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Paint Like Van Gogh - Starry Night - NEW!


Courses Adult / Create -
CE Adult Fall 2025

In this class you will be creating an acrylic painting on an 8 x 10 inch canvas in the style of famous Post-Impressionist painter Van Gogh. You will learn a bit of history about him and his and his involvement with the Impressionist movement as you recreate his famous painting Starry Night.

Vanessa Merry

Instructor Vanessa Merry moved to Florence, Italy at the age of eighteen to study the methods of the great masters in painting, drawing, and printmaking at Palazzo Spinelli. From here she continued her education and exploration of the human-figure, still-lifes, and landscapes at Atelier de Chimere in France were she enjoyed Plein-Aire painting in the French countryside.She moved back to the United States were she attended and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Visual Arts and Art History.

She has been actively involved in the Twin Cities art scene for many years. Vanessa Merry has won several awards for her paintings in local galleries. She was the President of the Robbin Gallery in Robbinsdale, Minnesota and is currently on the staff of WARM (Women's Art Resources of MN).

Vanessa currently enjoys creating works of art in many different styles, but finds herself happiest when she is in the classroom teaching others all the skills that she has aquired in her studies.

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  Vanessa Merry


Diamondhead Education Center : Room 1034G, enter door 11
Tuesday, Sep 16
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Min Age   15 yr.

Price: $ 45 00