WS: Introduction to Drawing
3 Day Workshop | Registration opens 2025-04-15 12:00 PM
This summer intensive course is the best way to begin one’s artistic journey! Through in-class exercises and demonstrations, 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; quality of line and mark making, contour, gesture, basic shapes, measuring and proportion, simple perspective and tonal drawing. We’ll explore a variety of media, learning about the possibilities.
The fundamentals of observation are vital to any creative practice!
Base Tuition: $290 + Material Fee: $20 = $310 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
- Pls. be sure to keep receipts in case you have to return any items.
- 2 sticks graphite: 2B & 6B
- Assorted pencils: HB, 2B, 4B, 6B
- Drawing eraser- Small box vine or willow charcoal - thin or medium
- A few sticks of conte: brown, white & black
- Blending stick
- 1 pad of Newsprint paper (18"x24")
- 1 pad of Cartridge paper
- 2 bulldog clips
Donnely Smallwood
Donnely is a mixed media and installation artist. 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.