I mostly teach drawing and painting objects in relationship to each other: people, landscapes, or still-life. Not because it’s a higher form of art but because it’s how I learned to draw and paint and how I teach.
How to turn 2-D shapes into simple 3-D forms using shading, then crafting the different forms together into complex forms
How to use a diversity of tools and materialsHow to create space
How to mix colors and basic color principals
An awareness of movements and rhythm within the subject and between the elements
That the guidelines for creating abstract art are the same as for realismThat it's important to copy
That vocabulary matters
Workshop classes are $75 per class or $210 for all 3 lessons
Workshop classes are $75 per class or $210 for all 3 lessons
"Learning To Draw" will be 3 Wednesday mornings: 9/22, 9/28, and 10/5, 9:30 - 12:30.
This class will introduce beginning students to the materials,
techniques and different styles of
drawing. Using demonstrations with still-life, followed by individual and group
critiques, students will learn a framework for how to create a drawing:
descriptive mark-making, blending and shading, value, shapes, form and
composition. We will also get to know the tools of the trade: brushes, mediums,
surfaces, and concepts.
Drawing can be learned. Learning to coordinate the eye, the mind and the hand to respond
in unison to visual stimuli is simpler than it may sound. As
long as mistakes are not going to stop someone from trying again, I can help
them learn the skills needed to make challenging and gratifying drawings.
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Workshop classes are $75 per class or $210 for all 3 lessons
"Sketch-Booking" will be 3 Wednesday mornings: 9/22, 9/28, and 10/5, 9:30 - 12:30.
Sketch-booking
is the activity of filling sketchbooks with drawings of life, from life.
Learning to draw is learning to see, and anything and everything going on
around us and in front of us is our subject.
We
have 2 goals for the class: finding the beautiful in wherever we are and
discovering that the process of seeing and drawing is just as important and
more fun than trying to create a "finished drawing".
We'll
use materials that can fit easily into a pocketbook, satchel or a large jacket
pocket: pencils, pens, erasures, and if you're using brushes and inks,
you’ll need a small container for water.
We’ll
start each class with a few quick lessons, where I’ll demonstrate techniques to
develop greater eye/hand/mind coordination and teach you how to practice
capturing the likeness and the spirit of a place or a scene.
We’ll visit public places to draw where we can watch and draw without
attracting undue attention to ourselves like parks, coffee shops and diners,
libraries, museums, tourist attractions, even cemeteries.
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Loosen up – Let
your hand and pencil wander and meander for your first drawings of the
day.
Understand
that the process of drawing often matters more than a finished drawing -
Do not be
concerned with perfect or “right”: they don’t exist.
Seeing is the important
thing.
Keep your
materials list small- You want to be sure
that you can carry and access them easily.
Embrace
randomness - We are seldom given perfect compositions or
subject matter so draw the
imperfect ones you are given.
Experiment
with materials – Pencil, pen, ink or
watercolor? Black, white or red? You decide.
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