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Call (408) 247-9340 or email education@tritonmuseum.org for information and registration.

On-site art classes are offered throughout the year in a variety of media for all ages and levels of training. Together with our professional artist/educators, students explore the creative process in a supportive and experimental environment, and all classes involve educational experiences in the museum galleries.

Thursday evenings, 6:30-9:00 p.m., Sept. 2 to Nov. 4,, 2010

Life Drawing with Kristin Lindseth-Rivera

$175 TMA members, $195 General , Drop in fee: $20/session

Beginning to advanced work. One on one coaching for all levels. Gain a basic understanding of direct observation with different models, short to medium range poses, advance-critiques, and feedback from instructor. Bring your own easel, tables and chairs are provided.

Kristin Lindseth-Rivera is an award-winning sculptor and print maker who has exhibited nationally. She has taught drawing, sculpture and digital arts at Mission College and the Pacific Art League.

Friday evenings, 6:30-9:00 p.m., Sept. 3 to Nov. 12, 2010. (No class on Nov. 5.)

Pastels with Jeff Bramschreiber

$150 TMA members, $175 General

Beginning to advanced work, using soft pastel, oil pastel, different grounds, velours, varying grades of paper. All levels welcome.

Jeff Bramschreiber is an award-winning painter and pastel artist. He has taught a variety of two-dimensional art classes and workshops for all ages.

Wednesday mornings, 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.,9.1, 10.6, 11.3, 12.1.10

Watercolor Masters' Class with Jane Hofstetter

$135 members, $155 non-members

Using her book, 7 Keys to Great Paintings, as a manual for the class, Jane R. Hofstetter will teach four classes presenting techniques and posing solutions to problems encountered when using watercolor. Many examples of famous artists will be looked at in each class with Ms. Hofstetter demonstrating techniques. Students will work at home and bring their work for critique.

Ms. Hofstetter has been painting and teaching for more than 25 years. She studied art at the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles' Chouinard Art Institute. Ms. Hofstetter is a member of the National Watercolor Society and Watercolor West. She currently teaches watercolor workshops throughout the United States and Europe. Her work has appeared in Watercolor Magic, American Artist, The Artist Magazine and The Collected Best of Watercolor (Rockport Publishers, 2002). She is the author of 7 Keys to Great Paintings (North Light Books, 2005).

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