Master Artist E.J. Gold is offering watercolor, drawing, charcoal, fine-art scrapbooking and wand-making classes in local Grass Valley California venues: the Ben Franklin Classroom and The Herb Shop. The two-hour classes are open to all skill levels and are small, allowing for much personal attention and instruction.

Students are stunned by Gold's keen ability to get rapid and competent results from his classes. "I can't believe how much I have learned -- and in only two hours!" -- Shelley McKinley, Penn Valley, California

Asked why he's doing these classes, Gold stated: "It's to pay back the teachers who taught me. I want to honor their memory and to pass onto others what was taught to me, so their contributions to art will live on."

Gold studied art with Bentley Schaad, Charles White III, Rico LeBrun, Bob Glover and Bill Enking at Otis Art Institute, and later went on to instruct at Otis himself.