Drawing the Everyday: Window as Viewfinder
10 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-07-03 12:00 PM
The everyday view, vantage point and perspective can be a rich set of parameters from which to look at and engage with drawing. What is your everyday viewfinder? Perhaps it is a train window on your commute, a studio or bedroom window, or something else? With our chosen viewfinders as the basis of drawing projects, students will use observational skills and traditional drawing processes to investigate drawing their everyday.
In this course we will explore ideas about the everyday, have lectures and discussions about contemporary artists as examples of working methods and perspectives. We will play with drawing something ordinary, or mundane, to show beauty and specificity.
Students should have some experience with drawing as a prerequisite for this course.
Base Tuition: $490 + Material Fee: $7 = $497 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.