Introduction to
drawing

Once a month, Saturday
6:30pm-8:00pm PST

You will learn the most important aspects of drawing from the very beginning. You will build the foundation for rendering basic objects and environments, and become ready for practicing these techniques with more complex subjects in the next level. All the techniques of the Essential Drawing Course are done in monochrome (black and white), so that the students keep their focus on structure, tonality, shading, form, and texture.

This drawing course includes 12 online classes. The classes take place in real time every Tuesday at 6:30pm Pacific Time via Zoom. You can join the course at anytime – each class is an independant technique.

• Live online 1-hour class
• No experience necessary
• Adults and teens 15 years or older
• Supply List provided

  
  

  Must have:

  • 9x12in drawing pad (or any size you’d like)
  • 4B pencils
  • Eraser
  • Sharpener

  Optional but recommended:

  • Set of conté sticks
  • Set of willow charcoal sticks
  • Blending stumps OR paper towels
  • Brush marker (water resistant)
  • Workable fixative spray
    • Must have for charcoal, conte crayon, or soft pastels (not for oil pastels.) If you want to learn how to spray your drawings, click here.

Next Level— The Human Form

Wednesdays
6:30pm-8:00pm PST

The human body as a subject is among the art’s most challenging. New artists strive to master it because drawing people is in high demand: when you can do it, it is very satisfying, more opportunities are open to you, and everyone admires your abilities. Art students and developing artists are judged by how well they can draw a person. Art colleges want to see observational figure drawings before all other pieces, to evaluate the true level of the student’s preparedness.  

After completing the first level, you are ready to take this step. In the Drawing Course Next Level, you will learn how to apply all 12 issues of drawing to the familiar techniques to drawing the human figure as it is devoted exclusively to rendering the body. In 12 weeks, you will become comfortable with it and will learn how to express the clothed body. 

• Live online 1-hour class
• No experience necessary
• Adults and teens 15 years or older
• Supply List provided

  
  

  Must have:

  • 9x12in drawing pad (or any size you’d like)
  • 4B pencils
  • Eraser
  • Sharpener

  Optional but recommended:

  • Set of conté sticks
  • Set of willow charcoal sticks
  • Blending stumps OR paper towels
  • Brush marker (water resistant)
  • Workable fixative spray
    • Must have for charcoal, conte crayon, or soft pastels (not for oil pastels.) If you want to learn how to spray your drawings, click here.

Introduction to Watercolors

Wednesdays
10:30am-12:00pm PST

Watercolor is very much a technique-based medium. What we call “technique” is the understanding of the special watercolor properties that you have to know in order to make the best of this exquisite material. This 6-week course is designed to provide you with such information. Beginners welcome – no art experience needed.

• Live online 1-hour class
• No experience necessary
• Adults and teens 15 years or older
• Supply List provided

  
  

  Supplies

  • Minimum 8-color watercolor tubes or pan set (not gouache, watercolor pencils or markers
    • NOTE: If you get watercolor tubes, you must get a plastic palette. Recommended: Blick Covered Palette
  • Soft hair paint brushes in a range of sizes: flat, round, detail set
  • Plastic palette (unless the watercolor set already comes with it)
  • Watercolor paper, 1. 9x12in hot press Watercolor pad, and 2. Legion Stonehenge Paper – 22” x 30”, Cream, 90 lb and 22″ x 30″, White, 90 lb
  • Chinese White, white gouache, or white tempera
  • Pik-Up Rubber Cement Eraser
  • Spray bottle with water
  • Scotch Delicate Surface Painter’s Tape
  • Paper towels
  • Smooth, sturdy surface to tape watercolor paper to, such as wooden board or foam board
  • Hair dryer
  • 2 water containers
  • 2H pencil and ArtGum eraser