Please register for free Beginner Drawing classes by leaving your email on the first page of this website. The free videos will be sent out once a week for 3 months.
Registration for winter classes will begin in December. All Beginner Classes are for ages 8-10 . There is no experience necessary. Beginner Portraits, Perspective and Painting are now offered at an introductory rate of $60. for a 12 week class delivered once a week by email. Intermediate Classes are for ages 10-and up- and are offered for $75. for a 12 week class. Intermediate classes are for beginners who have a basic knowledge of shading and shadowing, perspective and drawing. Classes will only be offered for 3 month courses, in June then again in September and again in February. More classes will be added with ongoing development of curriculum.
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Basic Beginner Drawing – Introduction to Line, Shape, Color, value and Texture. Free with registration for limited time only.
Basic Beginner Drawing – Introduction to Line, Shape, Color, Value and Texture. Free with registration for limited time only.
- Wire Line Design
- Drawing Trees with Line
- Drawing Trees with Negative Space
- Blind Contour with Toys
- Drawing Upside Down
- Shading and Shadowing, Light source and Observation
- Shading on a Round Surface with Color Value
- Upside down with Shading
- Shading on an Angular Surface
- Simplifying Shapes
- Texture rubbings
- Final drawing, using Line, Shape, Value and
Texture
Beginner Drawing – Portraits/People
- Gestures and the Gesture Game
- Gesture and Simplifying Shapes with Degas
- Blind contour of the Hand Drawing
- Negative Space Drawing
- Movement, Fast Gesture and Slow Contour
- Portraits – the Eyes and Facial symmetry
- Portraits – Drawing the nose and mouth
- Portraits – Axis of the Head and the Mona Lisa
- Erasure Portraits – Seeing the Light
- Facial anatomy and Proportion
- Creative Portraits
- Final Portrait
Beginner Drawing – Perspective
- Drawing in 3D – Shape and Value
- Building a 2D Sculpture with 3D Shapes
- One Point Perspective, the Cityscape
- One Point Perspective – Hallway Interior
- Perspective with Lettering –
Designing a Billboard - Unusual Perspective – Looking Down
- Two Point Perspective , Cityscape
- Two point perspective, Your Name
- Placement of the Horizon Line in Landscapes
- Atmospheric Perspective with Value
- Atmospheric Perspective with Color
- Final Drawing using Perspective
Beginner Acrylic Painting
- Supplies and the Color Wheel
- Painting 3D on 2D Surface, Light Source and Value
- Color Value – Contrasting Values in Florals
- Monochromatic Contrast in Winter Landscape
- Painting Animals from Shapes
- Upside Down Painting with Van Gogh
- Mixing Colors with Monet, Extended Image
- Close Up and Far Away, Space and Value
- Texture and Tools – Palette knife and toothbrushes
- Value Patterns and John James Audubon
- Painting Sunrise and Sunsets
- Final Painting
Intermediate Pastel Painting
- Supplies and Assignment, History of Impressionism
- Underpainting and Value Patterns
- Complimentary and Analogous Color Schemes in the Landscape
- Using Temperature and Intensity in a Floral Still Life
- Importance of Shape and Contrast
- Shape and Texture in Animals
- Learning from the Masters – Pissaro and Value, Sunlight and Shadow
- Learning from the Masters – Cezanne and Shape
- Learning from the Masters – Sisley and Aerial Perspective
- Learning from the Masters – Monet and Color Schemes
- Learning from the Masters – Monet and Texture
- Making it Yours – Photographing Light
Intermediate Watercolor Painting
- Supplies and Watercolor Techniques
- Watercolor Technique Chart
- Painting Skies and Clouds – Wet on wet, washes and lifting
- Painting Snow and Fog – Wet on dry, salt and miskit
- Painting Trees- Sponging, scumbling, scratching, rigger
- Bringing it together in a Landscape
- Painting Water and Reflections – Wet on wet, wax
- Painting Rocks, – scratching, wet on dry, splattering
- Bringing it together in a Seascape
- Learning from the Masters – Winslow Homer
- Learning from the Masters – Andrew Wyeth
- Learning from the Masters – Frank Webb