{"title":"Adult Intensives","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour weeks, one \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efocused subject, real progress. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmall-group adult \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eart classes at our Suwanee studio — 12 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eseats each, all materials included, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebeginners welcome. $175 per course.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"start-here-adult-intensive","title":"Start Here: Foundations for Your Art Practice - Adult Intensive","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFoundations for finding your artistic practice - Led by Juleah Everglade\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTuesdays 6:30–8:30pm | Oct 6, 13, 20 \u0026amp; 27 | $175\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou've wanted to make art for years. Or you used to, and life happened. Or you make art all the time and you've hit a wall. \u003cstrong\u003eStart Here\u003c\/strong\u003e is four weeks of structured studio time built around the questions that actually start an art practice: How does an image work? What materials feel like mine? How do I learn to really see? And what do I want to say?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn't a class where everyone leaves with the same finished painting — on purpose. Each week comes at art-making from a different direction: color and composition, materials and texture, observational drawing, and finally meaning and direction. You'll make studies, experiments, and small works all along the way. Some will be beautiful. Some will fail. Some will surprise you and point somewhere new. 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This course starts from the opposite idea: the water is your collaborator. Pigment moves, blooms, settles, and sometimes does something better than what you planned. Over four weeks, you'll learn enough control to make intentional choices — and enough trust to let the medium participate in the painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\"Loose\" doesn't mean splashy or unfinished. It means selective: knowing what needs to be described, what can be suggested, where an edge should disappear, and when one more brushstroke would add less than it takes away. You'll paint landscapes by reducing a scene to a few large shapes instead of a thousand leaves, and florals through gesture and brush rhythm instead of outlining every petal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe four weeks:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWeek 1, let the water move — moisture, timing, edges, and a first small atmospheric landscape. Week 2, paint the shape, not the tree — reducing a landscape to big value masses that read from across the room. Week 3, gesture before petals — loose florals painted from fresh flowers, brush-first. 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Over four weeks, you'll turn it into a finished gouache portrait that doesn't just look like an animal. It looks like \u003cem\u003eyour\u003c\/em\u003e animal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis isn't four sessions of copying a photograph. The first two weeks are about the decisions that make a portrait work — choosing a strong reference, simplifying shapes, building a color palette from your pet's actual fur (a black cat is never just black), and learning what gouache can do. Then weeks three and four are sustained painting time, so you finish one portrait you're genuinely excited to hang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe four weeks:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWeek 1, choose your reference and design your composition. Week 2, mix your pet's palette and learn gouache on practice sheets. 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