Debbie Dean Rooster Acyrlic $300.00

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Wednesdays & Fridays: 10am - 2pm with Potluck Lunch

Acrylic Painting Class
Supplies Provided for First Class

$75 Drop-in or $200 for 4 Classes

RSVP: Jessel Miller 707-257-2350

All Lessons Customized to Fit Your Needs. NO Experience Necessary!

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DIANE POPE'S ​WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24
​10am - 1pm
$50 per class or
 $160 for a 4 class punch card
Supplies: $5 Additional
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RSVP to Diane:
 707-483-4926 or spinpope@sbcglobal.net

Tuesday the 10th: Colorful Landscapes-Color is the focus of this class. We will think outside the norm and have fun blending colors to create a beautiful landscape. Class size is limited to 10 and is suitable for all levels of experience. 
 
Thursday the 19th: Intro to watercolor painting-I’ll go over the basics from supplies to techniques to help you get started with this fun, exciting medium. This class is designed for students just starting out on their journey into watercolor painting.
 
Tuesday the 24th: Hummingbird-In this class I will show you my process for painting a hummingbird from the first washes of color to the techniques for shading, painting the eyes and creating feathers. Class size is limited to 10 and is suitable for all levels of experience. 
 
We will be painting outside on the front deck of the gallery. If the weather is bad we will move inside to the large gallery room. 

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Classes can be held on-site or off-site at Jessel Gallery

• This is not a paint-by-numbers class. Artwork is personalized and unique.
• Hands-on individualized teaching by Jessel Miller.
• This experience is creative and educational as well as relaxing and re-energizing.
  
• Jessel Gallery provides all project supplies.
• Each student leaves with a completed piece of art.

Email or Call 707.257.2350 

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Student Work

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Abstracted Landscapes

Learning about Abstraction

Cows (and One Donkey)

Rabbits & Roosters

Les éléphants
Elephants are not the easiest subject yet we started with palette knife filled with different colors and stroked them across the page and then did the elephant on top

Rejoicing in Roosters
This has been so much fun as we start with abstracts and work our way to reality doing fun and exciting Roosters​

Celia Cummings Racing Rooster Acyrlic $300.00

Combining Home with Landscape

​The idea was to find a landscape image and a farm house image and put them together

Cypress Trees & More Class

Nouria Painting on Canvas

Sweet Interpretations for Animals on Sta Wet

Sta Wet Trees

Mostly Boats on Sta Wet
​ Class was given a choice of landscape or boats and most everyone did a boat scene. Great Class!

Sta Wet Flowers in the Window Inside and Out

Light Through Trees

Private class with Kerri

Misty Moments Reflective of the Early California Artist

Private Class

Sta Wet Trees

Sta Wet Florals

Easter Week

Painting Trees and Paths on a Sta Wet Paper from Color Blots

Private class with Kerri

The Cat's Out of the Bag

Ladies in the Garden of Life

Animals

Going to the Dogs

Roads and Trees

Homage to Artist Sheila Marie

Palette Knife Class: Clouds

Underpainting Landscapes with Reflections on Water

Student Work

Windows and Your View

All About Goats & Cottages

Tree Class: The exploration continues with more beautiful tree paintings.

Underpainting Class: Great Job by both these students!

Tree class: GREAT JOB from Sta Wet to Beautiful Trees

Faces & Eyes Class: Learning to paint faces focused on eyes. I loved all 3 versions of this face This was a 2 part class and these girls worked hard and it shows

Beautiful landscapes by Debbie Dean

Clara Tiger Cigar Box

Nouria

Nouria Angel and Bird Box

Cynthia Cigar Box

Debbie Landscape

Nouria Cigar Box

Birgitta Cigar Box

Debbie Dean Cigar Box

ClaraCigar Box

Gay

Debbie Dean:

Susie's Progression:

Joy did a floral first and then she found 2 areas in the painting and expanded them into abstracts . This is an exercise we do in class and what I call the Finding the Sweet Spot.

Susan

Nouria

Nouria

Susie

Nancy wanted to do watercolors and this was her idea. It was fun to paint in this medium after almost a year of not working in watercolors.

It looks easy to do these little pieces yet it took 3 hours to complete the paintings and lots of moaning and groaning! They turned out great!

Nouria

Clara

Birgitta

Cynthia

Cynthia

Debbie's Progression:

Susie's Progression:

Birgitta's Progression:

Debbie's Progression:

Debbie Dean

Debbie Dean cigar box. Exquisite job!

Debbie Dean

Birgitta

Birgitta

Debbie Cigar Box

Nouria Landscape

Nouria

Kathy Floral on Sta Wet Paper

Clara Truck

Clara's Still Life

Cynthia's homage to Olaf Schneider

Joy

Debbie

Debbie

Gwen

New from Nouria

Pieces by new student Debi

Nouria

Sky painting - Nouria

Sky painting - Cynthia

Cynthia - palette knife class

Class on Jessel's Birthday

Clara on Sta Wet Paper

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A Note from a Student
Hi Jessel. Thank you so much for providing your art lessons in acrylic. I learned a whole new approach to painting. I am so excited to continue with new projects when I return home. Your calm instruction made it so easy to complete my painting. You are a great teacher of art. Your studio is wonderful with a diverse mix of art. I am in awe of your talent. Good luck on your most recent book. I hope to see you in January when I return to CA and take more lessons.
Take care. Mary

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Palette Knife Class
I taught everyone how to do a tiny abstract and then pick your favorite on and blow it up. there are a couple of lovely examples with Erin and Leslie. Leslie did something unusual in that she put an abstract in the background to start with and then painted a lovely face over it. Both are brilliant examples. It was a great week of discovery.

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Palette Knife Class
Gay tried my technique for the first time and as a realist she took off and just flew into beautiful free inspiring images

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Nouria

Nouria - palette knife class

Clara - palette knife class

Gwen's Homage to Ann Boyd

Nouria

Clara

Nouria

Nouria

Clara (in the Jessel style)

Happy Father's Day, Dad, Olaf Schneider

Gwen's Homage to Olaf
Gwen spent a month on this piece studying Olaf's painting Happy Father's Day, Dad. She did a beautiful job!

Sophie Start

Sophie Progress

Sophie Complete

Kelly Start

Kelly Progress

Kelly Complete

Courtney Start

Courtney Progress

Courtney Complete

Kathy

Maureen

Maureen

Clara (with a little help from Jessel)

Clara

Start of Kathy's painting

Kathy's dove painting finished

Joie Goodkin

Cynthia - Bravo this is a great one!

Maureen

Gwen

Nancy

Maureen

Gwen - palette knife flower painting

From Abstract to Image: Helga's Abstract

From Abstract to Image: Helga's Image

From Abstract to Image: Maureen's Abstract

From Abstract to Image: Maureen's Image

Here is Clara's wonderful piece

Nouria

Nouria with help from Jessel

Helga B

Helga B

Helga B

Linda

Gwen

Gwen

Nouria

Nouria

Nouria

Nouria

Nouria

Gwen

Gwen

Linda at Work

Linda is a student who moved away but came to visit and is painting while she is here. She did 3 pieces and did a wonderful job on all three.

Recent Sessions

Nouria Abstract

Nouria Floral Vase

Barbara

Barbara Progression

Clara Start

Clara Completion

Birgitta Karlman

Birgitta Karlman

This is a wonderful painting by Gwen What a great sense of movement and color. BRAVO GWEN!

Nouria

Clara

Two Can

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Recent Social Distancing Private Classes

Barbara Campbell painting Jessel Method

Barbara's painting

Clara and Nouria

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Social Distancing Private Class

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The Jessel Method - Part II

I call this a painting duet since she did most of the design and I put in the faces. There is a quiet spirit coming out of the flowers near the top.
GREAT JOB NOURIA!

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The Jessel Method

Sally and her first "Jessel Method" class

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Party of Two

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A Morning in the Zen Zone

Chris and Kaitlin painting. This is a lovely sweet couple sharing a Friday Morning in the Zen Zone!

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Rooftop Class for Two

This was a lovely perfect evening of Mom and Step Daughter night. Mom Jan surprised Pam with this gift and she had no idea what they were doing on my roof. It was a splendid night and the paintings turned out beautifully.

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Stella Shines

Stella enjoyed a quick lesson with Jessel learning watercolor techniques.

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Table for Two

Mark and Anne

Students Say

I would like to comment on the art classes I have begun with Jessel in Napa. As a disabled person, having lost the use of my left hand, and with zero art experience, I was amazed at what I was able to create in a single lesson. Jessel is a patient, talented artist who shares her techniques with people like me who know nothing. By the end of one class, I had an interesting, colorful piece of art that was actually good enough to frame or display. And the second class was a different technique with a completely different result. Very happy to be learning a creative activity to pursue. She is the best teacher!! ❤️❤️ Kathy Ryan

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Wanted to tell you a big thank you for yesterday afternoon. I loved learning more of the “Jessel Method” and it was my first time inside a place in months. I love the Jessel Method and plan to play with it often. I use Saral transfer paper for my mandala templates. I am going to try it for tracing images as it comes in several colors either as sheets or a roll if you want to see if it can work as well for you as the carbon paper. Thank you for a lovely experience and I am delighted to expand upon what I learned from you yesterday; as it was also my first time adding an image in that way to an abstract painting. Have a wonderful day!
Peace and Joy, Joie
Peace is Joy at rest; Joy is Peace dancing!

Joie Goodkin

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"Thank you, thank you... it was a great class, Jessel. It's been almost two years since I started the class. The whole experience has been so good for me. You may not remember how and why I got started in my "art class journey" . I came in to the studio to give you those dress shoes I didn't wear to a fundraiser - and thought I'd never wear heels of any kind again - after my bike accident. I picked up one of your brochures and told you that the Kaiser Rehab suggested that doing new things in a new environment with new people would be a good step in recovery for me. I was all in of course and felt that a big plus was that Jessel Gallery was not a completely new thing for me. And the "rest is history" as they say." - Sally K.