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Drawing the Everyday

10 Week Class | Available

Adult: Introduction
2025-01-21-2025-04-01
2:00 PM-5:00 PM on Tue
$487.00 CAD

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:
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    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 Brown

Kyla is a Toronto based artist and educator with a background in drawing and painting. Exploring mapping as an embodied practice, her work focuses on navigating city space and daily or mundane processes. She works in a project driven practice that includes drawing, installation, video work, online and social projects. Interested in documenting and indexing care-labour, her work aims to make visible these vital practices. Kyla has shown in solo and group exhibitions in Halifax, London, ON, and Toronto galleries and art spaces, as well as residencies and community projects working with adults and youth. She earned her BFA from NSCAD University, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. Kyla has been an instructor at TSA since 2017.