Course Description:
Explore new ways to appreciate nature and wildlife through art and illustration as you learn basic introductions in artmaking. Learning techniques of drawing, sketching from life, sketching from reference, observing, and appreciating. Each student will utilize these skills to make an original piece by the end of the course.
Course Description:
Practice drawing techniques via lectures, warm-up drawings, and longer finished poses. Techniques may include gesture and organizational line, contour line, shape-plane-volume-modeling, value, foreshortening, and anatomical studies. We will work from a clothed model and have critiques to provide a supportive class response. Choose to work in drawing and/or painting mediums.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Continuing our Contemplative Calligraphy practice with the broad-nib Pilot Parallel Pen, we further explore the Italic hand, which dates back to the early Renaissance in Italy. This elegant hand is highly versatile and compact, making it practical for addressing envelopes and for rendering longer quotations and poetry. Emphasis will be on consistency in spacing as well as the letterforms themselves, plus basic composition and layout considerations for calligraphic art. Prerequisite V1010 or consent of instructor.
Course Description:
Each landscape has a feel all its own. We will look at how a variety of artists have depicted landscapes in their paintings, and each week be prompted by a topic(such as atmospheric perspective, painting distressed streets and walls, painting bodies of water). Whether you are painting in your own back yard or in a variety of travel locations, we will hone our observational skills, learn new techniques, and work with appropriate color palettes.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Each landscape has a feel all its own. We will look at how a variety of artists have depicted landscapes in their paintings, and each week be prompted by a topic(such as atmospheric perspective, painting distressed streets and walls, painting bodies of water). Whether you are painting in your own back yard or in a variety of travel locations, we will hone our observational skills, learn new techniques, and work with appropriate color palettes.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Relax and have fun drawing structured patterns in a supportive class environment. Using step-by-step instructions, and easy-to-learn, repetitive strokes we will explore "vintage" Zentangle© patterns along with variations on the classics and unique tangle combinations.
Skill Level: Intermediate
This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class: (www.zoom.us)
Course Description:
The Zentangle® Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Everyone, regardless of artistic skills, is invited to use repetitive strokes to draw delightful pieces of art. Each class will include the introduction of tangles, guided practice, and information about the Zentangle® Method. Only a few basic supplies are needed.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Explore the variety of shapes, colors, and textures in the natural world, with covering how to approach drawing plants and animals, then move into capturing details through different colored pencil techniques. Students can choose their own subject matter for each technique, or follow along with the instructor.
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Course Description:
Snip, tear and assemble your way through the expressive medium of collage. Create compositions using a variety of papers and techniques to gather images, shapes, and colors. To inspire your work, we will share themes such as poems, landscapes, or personal imagery.
Skill Level: Intermediate
This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class: (www.zoom.us)
