Our first Art on the Island of the year! It's only appropriate to celebrate with one of our favorite parts of the experience: the Sternwheel boat. The image will be ready to paint and Tracy will show you how to use acrylics to get this soft watercolor look on paper and then finish with a frame, ready to hang. Take the noon boat and bring any food or drink that you would like.

Date: Sunday May 19th, take the noon ferry from Point Park

Cost: $42 includes boat ride and instruction (no discount).

Join Tracy and come create this adorable and fun 7"x5" canvas of strawberry fields and a sunset, with 3D wooden strawberries, an optional green basket - all put together into a mini shadowbox. Take the noon boat and bring any food or drink that you would like.

Date: Sunday June 9th, take the noon boat.

Cost: $42 includes boat ride and instruction (no discount).

Join local photographer Michelle Waters for an interactive photography lesson and nature walk on Blennerhassett Island! We'll start the class with a brief overview of different ways to make your close-up (macro) nature photography shine, then take a walk around the island and put our new skills to use. Class begins at 2:00. Last boat leaves the island at 4:30. 

Date: Sunday, June 30th, Take the 1:00 boat to the island

Cost: $42 includes boat ride and instruction (no discount).

Join local artist Michelle Waters as she shares ways to turn nature into art supplies. Paint using foraged weeds and wildflowers as brushes, add shades of brown with walnut inks, stain with pressed flowers and plants, add texture with dirt, add colorful accents with crushed berries and anything else Michelle might find on the Island that day. Class begins at 2:00. Last boat leaves the island at 4:30. 

Date: Sunday, July 7th, take the 1:00 boat

Cost: $42 includes boat ride and instruction (no discount).

A favorite from last year, Tracy will show you how to do a paint scraped background, 3D cattails, and a 3D dragonfly floating on plexiglass, completed with a frame. Take the noon boat and bring any food or drink that you would like.

Date: Sunday July 14th, take the noon boat.

Cost: $42 includes boat ride and instruction (no discount).