Instructor: Alec Zemper

Beginner - Advanced
5 Day Intensive
Monday-Friday 9:30am-3:30pm
November 9th - 13th
Class Maximum: 8 Students

Materials are included in all of our classes
This intensive is offered bi-annually

We are excited to announce our first weeklong Drawing Intensive at Ghosthouse Fine Art Studio. As the most basic form of mark-making, drawing is the foundation of all visual art, and a cornerstone of good painting. Join us for a full week of focused drawing instruction to build skill and confidence in both academic and freeform drawing approaches.

Students will work from life and reference, learning to solve more and more complex drawings as the week progresses. This intensive is designed for ambitious students of all skill levels, and will teach a mix of theory and application.

Class size will be limited to 8 students to maximize instructor/student time.
A class Syllabus is available in PDF format. Please email us at Alec@GhosthouseGR.com to receive one.

Instructor: Caroline Hahn

Beginner - Advanced
4 Week Class
Mondays 6:30-9:30pm
November 2nd - 23rd
Class Maximum: 14 Students

Materials are included in all of our classes.

This immersive four-week class offers a hand-on deep dive into the world of the artists and times of The French Revolution

Students will explore the movement’s historical roots with a focus on painter Jaques Louis David; his work and life. Each week combines art history discussions with focused studio practice, culminating in the completion of a painted mastercopy.

This class aims to give students insight into the techniques, symbolism, and visual language that defined the movement—while building their own skills in composition, color mixing, and narrative painting.

Instructor: Thomas Schaffer

Intermediate - Advanced
4 Week Class
Tuesdays 6:00-9:00pm
November 3rd - 24th
Class Maximum: 14 Students

Materials are included in all of our classes.

In this class we will be learning the basic rules of environment design, along with practicing design thinking and learning how to improve our own work through self-guided iteration. Much of the discussion will be centered around the entertainment industry, but the knowledge will be applicable to traditional mediums just as well.

The structure of the class will be an introduction to concept prompts and a selection of reference material, followed by 3-6 grayscale marker sketches by the students. At the end of the second class, we will do an art director’s critique session. The following weeks we will be doing a second round of 3-6 grayscale marker sketches, concluding with a final critique session and selecting each student’s strongest piece.

The instructor will be participating alongside the students, helping students work through any roadblocks.

Instructor: Alec Zemper

Beginners & Intermediates
4 Week Class
Wednesdays 6:00pm - 9:00pm
November 5th - 25th
Class Maximum: 14 Students

Materials are included in all of our classes.

Focusing on a non-toxic method of painting in oils, this class is designed as an immersive in-depth primer for oil painting and its materials and process. If you are interested in painting but do not know where to start, or you have some experience and are looking to improve your foundational skills, this is the class to take. Students will be completing 3-4 paintings in this class.

Mythology & Legend - Female Model
Thursdays
November 5th, 12th, & 19th
6:00pm - 9:00pm (9 hours total)
Maximum Attendees: 20
Ages: 18+

Join us starting in October for our three Themed Open Studio nights. These sessions are split into three 3 hour poses over the course of the month.

Instructor: Alec Zemper

Beginner - Advanced
6 Week Class
Fridays 6:00pm-9:00pm
November 13th - 27th, December 4th - 18th
Class Maximum: 10 Students

Materials are included in all of our classes.

Join us in learning the classical method of drawing the long-form nude figure in this six-week course. Participants will work with a single, sustained pose throughout the duration of the class, honing their skills in accurate observation, anatomy, proportion, and rendering.

Using Charcoal, students will explore foundational techniques such as block-ins, measuring, preliminaries, and the careful study of light and shadow to achieve a highly lifelike drawing.

This challenging class is foundational in pushing our abilities well beyond what we believe we are capable of.

Instructor: Madison Memering

Beginners - Advanced
Field & Indoor Class Hybrid
Weekend Immersive
Saturday & Sunday 11:00am - 4:00pm
November 7th & 8th
Class Maximum: 12 Students

Materials are included in all of our classes.

This course is devoted to the quiet and meditative study of nature findings through drawing and watercolor, balancing scientific clarity with artistic sensitivity. Students will contemplate interesting ideas through observational techniques and render journal entries of the botanical forms with precision and character. Emphasis will be placed on how to keep a nature journal practice, gathering information to build studies, capturing details, clean line work, and controlled watercolor washes to create beautiful botanical works. By the end of the course, students will complete a collection of nature observations that reflect a quiet reverence for our findings, feel inspired to continue this sensitive practice of keeping a nature journal, and learn how to use these studies to work from to create more traditional botanical artworks.

Ghosthouse will provide students with a sketchbook, but you are free to also bring your own journal to add work to or use un-bound drawing and watercolor paper provided.

IInstructor: Leah Morrison

Beginners & Intermediates
Weekend Immersive
Saturday & Sunday 10:00am-3:30pm
November 21st & 22nd
Class Maximum: 14 students

Materials are included in all of our classes.

This course explores the subtle practice of landscape painting in watercolor. Students will learn to simplify complex scenes into clear value shapes, build atmospheric depth through layered washes, and capture light with restraint rather than excess.

By the end of the class, students will have completed several small landscape paintings that reflect clarity of structure, sensitivity to color, and a sense of space & atmosphere.

Instructor: Alec Zemper

Beginner - Intermediate
Weekend Immersive
Saturday & Sunday - 10:00am-3:30pm
November 14th & 15th
Class Maximum: 14 Students

Materials are included in all of our classes.

This class offers a focused exploration of color and pigment interactions in oil painting, with an emphasis on learning to quickly and accurately match colors from life and reference. Students will begin with a limited set of colors, practicing how to identify hue, value, and chroma, while slowly introducing more pigments to their palette.