Course Description:

Learn techniques to draw expressive portraits of animals across a variety of species. Using both provided reference materials and culminating with photos of your choice, explore facial structure and proportions, strategies for rendering textures, including fur, scales, and feathers in color, and how to best utilize reference photography to fully capture the essence of your subject. 

Skill Level: All Levels

Course Description:

Using still life and reference materials, create drawings and paintings using a variety of pens–dip pens, micron pens, brush pens; watercolors, Dr. Martin Watercolors, inks, and brushes, on various papers.

Skill Level: All Levels

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Course Description:

Using still life and reference materials, create drawings and paintings using a variety of pens–dip pens, micron pens, brush pens; watercolors, Dr. Martin Watercolors, inks, and brushes, on various papers.

Skill Level: All Levels

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Course Description:

Explore figure drawing fundamentals: proportions, gesture, anatomy, line, shape, composition and value, while working in dry media such as graphite, charcoal, and pastel. Study both classical and contemporary examples that range from Durer to Diebenkorn.

Skill Level: Intermediate

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Course Description:

Explore figure drawing fundamentals: proportions, gesture, anatomy, line, shape, composition and value, while working in dry media such as graphite, charcoal, and pastel. Study both classical and contemporary examples that range from Durer to Diebenkorn.

Skill Level: Intermediate

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Course Description:

Master the ins and outs of colored pencils to render realistic and expressive depictions of the world around you. Focus on mark-making, various techniques for layering color, the importance of light, shadow, and color theory, and the rendering of textures across a variety of still life objects.

Skill Level: Beginner

Course Description:

Master the ins and outs of colored pencils to render realistic and expressive depictions of the world around you. Focus on mark-making, various techniques for layering color, the importance of light, shadow, and color theory, and the rendering of textures across a variety of still life objects.

Skill Level: Beginner

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Individual coaching on the drawing and painting aspects of portrait painting. Focus on developing your drawing skills only or develop your abilities to render the model in color. Bring drawing and or painting materials of your choice to the first class for poses lasting 2 to 3 weeks.

Skill Level: Intermediate