Resin Art Sun Catcher and Wall Art
Connie Shurtz, the instructor will be teaching on
Saturday! - July 5th, 2025
10am to 1pm
Come and join us for a fun class and take home a beach-inspired treasure to enjoy for years to come. Class will include all materials including seashells, starfish, various resin turtles and sea life. You will learn about resin and enjoy a hands on experience creating a unique piece of art. Join the fun and make new friends.
Price: $55 Members/ $75 Non-Members
Includes all supplies. Supply fee of $25 cannot be refunded if cancellation occurs within two weeks of class.
Date: Saturday July 5, 2025
Time: 10am-1pm
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION:
Lake Tree Shores Clubhouse 1665 East Sandridge Court, Ocean Isle Beach, NC.
Connie Shurtz is an award winning
Ocean Isle Beach artist who has been teaching resin art projects for many years.
She enjoys all opportunities to share her love of creativity with the people who attend her classes.
Registration Link - Click Here!
Alla Prima Oil Portraits with Amy Gibson
July 10th, 2025
9:30am to 3:30pm
Discover the fundamentals of portrait painting using a limited palette inspired by the renowned Swedish painter Anders Zorn. In this workshop, we will explore the alla prima technique, which allows you to start and finish a painting in a single session while the paint remains wet. Through step-by step guidance and engaging exercises, you'll learn how to mix skin tones, control your brushwork, and achieve a striking likeness in your portraits!
*For seasoned beginners who have had a little experience painting with oils
Price: $55 Members/ $75 Non-Members
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION:
Elks Lodge in Calabash, NC
Lunch will be provided at workshop!
937 Carter Dr. SW
Calabash, NC 28467
Glass Enamel Painting Workshop with Debbie Sullivan
Monday, July 21, 2025 NEW DATE!
9:30am to 3:30pm
Timmy the Turtle - Glass Enamel Painting
This introductory class will show you how to use enamel paint on glass. The paint is a powder that is mixed with Medium to become a liquid form that you can then apply to glass. You will start out using a toothpick to paint Timmy. Yes a toothpick. From there you can progress to a paintbrush.
The instructor will provide a beginner’s kit for $72 which has everything you need to create your turtle, with a few exceptions listed below.
The beginner’s kit will include:
· 9 colors of enamel glass paint
· a brush
· medium
· pods to mix paint.
· 8” x 10” piece of glass for painting.
· Thinfire paper for fusing.
· One kiln firing.
YOU will need to bring:
· Toothpicks
· Metal Mixing spatula (see note below)
· A Plastic blending palette (see note below)
· Additional paintbrushes if you wish, but they should not have been used with other products.
Tofficu Acrylic Mixing Palette Set with Spatula and Mixing Plate can be purchased online at Amazon for $6.09. Here’s the link: https://a.co/d/hCPOLT2
Please bring a check/cash/ to pay the instructor for your kit at the beginning of class. You may also pay with Venmo/PP/Zelle.
Price: $55 Members/ $65 Non-Members
Please also bring a sack lunch and beverage for lunch.
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION:
C.B. Berry Community Center
2250 SC-179
Little River, SC 29566
Come Sail Away With Sue Barnard
August 2, 2025
9:30am to 12:30pm
Come Sail Away is a mixed media adventure where you will learn to create a lovely textured acrylic painting of a sailboat from start to finish.
Bring your artsy self and be prepared for hands on fun!
A limited number of frames will be available for purchase at the end of the event.
This is a class for both beginners and seasoned artists who enjoy working in the company of others.
Supply list:
12x24” canvas board or other similar tall shape. (Frames available for 12x24 boards only.) There will extras available at the class for $5
Acrylic paints, palette, paper towels
Container for water
Clothing protector
Hair dryer to dry the adhesive
medium prior to painting.
A few will be available for you if you don’t have one.
½” wide flat brush
#5 round brush or other smaller bristled brush for finer details.
Medium and adhesives will be provided by the instructor.
Price: $40 Members/ $60 Non-Members
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION:
Lake Tree Shores Clubhouse 1665 East Sandridge Court, Ocean Isle Beach, NC.
Registration and Supply List - Click Here!
Painting Wildlife in Watercolor with Lourdes Rasdall
August 12, 2025
10:00am to 4:00pm
Painting Wildlife in Watercolor – 1 day workshop
In this one-day workshop, we will explore techniques
to depict wildlife in their natural environments and natural behaviors, and design a composition that captures the animal’s personality through facial expressions, body language and textures
such as feather & fur.
Some experience with watercolor helpful.
Materials list:
- Your favorite watercolor paints, either tubes or pans (I use professional vs. student grade). If you are buying watercolor paints, a cool & a warm of each primary color (red, yellow & blue), Burnt Sienna, and Neutral Tint is a good start, as you can mix a wide range of colors with these. Some of my other favorites are Turquoise Blue, Cerulean Blue, Indigo.
- Watercolor palette. Ideally, you’ll want a palette that has wells for your pigments & flat areas where you can mix washes. I like one with a lid, where the lid also doubles as a mixing area. If your palette does not have an area for mixing large puddles, you can use a couple of Styrofoam or plastic paper plates to mix.
- Watercolor paper - pads, blocks or sheets ok (9x12” or larger). Coldpress 140 lbs, 100% cotton is best. You can also use hot press if that is your preference, still 140lb, 100% cotton.
- Watercolor brushes - a couple of rounds & flats in small, medium & large sizes. One 1” (or larger) flat or hake for wetting your entire paper.
- Paper towels, small bucket or container for your paint water.
- Nice to have (bring only if you have; I will have enough for everyone): waterproof black ink marker, like Micron or Faber Castell Pitt marker nib size 05 or 08, a white gel pen, small spray or mister bottle, masking fluid
I will have other supplies in the classroom to
share with workshop participants.
Price: $65Members/ $85 Non-Members
LOCATION:
Elks Lodge in Calabash, NC
Lunch will be provided at workshop!
937 Carter Dr. SW
Calabash, NC 28467
Registration, Bio and Supply List - Click Here!
10-Week Class with Terri Harrison
Starting - September 9th, 2025
Tuesdays
9:30am to 12:30pm
Suggested materials list: The materials list will be discussed on the first day of class in depth.
First day of class: All -purpose drawing paper, pencils: (2 H, 2 B, 6 B), a kneaded eraser. a simple object to draw. This can be as simple as a coffee cup.
Drawing materials: All purpose drawing paper, assorted drawing pencils, example, 2H, 2B, 4B, 6B and a kneaded eraser, graphite transfer paper.
Printed photo reference for drawing and painting.
Oils or Acrylics: You will need a stretched canvas, (a table top easel, optional). palette for your specific painting medium, brushes, container for odorless thinner or water and paper towels.
We will discuss options for painting mediums and brushes in class.
Watercolors: Arches 140 lb. cold pressed watercolor paper. a prepared board for stretches, staple gun or a watercolor block, watercolor palette, water container, brushes, paper towels.
Watercolors, Acrylics and Oils: Warm colors: Cadmium Yellow Med., Cadmium Red Med., Cobalt blue, Cerulean Blue Cool colors: Cadmium Lemon Yellow, Permanent Alizarin Crimson or Permanent Rose, (an alternate color is Quinacridone Red), Ultramarine Blue (White Permalba or Titanium White is for Oils and Acrylics Only)
Please buy artist quality paints, for example M Graham or Holbein watercolors. Holbein, Charvin, Winsor and Newton, etc oil colors. Waterbased may also be used. Good quality acrylics like Holbein or other artist quality paints are again recommended.
Brushes: For watercolors, I use, Robert Simmons Sapphire brush number 10 and number 1 round. Daler Rowney Skyflow Aquafine 2” or 1 1/2” flat brush Purchase from Dick Blick, Jerry’s Artarama, Amazon and Jackson’s Art Supplies Rosemary and Co. Eradicator purchase this brush from Wind River Arts Mary@windriverarts.com or call (972) 342-4947.
Oil and Acrylic brushes: Filbert shape brushes in bristle, or synthetic bristle and soft brushes like Black Swan, Silver brush, (Ruby Satin) an Master’s Touch flibert synthetic bristle. These brushes are just suggestions, they are generally what I use. If possible use artist quality brushes.
Sources for materials: Jerry’s Artarama, Dick Blick, Hobby Lobby, Wind River Arts, Jackson’s Art Supplies and Amazon
Price: $160 Members/ $180 Non-Members
Classes will be held
at Terri Harrison's studio
57 Doe Creek Lane, S.W.
Supply, NC 28462
Registration and Supply List - Click Here!
Palette Knife Paint Class with Linda Karaskevicus
Mark the Dates!
October 6, 2026
9:30am to 12:30pm
Classes will be held at:
C.B. Berry Community Center in Calabash, NC
2250 SC-179
Little River, SC 29566
More Info Coming Soon!
Please join us - Wednesday Morning Paint-Ins!
Everyone is Welcome!
Our informal paint-in sessions are free for members and held every Wednesday at the Bellinger Artworks Studio, 283B Koolabrew Drive NW, Calabash, North Carolina from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Donations are welcome. Artists bring whatever projects they wish to work on and simply share the experience of painting together.
We meet in Bellinger Art Studios
283B Koolabrew Drive
Calabash, NC 28467
Interested in painting Plein Air Painting? - Thursday AM
Meet up at Vereen Gardens, down by the waterfront!
Meet us for plein air painting on Thursday mornings. We often meet at Vereen Gardens down by the waterfront but have been trying to go to some different locations.
Please join the Facebook page Brunswick County NC Plein Air Painters for weekly updates on location and times.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1027368801917383
We meet about 8:30 or 9 am on Thursdays, weather permitting.
Any questions, please contact Diane White. 412-965-1952 or diane.white257@gmail.com
library art exhibits
Members may hang 2 pieces of artwork per quarter at the Southwest Brunswick Branch Library to display or sell. This is done on a quarterly basis starting in January, then April, July, and October. It’s suggested that you consider seasonal and local themes for your entries.
This is a great opportunity to display your art and show the community what
Waterway Art is all about.
Applications are available at the library's main desk.
10% of the proceeds benefit the “Friends of the Library”.
Contact Clare Pazona (cpazona@gmail.com) for the Southwest Brunswick Branch Library.
