• AVAILABLE MONDAY thru SATURDAY
• tile & glass mosaics (2-day class)
• stain glass windows & decor
• drawing w/ gesso & charcoal
• painting in oil & acrylic
• collage w/ prints, fabric, paintings
• printing w/ Griffin Etching Press
• bookmaking & binding
• DISCOUNTED Group Rates Available
• DISCOUNTED All-Day Rates Available
• All art materials are provided
• All art classes are designed for professionals, as well as, the beginning hobbyist, 6 - 100 years of age!
• Art classes instructed by Gretchen Grunt, Anna Houghton & Doug Whitfield
• Contact Gretchen: (760)361-1805 gretchen9@verizon.net  to arrange an art class to fit your schedule.

Description of Art Classes
NEW! Stain Glass Creating dazzling stain glass designs using copper foil and lead-free solder. All the necessary tools and stain glass are at your disposal during your instructed class. Doug also offers custom stain glass design for a site specific location to decorate your home or office.
Mosaic Madness Create your very own stepping stone, picture frame, table top, bowling ball,... out of bits-n-pieces of tile, found objects and opaque glass. The mosaic class takes 2 days to allow drying time: 1st DAY: design and glue pieces down. 2nd DAY: custom color your grout and fill your mosaic, and within minutes you'll leave with a work of art!
NEW! The Altered Book Turning an existing book into a transformational work of art using endless types of materials: fabric, paper images, photos, found objects, acrylic paints, colored pencils, pastels, yarns, hand made papers,...
NEW! The Artist's Book Gretchen Grunt recently attended Idyllwild Arts where she was instructed by a master book artist, Laura Wait. Eager to share her new knowledge, Gretchen will show you how to set colorfulmediums free with primitive printmaking, writing & painting techniques to create a one-of-a-kind handmade book using the leather strap or the raised cord sewing methods.
Collage Painting With a collection of handmade papers and paper images (newspaper, photos, magazine,...) learn how to incorporate collage elements into your acrylic or oil painting on a canvas board, creating dramatic compostions.
Collaged Monotypes Another way to use flat images, handmade papers, and any other flat objects (no wider than 1/8") is to see how instant-gratification-make-you-feel-good monotype printing on an etching press can become a multi-dimensional interwoven mixture of depth, designs and color.
Bookbinding with a Griffin Etching Press  This is an excellent introduction to printmaking for the beginning printmaker and those with crafty hands. We will explore four different non-acid processes to create the pages. Then bind them to create a book of prints that is great for a personal treasure or to give away to a loved one!
Monotype Prints is an excellent place for the beginning printmaker to start  learning how to work with colors, stencils, viscosity inks and more on a plexiglas plate. Monotype printmaking is a non-acid "INSTANT-GRATIFICATION-MAKE-YOU-FEEL-GOOD-ART-MAKING" process that allows wonderfulspontaneous results. You paint with inks onto a blank plate and then run the plate through one of our exquisite Griffin Etching Presses to create your own one-of-a-kind monotype print on Arches 88 printmaking paper.
Relief Prints  involves using either a linoleum or wood plate to cut your image into the surface, inking the surface and either spooning or using the pressure of the etching press to create your relief print on printmaking paper.
Reductive Linoleum Cut Prints is a unique process in relief printing, where the plate and print evolve together as each plate is carved into more and more, and proofs are printed along the way in different colors. The result is rich in texture and depth like no other printmaking process. Gretchen offers either easy-to-cut safety lino blocks or for the more controlling artist, the golden linoleum that is harder to cut but gives you more exact lines.
Holiday Greeting Cards
Spend the day at the Creative Center working with your hands to print original greeting cards using Strathmore Deckled Creative Cards. You will design four different images, using any of the processes described below, envelopes included. Then you can send your one-of-a-kind cards to your loved ones for holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions!
Drypoint Prints involves a plexiglass plate where you draw with an etching needle to scratch your drawing into the plexiglass, ink your scratches and run the plate through the etching press.
Etching is an involved process where you use a zinc plate. An image is created on the plate using contact paper or bees wax. After completing your image we use the Edinburgh Etch to bite your image into the zinc plate, then ink up and finally print your plate using the etching press.
Collagraph Prints are an excellent printmaking process for those who don't care to draw, but have en eye for finding the most interesting objects on your travels. Discover how your coins, mesh, cloth, vegetation, and many other everyday objects can become interactive collages by attaching your objects to a cardboard plate, then paint and roll up the attached objects with ink to run your inked plate through the Griffin Etching Press and see the inspiring results of the object curious "halo-like" outlines, depth and unsuspecting textures.
Collagraph Modeling Paste Prints  involves the use of acyrlic paste spread onto a plate. Before the paste hardens you draw, scratch and move the paste into shapes and textures. Then you cover in ink, wipe and print on the Griffin Etching Press.

Examples Located on the Sample page