Drawing is undoubtedly the foundation of all art and visual thinking! Whether you are creating a map to show folks where the party will be, recording your impressions of the person across the room, envisioning a new home, a widget, or planning a master painting, the skills developed by drawing and observation have enriching effects of the psyche. In French, Design is the word for drawing. In Chinese, Writing and Drawing are the same word. We all think, imagine and visualize.
Classes are progressively complex, using a variety of graphite and charcoal. For the last class, colored pencils can be fun as well.
Week:
- Review materials and tools for drawing in this class and discuss the line-of-sight approach to study the simplest of common objects. Practice.
- Develop your line quality and experiment with shading, implied line, crosshatching etc. Practice with simple still life or work from a photo. We will also work with positive and negative shape. Look at some of the master’s drawings.
- Further develop the sense of style in drawing. Explore types of form, atmospheric and horizon line perspective in the landscape and layering of objects to create an illusion. Close up and distance.
- What to detail, what to leave out! Develop a sense of design as we discuss the fundamentals of line, mass, volume, while controlling the best image to relate your message. Study the “Rules of Thumb” followed by the masters. Learn how to develop drawing habits to use with any art practice, including thumbnails and preliminary drawings.
Materials:
Large pad of Drawing paper, at least 11 x 14. pencils 6B, 2B, Carpenter’s Pencil. Kneaded eraser, paper blending stump. (cost about $20)
Smaller sketchbook if desired. Colored pencils optional
WAC provides any other materials, set ups etc.
Cost: $90 for 4 sessions | When: Feb 6,13,20,27 6pm – 8pm
Woodburn Art Center
Linda Chatfield BFA MS Art Ed