BEGINNING DRAWING - SATURDAYS

Instructor:

Sue Archer

January 9 & 23, 2021

February 6 & 13, 2021

March 6 &13, 2021

April 3 & 10, 2021

9:00am - 12:00pm

You can learn to draw!

This is an 8 week course, each week building on the last

Learning to draw is learning to see. 

It is act of focused observation.

There are many ways to draw and many reasons for drawing.

Drawing is the basis for all visual arts no matter what your medium is!

But there is only one way to learn to draw: PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!
 

We will be meeting once a week for 3 hours, on line for 8 weeks.

This will be taught as a workshop not as a weekly class. 

There will be lots of drawing homework every day to do between classes, because there is only one way to learn to draw: PRACTICE? 

CONCEPTS:

WHAT IS A DRAWING?

WHAT IS A LINE?

WHAT IS VALUE?

WHAT IS A DRAWING FIELD?

WHAT IS IN OUR DRAWING TOOL BELT?

Contour drawing

Gesture drawing

Cross-contour drawing

Relationship drawing

Shapes:

   What is a good shape?

   Basic shapes

   Positive and negative shape

Form    

Values

Color/values

Light and Shadow

Basic Perspective

How to show distance.

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