Introduction to Drawing
12 Week Class | Available
This introductory drawing course is the best way to begin one’s artistic journey. Students will explore observational drawing; learning how to see and experience the world from the artist’s viewpoint. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of drawing including; mark making and quality of line, contour, gesture, tonal drawing and simple perspective. Students will explore a variety of drawing media such as graphite, charcoal, conte and ink. We will work from a range of intriguing subject matter such as the still life, the studio environment, the natural world, as well as the human figure. Classes will be structured combinations of shorter exercises and longer, more developed drawing. The fundamentals of observation are vital to any creative practice.
Base Tuition: $540 + Model Fee: $30 + Material Fee: $20 = $590 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Mark making, quality of line, expressiveness in drawing
- Gesture, contour drawing
- Basic shapes, simple perspective
- Tonal drawing, value scales
- Experimenting with media, exposure to a range of wet and dry media processes
- Introduction to life drawing
- Looking at drawing examples both contemporary art and from art history
Donnely Smallwood
Donnely is a mixed media and installation artist and who has taught adults at the Toronto School of Art since 2001. Using found imagery and text as a starting point, Smallwood transforms a wide range of disparate materials by cutting and rearranging. She is most interested in how collage processes, by isolating and transforming images, work to alter and intensify the reading of the material. Her collage and assemblage fragments come together to form book works, collage drawings and elaborate site-based installations.