UPCOMING
SHOWS
Stairwell Show: Oil and Cold Wax Paintings
Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Oregon Coast at Cascade Head
May thru September 2025
Artist-in-Residence and Show: FEARLESS FACES
Salem, OR
Residency September 2025
Focus Gallery Show October 2025
Reception and Art Talk: Saturday, October 4 at 2:00 pm
Classes taught by Dayna Collins:
ONLINE CLASSES WITH DAYNA
No current online classes are scheduled.
IN PERSON CLASSES WITH DAYNA COLLINS
Fearless Faces
Saturday, September 27, 2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration through Salem Art Association
Using prompts, warm-ups, and lots of art materials, Dayna will guide everyone through loose drawing and painting to create Fearless Faces. This workshop will be a fast-paced, lively day of artmaking, with a focus on color, abstraction, and pushing limits.
Taking a Line for a Walk
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Registration through Art Department
Join me for a day of playing with paint and drawing lines into and on top of our abstract painted surfaces. Using 8x8 inch squares of watercolor paper as our substrate, we will paint a series of abstracted landscapes or just loose and free abstracts using acrylic paint. We will draw a variety of lines: thick, thin, straight, stuttery, arching, and curvy using various mixed media materials (crayons, pens, markers ….). We will work fast, we will work slow, we might even close our eyes and let ourselves get lost in our lines. Color is the name of the game but so is pushing ourselves to move beyond our first impulse, making lines and marks that are both familiar and unfamiliar. By the end of the day, you will have a series of delightful small paintings ready for an 8x8 inch frame.
My art can be viewed on this website and at the following galleries:
Portland, Oregon
Astoria, Oregon
Salem, Oregon
The Independence, a Trace Hotel
Independence, Oregon
Dundee, Oregon
