Art Workshops &
Classes for Adults
Develop your creative voice.
Is this you?
Feeling creative, but not sure where to begin?
Want to make art, but wish you had more skills and confidence?
Finally have time for yourself and your creativity, but need a little guidance to get started?
You're in the right place!
I started teaching art because I wanted to offer the kind of welcoming, supportive learning experience I couldn't find when I began my own creative practice in my late 40s.
Today, I teach beginner-friendly drawing, watercolor, illustration, and modern calligraphy classes for adults throughout the Portland, Oregon region, including Beaverton, Hillsboro, Clackamas, and Hood River. My workshops combine practical skills, creative exploration, and plenty of encouragement to help you build confidence—without losing the joy.
Let's make more art—together! 🎨
Upcoming Art Workshops
Imagine 2027: Creative Planning Through Mixed-Media Art
Imagine what you want to create, cultivate, and move toward in 2027. Through guided visioning and mixed-media art, you’ll clarify your ideas and create a meaningful visual composition using images, words, color, found objects, and ephemera.
Illustrate a Fall Leaf in Colored Pencils
Celebrate Halloween—and the golden colors of fall—at Hoyt Arboretum! In this colorful nature-inspired workshop, we’ll explore the many shades of orange found in autumn leaves using colored pencils. Learn simple techniques for layering, blending, shading, and building rich color. Beginners welcome!
Words as Art: Modern Calligraphy Level 2
Take your modern calligraphy practice further by connecting letters into expressive words and phrases. Explore spacing, rhythm, flourishes, and composition to create lettering with personality and meaning. Hosted by Tokki Art Supply in Hood River.
Drawing with Letters: Modern Calligraphy Level I
Learn modern calligraphy as a form of drawing. Explore expressive strokes, letterforms, rhythm, and shape in this supportive beginner workshop—no perfect handwriting required. Hosted by Tokki Art Supply in Hood River, Oregon.
Beyond the Brush: Watercolor Texture Lab
Get experimental with watercolor! Explore masking fluid, salt, rubbing alcohol, wax resist, stamping, and even Halloween webbing to create surprising textures and effects. Complete beginners welcome.
Color Theory for Creative Practice
Color can completely change the mood, meaning, and feeling of a piece of art. In this full-day workshop, you’ll learn approachable, practical color theory tools you can bring into your own creative practice.
Together, we’ll explore the color wheel, warm and cool colors, value, tint, shade, color harmonies, and color mixing. You’ll leave with hand-painted color studies for future reference and a clearer sense of how to choose and use color with confidence.
Open to all skill levels and useful for artists working in any medium.
Create Your Own Illustrated Travel Journal - on the Oregon Coast!
Tired of journaling? Try Illustrated Journaling instead! Whether your travels take you abroad, to the park or just to your backyard, this workshop is for you! Learn how to create illustrated journals of the things you see, taste and experience. This is a two-day workshop at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology on the Oregon coast.
What I Teach
Create your own Illustrated Journal
Messy Sketching for Recovering Perfectionists
Drawing 101: mark-making, shapes, and dimension
Modern Calligraphy:
Drawing with Letters: level 1
Words as Art: level 2
Watercolor Texture Lab
Signs of Protest: Creating effective protest art
Botanical Illustration
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Feedback from workshop students and hosts
“You are very engaging, encouraging, and super positive!”
“I love the carefree, low pressure environment that makes art accessible to me as a beginner.”
“ Thank you for making art simple and accessible.”
“ Molly’s teaching techniques were the best I’ve ever experienced.”
- Workshop participants
“Molly’s workshop was incredible! She was so patient with everyone and welcoming to participants of all skill levels. She kindly answered every question and took the time to provide individual feedback on each person’s work. She is incredibly thoughtful and detail-oriented, and it was clear how much care and dedication she put into preparing the class and materials. She even brought her own speaker and music to help us focus during the creative process. Everyone was so happy with the experience, and we all wished we could have had more time with her. We would absolutely love to take another workshop with Molly!”
- Erika, group art class host
Art learning partners
I work with several venues around the Northwest to offer art workshops.
Want me to come teach in your area?
Send me a message and I will be happy to follow up.
Workshop Gallery
Botanical Illustration workshop at Oregon Art Center in Portland, Or.
Botanical Illustration workshop in Hood River
Illustrated Journal workshop in Portland
Illustrated Journal workshop at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Oregon Coast
Drawing Basics workshop in Clackamas
Watercolor workshop in Hood River
Watercolor Basics, private group workshop in Portland
Refund policy
For workshops hosted by me: If you cannot attend a class, a 72 hour notice prior to the start of the class via email is required for a full refund of the class fee. After that there is no refund.
For workshops hosted by another venue, the refund policy of that organization applies.