Heather Baker will instruct students on the basics of doodling using patterns, shapes, lines, and whatever else you can doodle on small squares of drawing paper. I will provide the paper and pens, you provide your imagination. Let’s have a little fun making little squares of art.

Let’s give ourselves some spring fever! Join Heather Baker at the Wren’s Nest for an acrylic paint workshop. We will be painting a 12” x 16’ canvas of a bike with a basket full of flowers. Heather will supply everything you need, just bring yourself.

Heather Baker is back in the Wren's Nest to teach us some new painting techniques before the holidays. $35, acrylic on canvas. Space is limited, so email Jane to save your spot.

12 x 12 interior wood panel, choice of 2 designs.

Come celebrate spring by making magical faerie doors at the Wren’s Nest!

Let’s pour some paint — no experience necessary! Learn how to have fun with acrylic pour painting. This is a simple way of creating your own “one of a kind” piece of art.

Create a set of four ceramic coasters with alcohol ink.

Create a spring basket barn quilt on a 12x12 interior wood panel with Jane!

Come join artist, Jacque Minarik to learn about encaustic! Encaustic originates from the Greek word Enkaiein, meaning to burn in, referring to the process of fusing paint and wax.

Create a set of four ceramic coasters using alcohol ink.

Bluebirds or Bloom on 12 x 12 interior wood panel

Create a sunflower painting on 12x16 canvas with Heather Baker

*All Wren's Nest profits for this event will go to UNICEF, earmarked for Ukraine humanitarian aid.

Make a beautiful collage featuring wildflowers!

Collage is easy, fun, and satisfying, and there are no rules to collage. BUT Susanna will give you some tips and help you with your design to create something at the end of the session you love to frame and hang up at home.

Make a beautiful collage featuring wildflowers! Collage is easy, fun, and satisfying, and there are no rules to collage. BUT Susanna will give you some tips and help you with your design to create something at the end of the session you love to frame and hang up at home.

Create a beautiful flower painting using alcohol ink on synthetic paper! This is a beginner art course for those who want to develop their skills with alcohol ink. You will learn:

• The basics of alcohol ink

• How to use alcohol inks on Yupo paper in a fun and unique way

• Use a gel pen and or a sharpie to supplement your painting with design details

Come to the Wren’s Nest for another unique acrylic painting workshop with Artist Heather Baker! Heather will lead us through painting a 12x16 canvas full of winter birch trees.

Come join artist, Jacque Minarik to learn about encaustic! Encaustic originates from the Greek word Enkaiein, meaning to burn in, referring to the process of fusing paint and wax. Let's have fun together learning about this exciting art form. We will experiment heating wax, resin, and pigment to create a unique painting. Explore encaustic for the first time or expand your skills.

The layering of encaustic paint produces luminous and textured surfaces. Feel free to bring a copied image to add to the layering process for collage or just experiment blending and mixing the wax and pigment to create an abstract piece of art.

What would YOU do with 9 beautiful 4x4 inch squares?

9 am until you finish — Paint, Mod Podge, glitter...no rules Message me to save a spot. 12 x 12-inch canvas. Cookies (hey Julie), coffee or cocoa.

Bring a friend for a couple of hours of fun at the Wren’s Nest! Take home a 10x10 barn quilt star with a quote of your choosing—hand write it yourself or have it lettered.

*This event is now full.*