Description
DRAWING MATTERS! From Realistic to Expressive
Mondays, July 10 & 17
In person series 10 am – 2 pm
$40 Members, $80 Non-members
Make drawing easier! We’ll cover the crucial techniques guaranteed to improve your drawing, applying them to a variety of styles, including contour line work and fully modelled graphite work. We’ll experiment with adding vitality and expression to our work via gesture drawing, scumbling, and expressive mark-making. We’ll explore various materials, such as graphite, graphite powder, water-based pencils, ink, and more. Students will bring objects to draw, as well as using photos references, thus making the artwork personal and meaningful.
Students will bring objects to draw, as well as using photos references, thus making the artwork personal and meaningful. You’ll leave with a body of work ranging from realistic to expressive.
You might discover a way of drawing you never knew you’d love!
The guild will supply many of the materials for this workshop.
The class is tailored to any skill level.
Instructor Bio “Two things drive me: creating art and being around people creating art.” For nearly three decades Christina taught high school art, creating courses in Beginning through Advanced Art, Painting, Illustration, Visual Communications, and Fashion Illustration. At LaSalle Prep she was selected Educator of the Year. With a degree in Art Ed and post-baccalaureate in Painting, Christina taught in Boston, Athens (Greece), and Portland. She has participated in group shows, including Blackfish Gallery, the Art Institute, and the L.O. Festival of the Arts. Her work is found in private collections in Portland, Florida, Las Vegas, and Greece. Her motto is Creating art should be fun, it should be challenging, and it should be brain food.
See her work at https://christinaericksona.wixsite.com/christinaerickson
SUPPLY LIST
The guild will supply many of the materials for this workshop.
Please bring the following:
- 1. Pencils, ball point pens, and erasers (any kind)
- 2. Drawing paper, any size (we’ll supply some if you don’t have any)
- 3. Sketch pad or sheets of copy paper
- 4. Round (pointed) paintbrush
- 5. Some objects to draw that have relatively simple shapes, such as vases and bottles, statues, teddy bears, baseball mitt, tools…
Any of the following, if you have them:
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- Drawing pencils
- Bottle of ink
- Charcoal pencils
- X-Acto knife
