Join artist Carl Stoveland and share your love of art and nature with fellow art enthusiasts! This class is for adults only. Bring your pencils, pens, paints sketchpad or watercolor pad, (or journal) and your favorite photographic device (i.e., cell phone camera or tablet). Some experience is preferred. True beginners should consider the Thursday beginners class. Each week or two we start a new painting project. Time will be split between demos by Carl and supervised painting time working on your projects. Painting subjects will be chosen by Carl with assistance from the class.

Carl Stoveland is an artist and photographer living and working in Lake Worth Beach. Carl is a founding Member of the Lake Worth Beach Urban Sketchers group and was 2020 Artist in residence at Dry Tortugas National Park where he and another artist lived off the grid entirely creating art and photography for the entire month of September. One of Carl’s previous projects was the photo documentary exhibits IAMLAKEWORTH and IAMLAKEWORTHTOO that were displayed at the Hatch in 2018 and 2019. Carl was managing partner at Gallery Meraki in Garnerville, NY from 2014 to 2016 where he exhibited his own work as well as taught workshops in Photography and Photoshop. His current passions are watercolor and acrylic painting and Urban Sketching. Carl grew up in New York near the Catskill Mountains and found his passion for photography and painting hiking along the many trails and streams near his home. His dad spent his entire career working in photo labs and his mom is an oil painter and watercolorist. So the apple didn’t fall far from the tree!

$20 for members; $25 for nonmembers; includes full Garden admission
Registration is required; class size is limited to 15 adults; classes are nonrefundable.