Classes

Color & Light: A Four-Day Painting Retreat

Learn to create light, depth, and atmosphere in your painting.

February 23 – 26, 2026
Monday–Thursday, 11 am – 3 pm
Small Group Workshop. Ideal for Advanced Beginners +
Tuition: $640 (includes a light lunch daily)

What makes a painting feel as if it is lit from within?

In this four-day retreat, we’ll explore how painters create the sensation of light through observation, layering, and the relationships that allow color to glow and space to open. Each day introduces a different focus, supported by brief demonstrations, visual references, and generous stretches of painting time.

Working in a small, supportive studio environment, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your work throughout the week while gaining a deeper understanding of how value and color relationships, temperature shifts, brush handling, transparency, and paint mixtures shape the sensation of light in a painting. Students may leave supplies set up in the studio, to allow for ease and a more immersive creative flow.

This retreat offers a calm, focused environment where you can slow down, explore, and connect with the pleasure of painting.

Limited to four participants.
Suggested prerequisite: Language of Painting Level 1 or equivalent experience.

Please email ekundell@gmail.com with any questions and to register for this immersive studio experience.

The Language of Painting: Part 1 – Foundations

An excellent introduction to painting for those who are new or returning.

Thursdays, 6 – 8 pm, March 12 – April 16
(6 weeks; Repeatable)
Small group class format.

Tuition: $420

If you’ve been wanting to paint but aren’t sure where to start, this class is for you! We’ll explore the building blocks of painting—mixing the colors you want to see, handling brushes and materials with greater ease, and playing with the elements of design through fun, bite-sized studies.
You’ll leave with more confidence, a stronger foundation, and the excitement to take your painting further.

The Language of Painting: Part 1 is best for students who are somewhat new to painting, as well as for returning painters looking for a jumpstart in the fundamentals.

In this class, you will:

• Learn how to mix, see, and apply color
• Build fluency with brushes, paint handling and core materials
• Explore the essential elements of design and composition.
• Complete small weekly studies to practice fundamentals.
• Strengthen your foundation so you can step into more ambitious projects.

Please email ekundell@gmail.com to register for this class and receive the supply list. You may secure your spot via check, Venmo (@ekundell), Zelle or Paypal (ekundell@gmail.com).

Next Session: March 12 – April 16

The Language of Painting: Part 2 – Color & Composition

An ongoing class to help you gain confidence in painting, with guided projects in a small group setting.

Tuesdays, 3 – 6 pm, March 10 – April 14
(6 weeks; Ongoing)

Tuition: $480

Create your own original paintings inspired by the works of great artists. Expand your painting skills, deepen your understanding of color relationships, and learn compositional strategies that help your paintings feel more alive and cohesive.

In this ongoing class, you will:

• Learn how to create more dynamic paintings with depth, rhythm and visual flow
• Develop a stronger command of color and create emotional resonance
• Work intentionally with surface and layers – brushwork, transparency and revision – to handle paint more expressively
• Build fluency in seeing and discussing abstraction, learning how to recognize what’s happening in your painting and what it needs next
• Apply core principles of design to strengthen and clarify your compositions
• Bring ideas to life through projects that support experimentation and growth

The Language of Painting: Part 2 is for Advanced Beginner and Intermediate students who want to improve their painting and compositional skills with guided projects in a supportive community of peers.
Suggested prerequisite: The Language of Painting Part 1 or equivalent experience.

5 spaces available.
Please email ekundell@gmail.com with any questions and to register for this class.

You may secure your spot via check, Venmo (@ekundell), Zelle or Paypal (ekundell@gmail.com).
Image: Joan Mitchell, Weeds, 1976

Please Note: this class is currently a Level 1/2 hybrid class.

The Language of Painting: Part 3 – Creating Your Body of Work

An ongoing class in color, abstraction and developing your unique voice.

Mondays, 11 am – 2 pm, March 9 – April 13
(6-week session; Ongoing)
2 spaces currently available.

Tuition: $480

This artist mentorship group supports students in developing confidence and skill as they create a new body of work.

Through teachings on the interaction of color, brushwork, composition and abstraction, and with thoughtful individualized guidance in a small group setting, students will grow their ability to make more meaningful, expressive and unique work.

The Language of Painting: Part 3 is for Intermediate or Advanced students who want to create artwork that is more personally meaningful, and who want to grow a body of work in a small and supportive community of peers.

Students may enroll concurrently in Levels 2 and 3. Please email ekundell@gmail.com with any questions and to confirm space availability.
You may secure your spot via check, Venmo (@ekundell), Zelle or Paypal (ekundell@gmail.com).

Image: Freeform, ©Elana Kundell, 2021

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Exploring Abstraction
One-Day Painting Workshop

Saturday, March 21, 2026, 11am – 5pm
$280 includes a light lunch

There are many ways to look at and communicate through abstraction. In this one-day painting retreat, we will begin to explore different modes of abstraction with plenty of hands on painting.

For Adventurous Beginner students +

Limited space. Class is customized for students. Please email ekundell@gmail.com to be included on the waiting list.

Painting with Pizzazz

A fun and accessible Sunday brunch-time workshop where you’ll experiment with simple techniques to create your own original painting. Each session brings a different theme and new techniques to try, with all materials provided! No experience needed.

Upcoming themes:
January – Mark-making
February – Creating a Sense of Space
March – Movement

Three Workshops this Winter
Sundays, 11 – 1 pm

Dates: Jan. 25, Feb. 8, March 15, 11 am – 1 pm
Tuition: $95 per class (Basic materials included)
Students may sign up for one, two or all three sessions.

All levels welcome.

Please email ekundell@gmail.com to register.

Create Your Personal Color Palette

In this exciting, fun class for adults, we explore the interdependent nature of color and its ability to evoke mood and emotion.

• Gain confidence in color mixing
• Learn how to express mood through color
• Use your tools with greater self-expression
• Deepen your understanding of painting

All levels welcome.

Please email ekundell@gmail.com to be included on the waiting list.

Connect & Create

Desperate times called for creative measures.
In the early days of the pandemic, Spring and Summer of 2020, we gathered online for creative nourishment, community and co-working time. All sessions began with improvisational play in a variety of media and topics, from poetry and paint to performance.