upcoming Adult Classes & Workshops
All Westport Art Group classes are open to both members and nonmembers, but for adult classes, current members receive a 20% discount at checkout with code -unless otherwise listed.
OCTOBER
Who Can Resist Nature? Especially Nests. A One day Watercolor Workshop with Instructor Betsey MacDonald. Saturday, October 3, 10am to 2pm.
Creating Glowing Color in Oils & Acrylics. A 4 week Painting Class with Barbara Healy. Tuesdays, October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2026 9am-12pm
Tall Ships Drawing - Monday Drawing - A 6 Week class with Instructor Jackie William. Mondays, Oct 12-Nov 16, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Let Your Life Speak: A Writing Workshop facilitated by Sarah W. Bartlett. Sunday, October 18, 10 am to 2 pm. Register on the Poetry page by Oct. 15.
ongoing classes
Figure Drawing on Wednesdays! Join the 9 am group at WAG. See dates and details below.
Weekly Painting - Thursdays. New outdoor location every week! We paint from 9-11:45, then have a friendly but informative group critique. See below for details!
WAG Poetry Group. Meetings twice a month! See the Poetry page for details!
Tall Ships Drawing CLASS
Monday Drawing
A 6 Week class with Instructor Jackie William
Mondays, Oct 12-Nov 16, 9:30am - 12:30pm
This 6 week Drawing class will focus on the Tall Ships that graced our waters over the summer for our country's 250th Birthday Celebration. We will be focusing on light and shadow, angles, values, shading, and adding figures. Minimal rigging required! Instructor is Jackie William jacklynawilliam@gmail.com.
Supplies:
Value Scale
Drawing paper, good quality, no smaller than 11x14
A variety of graphite pencils in black and one white
Variety of erasers (small round Tombow eraser is very helpful)
Tortillion, q-tips, chamois if you have already
Small pencil sharpener, exacto, or sandpaper
Ruler
$170- All are welcome, Westport Art Group members receive a 20% Discount. Class max 12, register early.
Mondays, Oct 12-Nov 16, 9:30am - 12:30pm
WAG MEMBERS GET 20% OFF! Enter the Discount Code MEMBER during the checkout process to receive your discount!
Go to your cart to check out.
WEDNESDAY MORNING FIGURE CLASS
Drawing by Janice Thurston.
Nude model at WAG on Wednesday mornings from 9 am - noon.
Fees are $50 a month for four-week months, and $60 a month for five-week months. Single session drop-in fee is $20, payable at the session.
Please contact Abigail Test for more information. abigailtest@gmail.com
Thursday Painting
Artwork by Barbara Healy
Thursdays
9 am to 12 pm
Plein Air Spring through Fall…
Class paints plein air from mid-May through mid-October at wonderful locations on the South Coast. Sign up to receive the Thursday class locations here: Sign Up Form. This mailing list is also used for you to be alerted of any changes. Be sure to check your email before you leave Thursday mornings.
We paint from 9-11:45, then have a friendly but informative critique.
Inclement weather: meet at the studio - 1740 Main Rd, Westport Point. $5 fee when inside and no instructor. $15 with instructor.
Participating outdoors: free when there is no instructor. We will have an instructor occasionally with a fee of $15. Our classes have informal coaching when we have an instructor, also ending with a friendly critique.
No registration. Please pay cash or check at class. Non-members can try a class, but ongoing participation is for members only.
Email Barbara Healy at edlundhealy@gmail.com for more information.
Barbara Healy
Creating Glowing Color in Oils & Acrylics
A 4 week Painting Class with Barbara Healy
Tuesdays, October 6, 13, 20, 27, 2026 9am-12pm
UPDATE: CLASS IS FULL. To join a waiting list, please send an email to info@westportartgroup.com.
Join award-winning painter Barbara Healy to explore working with an underpainting to plan composition and create a landscape with vibrant color in oils, adapted for acrylics. We will explore 2 approaches: creating an acrylic underpainting notan and a value grisaille.
We will look at brushwork or mark-making to find what’s important t to your painting subject, eliminating unnecessary detail, training yourself to be decisive and learning not to overwork a painting.
Artists can work in acrylic but demos will be in oil.
Max 10 students. Please see materials list. Download a copy here.
4 week class- $130. All are welcome, WAG members receive a 20% discount. Register below. Questions, please send an email to: info@westportartgroup.com.
Artwork by Barbara Healy
Pictures from
Line & Wash Watercolor Batik on Kinwashi Paper taught by Peter Turner on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
For Youth Education and Outreach, including scholarships, please see Youth.
Cancellation Policy effective Sept. 1, 2021
Classes, Workshops and Demonstrations:
All classes and demonstrations will be paid in full at time of registration, except classes that are attended on a walk-in basis (when such are available).
If a student withdraws at least 2 weeks prior to the class beginning, a full refund will be given, minus a $10 processing fee. Any cancellations later than 2 weeks prior will not be refunded, except for a documented medical or family emergency, unless the spot is filled from a waiting list. In that case a 75% refund will be given.
Any classes cancelled by the Westport Art Group for any reason will be refunded in full.
Please see the Youth page for Summer Camp and other Children’s Programs cancellation policy.
Any deviation from this policy will require a majority vote of the Westport Art Group Executive Board.