Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute

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  • Paper Folded Books with Kasia Darling

    1 video

    Paper folded books are a creative and fun way to transform ordinary paper into unique and personalized books. You will also learn how to decorate your paper folded books with stickers, stamps, drawings, and collage. You will be able to make your own mini journals, notebooks, photo albums, and mor...

  • Abstract Painting with Candy Schultheis

    1 video

  • Intuitive Painting with Candy Schultheis

    1 video

  • Colored Pencil on Mylar with Janie Gildow

    1 video

    Step into the enchanting world of colored pencil art with Janie Gildow's captivating new online video class, "Colored Pencil on Mylar." In this immersive course, the talented artist shares her expertise in creating stunning opaque and translucent effects using colored pencils on drafting film. Wi...

  • Generative AI for Artists & Photographers

    4 videos — 1 extra

    Join Jay Pierstorff, a digital artist and AI enthusiast, on an exhilarating four-part video program exploring the fascinating world of Generative AI for Artists and Photographers. This immersive series delves into cutting-edge tools and software designed to inspire and empower creators in their a...

  • Introduction to Airbrush with Jay Pierstorff

    3 videos

    In this three-part online class, instructor Jay Pierstorff will guide you through the fascinating world of airbrushing. Modern technology has reduced the price of entry level airbrush kits to $40 or less. This is a great time to explore the unique opportunities the airbrush can bring to your art!...

  • Backgrounds & Patterns for Sketches with Susan B Neilson

    1 video

    Susan shares her expertise in creating stunning backgrounds and textures for sketching using the suminagashi method. Susan Burnham Neilson is a classically trained contemporary oil painter with a background in art education. Since moving to her home next to a nature conservancy in British Columb...

  • Making Gemstone & Crystal Watercolor with Karyn Holyk

    4 videos

    Karyn Holyk teaches you how to create your own watercolor paints from minerals and crystals. She will show you how to gather the necessary materials, how to source minerals and crystals that are already ground into a fine powder, and how to mix the powders with the ingredients to create a waterc...

  • Introduction to Gouache Painting with Sharon K. Schafer

    5 videos

    Sharon K. Schafer is a professional artist and teacher at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Art Institute.
    In her introduction to gouache painting, Schafer discusses the history of the medium, its advantages over other water-based paints, and the basic materials and tools needed to get started. Sh...

  • Introduction to Graphic Design, Layout & Working with Type, with Jay Pierstorff

    3 videos

    In Part 1 of Introduction to Graphic Design, Layouts and working with Type. Get started using a computer and Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Inkscape or similar program. You will learn about computer type or "fonts". Learn the difference between raster and vector fonts, true typ...

  • Landscape Sketching for Beginners with Asya Baldwin

    1 video

    Landscape Sketching for Beginners with Asya Baldwin

  • Indirect Painting Techniques by Mary Wilhelm

    6 videos

    Artist Mary Wilhelm demonstrates the "Indirect Oil Painting Techniques" by starting with a blank canvas, and a small photo for inspiration. She starts with an underpaint and adds detail and color as she demonstrates how she works her way to the completion of the painting in Lesson 6.

  • Layering and Burnishing with Colored Pencil with Janie Gildow

    1 video

    Learn the colored pencil technique for layering and burnishing. Instructor: Janie Gildow

  • Impressed Lines with Colored Pencils with Janie Gildow

    1 video — 1 extra

    Learn to create Impressed lines with Colored Pencil

  • Introduction to Polymer Clay with Laura LePere

    5 videos — 1 extra

    Laura LePere starts with the basics and teaches you how to create a Southwestern classic critter, A Regal Horned Lizard (Horney Toad) complete with a few ants for snacking. Join Laura on this beginner friendly project in polymer clay. Five parts.

  • Photographing Flying Birds with a Dot Sight with Jay Pierstorff

    1 video — 1 extra

    Jay Pierstorff shows you how to photograph flying birds with a dot sight finder. These devices are slotted in to the flash shoe of any camera that has one, and then you can easily track fast moving objects by looking through the dot sight with both eyes, and keeping the red dot on the subject. T...

  • Basics of Presenting
    1 video — 1 extra

    Basics of Presenting

    1 video — 1 extra

    a great presentation can quickly communicate projects, goals and ideas. It might be required for your job, or it might be something you want to do for a community project or to promote your business to the local service club. Whatever it is, Presenting can be a powerful skill to launch your goals...

  • Dry Brush Oil with Asya Baldwin

    2 videos

    Asya shows how to create a monochromatic image using two colors of oil paint, a smooth paper surface and erasers. Is it a painting, drawing or photo? No, it's a "Dry Brush Oil!"

  • Still Life - with Asya Baldwin

    1 video

    Asya Baldwin demonstrates composition, lighting, subject, texture and object placement in creating a still life scene for drawing or painting.

  • Low Relief Sculpture with Kara ZuZu

    3 videos

  • Pen and Ink Basics with Susan Morris

    4 videos

  • Basics of Light on Form with Rachel Ivanyi

    3 videos

  • Exploring Soft Pastels with Ursula Schneider

    5 videos — 1 extra

    This Five Part Series includes:
    #1 What Is Pastels?
    #2 How to Choose Pastels
    #3 Why Pastels?
    #4 What Supplies Will You Need?
    #5 Let's Use Soft Pastels to Make Marks.
    Be sure to download the PDF file for links to the products mentioned.

  • Nature Tangles with Gale Sherman

    12 videos — 1 extra

  • Basic Watercolor Wash Techniques with Rachel Ivanyi

    1 video

  • Watercolor Dry Brush Technique with Rachel Ivanyi

    1 video

  • Watercolor Techniques by Susan Morris

    3 videos

    Part #1 Traditional Basics
    Part #2 More Basics
    Part #3 Modern Fun Ones

  • Rick Wheeler Beginning Scratchboard

    1 video

  • Susan Morris Watercolor Petals

    1 video

  • Susan Morris Perspective Drawing

    1 video

  • What's Zentangle? with Gale Sherman

    5 videos

  • Basic Drawing with Susan Morris

    2 videos

  • Starting with an Underpainting with Guy Combes

    3 videos

    Guy Combes teaches his technique for beginning an underpainting. He begins with his method for transferring a photo to canvas for beginning the painting. He continues the demonstration by diluting and applying/removing paint in to complete the underpainting.

  • Coloring with Colored Pencil with Janie Gildow

    3 videos

    Join Instructor Janie Gildow as demonstrates the colored pencil.

  • Colored Pencil: Fur & Feathers with Janie Gildow

    6 videos

    Janie Gildow teaches how to draw fur and feathers with colored pencil.

  • Colored Pencil & Ink with Janie Gildow

    7 videos

    Janie Gildow teaches the basics of using Colored Pencil and Ink together.

  • Colored Pencil on Black Paper with Janie Gildow

    4 videos — 2 extras

    Janie Gildow teaches how to use colored pencils on black paper.

  • Watercolor with Rachel Ivanyi

    3 videos

    Learn watercolor with Rachel Ivanyi

  • Drawing with Rachel Ivanyi

    5 videos

    Rachel Invanyi teaches drawing skills.

  • Intro to Adobe Lightroom
    34 videos — 2 extras

    Intro to Adobe Lightroom

    34 videos — 2 extras

    Join Pro Photographer/Educator Jay Pierstorff for this class on Adobe Lightroom. Learn Lightroom’s most useful photo editing tools. Learn what makes Lightroom one of the most powerful photographers’ tools!

  • Intro to Adobe Photoshop Elements

    30 videos — 3 extras

    Videos on these essential tools: Toolbox and Layout, Settings and Preferences, Getting started, The Crop Tool, The Red Eye Tool, Drawing and Painting, Color Sampler, Brush and Eraser Tools, Rectangular and Eliptical Marquee Tools, Transform Selection, Lasso Tools, Magnetic Lasso, Polygonal Lasso,...

  • Intro to Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud Version)

    29 videos — 2 extras

    Jay Pierstorff teaches Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) subscription version.

  • Photoshop Elements: Projects
    13 videos — 1 extra

    Photoshop Elements: Projects

    13 videos — 1 extra

    Go beyond the basics. Learn how to restore old photos, add color to black and white images, get a handle on layers, masks and overlays. Build amazing composite images and more. Each “Project” teaches you a new skill.

  • Photoshop CC: Projects
    13 videos — 1 extra

    Photoshop CC: Projects

    13 videos — 1 extra

    Go beyond the basics. Learn how to restore old photos, add color to black and white images, get a handle on layers, masks and overlays. Build amazing composite images and more. Each “Project” teaches you a new skill.

  • Painterly Photo Techniques
    14 videos — 1 extra

    Painterly Photo Techniques

    14 videos — 1 extra

    Something for everyone in this class, from beginner to advanced, you'll find some new ideas to enhance your photographs with "painterly" values. Some techniques are easy, some are more advanced but all are fun to do try!

  • One Day to Your Own Wix Website

    14 videos — 1 extra

    Join Jay Pierstorff to learn how you can create your own personal or business website using the Wix.com platform in as little as one day!