Banana Tree Studios offers class instructions in ceramics, watercolors and oils.

• All classes are open to beginners as well as advanced students.

• Classes are for 8 weeks, meeting once a week for 2 1/2 hours.

• There must be 5 students registered for the class.

• Cost is $110.

Banana Tree Studios offers you a peaceful and supportive work environment where you can freely express your creative talents. Those with little or no experience are welcome as well as advanced students. Ken Macht has over twenty years experience in ceramics. He will show you how to use the wheel and instruct you in the exciting technique of wheel throwing. Classes are held in our fully equipped studio and limited to six to enhance the development and advancement of each students' throwing skills. You will learn all aspects of creating your ceramic piece. You will create forms by hand using slab rolling, coiling and pinching techniques. Attention is focused on how clay can be shaped, manipulated and decorated to create both functional and decorative works of art. You will also experience a Raku firing. This process focuses on techniques that relate to the ancient Japanese method. The pieces go into a reduction chamber filled with a combustible material. The glazing is dependent on the amount of oxygen the glaze pulls out of the burning material. Classes are held in 8-week sessions in the spring, fall and winter. The cost is $110 for 2 1/2 hours each week. Because classes are small and limited to 6 students it is necessary to register and send a deposit.

Banana Tree Studios offers you a peaceful and supportive work environment where you can freely express your creative talents. Those with little or no experience are welcome as well as advanced students. Kim McKisson has over ten years experience as a watercolorist and teacher. Classes are structured and the watercolor techniques of glazing, wet into wet and dry brush are taught as well as various techniques for creating texture and masking to save the white of the paper. Successful watercolors require preplanning through black and white value studies and this is taught along with improving drawing skills. Successful paintings also employ the use of design and composition and these elements are also taught. Classes are held in 8-week sessions in the spring, fall and winter. The cost is $110 for 2 1/2 hours each week. Because classes are small and limited to 6 students it is necessary to register and send a deposit.

If you have never painted in oils this is a good beginning class. Michael Wagner is a retired art teacher from the Mason County School District. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Art Education and a Master's in Painting from Morehead State University. This basic painting class is planned for both beginners and intermediate students. Students will learn paint application, color mixing, selection and use of brushes and other tools. The subject matter will be still life or photographs.