Full course description
Painting with the Masters
4/10-5/1/2026, Thursdays, 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: ONLINE
Instructor: Tami Tsark
This course will help you appreciate some of your favorite “master” painters; study and copy paintings from different time periods; and match some original elements but learn to make them your own. Our studies will include classic and contemporary artists from different eras. We will follow in the well-established tradition of learning to appreciate and reproduce some of the things that make paintings great.This class is open to beginning and continuing students.
Instructor Bio: Tami S. Tsark is a painter, educator, and media producer. She is a working artist with work exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Tami infuse her love of motion, from her background as a competitive ice skater, into her imagery. Themes that are of most interest are dream-states, persistent knowledge and/or the transfer of emotion from historical or perceived events to new hosts. Plainly put, she loves to incorporate reclaimed objects and complex surfaces and explore their new affect using video or paint. Tami has been teaching art since 2017. She’s taught privately, globally, and at several institutions, including the Schulz Museum, College of Marin, Sharon Art at San Francisco Rec & Park, and Oxford Day Academy. A graduate of the UCLA Film and TV Program, Ms. Tsark has worked as an executive producer at several educational software and Internet companies (including Broderbund/Random House. McGraw-Hill, Leapfrog, Knowledge Adventure, 415 Productions, Hewlett Packard.) She has also worked as a Post-Production Supervisor for animated television series, Rugrats and The Simpsons. In her other professional life, she works as Projects’ Director and in involved in all aspects of production and business development.