibiting artist Ann McMillan for her series of virtual classes: Spring Drawing— since we all need to get outside more!  June will be about how to tell a nature strty by combining field sketches, photographs, field observations and research into a finished sketch page or artwork.

Materials for summer classes

Classes are suitable for all ages, but geared to adults. They are content-rich and tend to move quite fast. Students are finding that they are not "draw-a-longs" but rather doode-as-you-listen-and-watch. Recordings are available of previous classes. This class recording will be posted the Tuesday following the lecture.

If you wish, you may use the google classroom code to join the online google classroom. The google classroom contains notes and drawings from previous lectures, links to recording, books and artists mentioned and recommended for review and a place to submit homework for feedback. The code is:

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Mondays at 1 pm, using the zoom conference application.

Registration Link for zoom link. class recording and overview.

Join adult studio instructor and Rooted: Trees in Contemporary Art exhibiting artist Ann McMillan for her series of virtual classes: Spring Drawing— since we all need to get outside more! These sessions will introduce drawing flowers, leaves, and other outdoor subjects

Classes are free and suitable for all ages, but geared to adults. They are content-rich and tend to move quite fast. Students are finding that they are not "draw-a-longs" but rather doode-as-you-listen-and-watch. Recordings are available of previous classes. This class recording will be posted the Tuesday following the lecture.

If you wish, you may use the google classroom code to join the online google classroom. The google classroom contains notes and drawings from previous lectures, links to recording, books and artists mentioned and recommended for review and a place to submit homework for feedback. The code is:

aq4mbrs

Landscapes and Abstracts from California

Ann McMillan will be showing landscape oil paintings, a few collages and large scale abstracts in the Mountain View Performing Arts Center.

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Come join Ann McMillan for a workshop about using painting fundamentals to work fast and fresh in your choice of media. This class will welcome pastels, acrylics or oils. We will look at composition and value for designing paintings that are strong and interesting. We will also do a few color experiments to understand how color and value are related and why getting the values right is so key to making interesting paintings. If weather permits, this workshop will include a plein air component. We will do still-life indoors, or enlarge outdoor sketches if the weather is difficult. All levels are welcome – you can learn if you have painted for years, and if you have always wanted to paint this workshop is for you! Please check out my web site for starting materials lists by medium. 

10 Wednesday nights, 7 pm - 10 pm. 

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Please join Ann for a survey course in drawing and painting people. This class will introduce a challenging subject with playful and mindful discipline. We will explore several ways of drawing humans: field sketching, caricatures, self-portraits, and working from on figure and portrait from a tradition model pose. Class subjects will include drawing in proportion using angles and negative space, contour vs. core drawing, mass and line drawing and how they relate to one another, achieving a confident line, and showing gesture and expression.  Students are welcome to work independently, or to follow the exercises and guidelines offered each week.  All media are welcome: pastel, acrylic, oil, watercolor, markers, watercolor pencils, etc. You are welcome to choose a medium to use and stick to it for the quarter, or to play around with different media throughout the class.  The first couple of weeks we will start by drawing on paper with a model. Please visit  www.annmcmillanart.com for complete materials lists. 

9 classes. No class on on Monday, November 11, Veteran’s Day. 

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Course information (syllabus, materials ideas)...

Join Ann McMillan for an exploration in artmaking. In this class, a new idea or technique will be introduced each week. The main focus will be collage and mixed media techniques but other media are welcome. Experimentation and questions strongly encouraged! Techniques include painted paper collage, abstraction and color theory ideas explored with collage, mixing collage with pen and ink, watercolor, photo transfer, gel prints, sun print elements, acrylic, and gouache. To encourage innovation, rather than working from a set supply list, students can bring in what they already own, or obtain what they love to work with, and Ann will demonstrate and teach how to use the students medium of choice. Questions explored in this class might be: How do I make art that expresses my own vision? Can I create a series of works that show a message or theme to my artwork? Where does abstraction come from? If students are interested, we can finish the quarter by making figurative artworks by hiring a model.

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Four Wednesday evenings from 7 pm to 10 pm.

After a warm-up set of quick poses, students will paint or draw for the rest of each class from a single pose. Students are welcome to do as many artworks each evening as they wish. If students are interested, the last two weeks will be a single pose after the warm-up. Portrait work will be supported. All media and skill levels are welcome. Please look at my supply lists above for the medium of your choice. You can draw or paint in whatever you choose. Students who are beginning draftspeople are encouraged to draw, but not forbidden to paint.

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Four Mondays from 10 am to 1 pm.

Explore gelli plates, sun prints, paper marbling, inkjet wood transfer, and stamp making in this four-week introduction to fun ways to play with images and make stunning and beautiful paper. Supplies can be provided for a $20 fee, or students can bring their own. All media/skill levels are welcome.

6 Mondays, July 23 - August 27. 10 am - 1 pm. 

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Syllabus

Please join Ann for a survey course in drawing people. This class will introduce a challenging subject with playful and mindful discipline. We will explore several ways of drawing humans: field sketching, caricatures, self-portraits, and drawing figure and portrait from a tradition model pose. Class subjects will include drawing in proportion using angles and negative space, contour vs. core drawing, mass and line drawing and how they relate to one another, achieving a confident line, and showing gesture and expression in a drawing. The last two of the class sessions will explore painting and drawing people in color. All media are welcome: pastel, acrylic, oil, watercolor, markers, watercolor pencils, etc. Please see below and your receipt for studio access instructions and go to www.annmcmillanart.com for complete materials list.