​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 recognize and organize 2-D shapes on the paper or canvas,

• 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.

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. @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}@font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Cambria",serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;}

Rules of the road for sketching:

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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