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Palette Knife Paint-Along Class "Barn"

  • Big East Fork Retreat 5375 Big East Fork Road Franklin, TN, 37064 United States (map)

Palette Knife Paint-Along Class "Barn"

Unleash your inner artist and join us October 13 at 6:30 for a painting evening in Franklin, TN, at Big East Fork Retreat Center. You’ll learn new painting skills, meet creative friends, have a great time, and leave with a beautiful masterpiece that you painted. 

Class fee of $45 includes instructions and all supplies. We’ll paint with a palette knife using acrylic paints that clean up easily with water. 

Beginners are welcomed and encouraged. 
Reservations are required, (615) 599-4006 or http://conta.cc/2ceUOEP

Instructor is Susan Jones
Susan is a very active art instructor, teaching both children and adults in a variety of settings; on-going classes, evening or afternoon paint-along parties, private lessons, and one- and two-day workshops. Most of her classes benefit worthy non-profits in her home town of Columbia, Tennessee, including Friends of Maury County Parks, Spring Hill Parks, Pet Pals of Maury County, The Family Center, The Athenaeum Rectory, and aMuse’um Children’s Museum, just to name a few. A portion of the fees for her commissioned pet portraits benefit three local animal rescues: Pet Pals of Maury County, Snooty Giggles Dog Rescue, and Russell Rescue.

Later Event: October 22
Plein Air Oil Painting Workshop

The CSS logo of three leaves represents the three pillars of our organization:

Stewardship of the Land -

We protect our watershed, pastures, soil, and forests so we may receive their many blessings.

We do unto downstream as we would have upstream do unto us.

We identify and invest in watershed rural lands to place forest and farmland in the hands of the next generation of stewards.


Stewardship of Others -

We provide safety, resources, support, and encouragement to those around us.

We contribute financial reserves, food to our food bank, or work in our community..

We provide and support education to the future stewards of our various overlapping communities.

Stewardship of Self -

We cultivate our own physical, mental, and spiritual health

We communicate with intention, to understand and uplift.

We treasure our creativity and give ourselves time and place in which to play.