Drawing the Everyday
10 Week Class | Available
In this course, we will be representing our ideas about our everyday activities, and doing this through a variety of material drawing techniques. These processes, blind contour drawing, erasure drawing and working with (dip) pen and ink as well as collage, are key techniques that are evocative and help enrich students’ drawing repertoire. Each week we’ll look at our everyday theme and investigate iterations with these processes. We will discuss one another’s work as well as artists working with similar strategies.
Taking a conceptual approach to what is everyday in our lives, we will look at what it means to be engaging in ‘everyday practices’ and how our daily routines can inform our art work. The everyday subject matter could include daily commutes, regular tasks, or sites, such as one’s work space or a view. Here we can take on a conceptual theme that will look different for each student and investigate different treatments in drawing. This is an introductory level course that can expand on a current drawing practice or be used as a way to create a new drawing project.
Note: There will be no class on Tuesday, March 11th, class ends on Tuesday, April 1st.
Base Tuition: $480.00 + Material Fee: $7 = $487 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Several simple key drawing techniques
- Conceptual thinking about material drawing processes
- Mark making techniques that can be experimental
- Using the sketchbook as a environment for sustained drawing
- Working in series
- Working with and discussing multiple iterations on everyday subjects in drawing
Kyla Brown
Kyla is a Toronto based artist, educator and writer, pedestrian and mother. She/they work in a project driven practice that includes the labour of care work, community based projects, subtle public interventions, drawing-installation and video work. Exploring the everyday, material practices and mapping, Brown’s drawings look at routines, and notions of place.
She has shown at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Art Mur in Montreal, XEXE Gallery and Hang Man Gallery in Toronto, as well as DNA Artspace, ArtLab Gallery, and with McIntosh Gallery's community residency in London, ON. She earned a BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. She has taught adult and youth courses at the University of Western Ontario, Sheridan College, Art City of Toronto, the AGO, and the Toronto School of Art.