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Drawing Course
for Beginners

12 classes / 12 weeks

TUESDAYS,
6:30PM–8PM 
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$299

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New course every 6 weeks

6-Week Drawing Course

6 classes / 6 weeks

WEDNESDAYS,
6:30PM–8PM Pacific Time

$199

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New course every 6 weeks

6-Week Painting Course

6 classes / 6 weeks

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6PM–7:30PM 
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$199

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Drawing by student, Brynn Amaya

Essential Drawing Course for Beginners

Every Tuesday, Join anytime
6:30pm – 8:00pm Pacific Time

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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 to practice these techniques with more complex subjects in future drawings. All the techniques of the Essential Drawing Course are done in monochrome (black and white) so you can keep your focus on structure, tonality, shading, form, and texture.

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This drawing course includes 12 online classes, plus one free bonus class to “Figure Drawing” on Saturdays. The Essential Drawing classes take place in real-time every Tuesday at 6:30pm Pacific Time via Zoom. You can join the course at any time – each class is an independent technique.

Benefits:
– Receive photo references for each technique
– Watch the instructor’s demo
– FREE bonus class to a Figure Drawing session on Saturdays
– See what other students are creating in class
– Ask questions & receive instructor critiques in real-time

You will start from the very beginning, with the foundation of the drawing skill. In 12 weeks you will learn all the basics of drawing: how to express the light, the form, the space, and how to bring any object to life on paper. The topics include landscape, interior, still life, floral bouquet, face, and other subjects. Lessons cover line drawing, tonal drawing, shading, composing, sketching, and refining. You will become comfortable with drawing objects realistically, expressing positive and negative shapes, creating the illusion of 3-D, constructing a space in perspective, and adding finishing touches. Materials you will be drawing with are pencil, charcoal, pen/ink, conte, and oil pastel. You can enter this course at any time, as each class is a stand-alone lesson. Home assignments are provided after each class so that you could practice the skill you learned in class, on your own, and strengthen it through this additional practice.

Become an artist you never thought possible!

PLUS receive recordings of every class in the course. This will allow you to pause, rewatch, rewind, and replay any part of the course, for life! 

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Sketches by artist, James Chiahan Lee

The Art of Ideas: How To Use a Sketchbook
6-Week Drawing Course

Wednesdays, January 5th – February 9th
6:30pm – 8:00pm Pacific Time

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When you get your first sketchbook, you become a hunter for ideas. “Pray comes to the hunter”, says Olya, definitely meaning the sketchbook. When you have a sketchbook, you start getting a lot of ideas. You never know when your best idea will strike you, so you want to carry your sketchbook everywhere. Everything suddenly becomes worth your attention, and you begin to fill it with random drawings – some of which may turn out to be your body of work in the future!

A sketchbook is a fundamental tool for artists – it’s a must-have for any creative. In this course, you’ll learn how to use it effectively to lay the foundation for all of your future work.

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Benefits of the Course

You can use it like a journal, record your most exciting impressions while travelling, sketch the faces you find interesting – to get practice, draw animals in different positions, capture your family members, jot down your own reflection as the evidence of your existence, compose imaginary scenes, try different art supplies – and you don’t have to show any of that to anyone: your sketchbook is your private art kitchen – and a wealth of material.

In this course you will learn how to make a sketchbook indispensable for your art practice and fill it up with fascinating records. The objective is to learn how to use a sketchbook to catalyze creativity, gather ideas for art, and use in your travels. 

Appropriate for all levels.

This course gives you access to 9 hours of live instruction plus all of the recordings. 

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Drawing by student, Ray Brown

Introduction to Charcoal
6-Week Drawing Course

Wednesdays, November 17th – December 22nd
6:30pm – 8:00pm Pacific Time

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Charcoal is a true learning medium, perfect for those new to art because it’s the best tool for students. Students in the old academy would draw endlessly with charcoal. It is a forgiving and versatile medium – the ease of erasing and blending makes it a joy to work it. In the end, it gives you a remarkably realistic appearance when a charcoal drawing is taken to completion. 

If you’ve tried charcoal and found it messy – this course will show you how to control it. In each class, the instructor will lead you through demonstrations that cover 6 independent charcoal drawing techniques, such as blending, creating texture, using the eraser as a drawing tool, drawing on paper versus canvas, and more.

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Benefits of the Course

In the first class, you’ll learn the difference between the types of charcoals and experiment with their unique properties by creating an informational chart that will benefit all of your future drawings. The rest of the course will be devoted to playing, experimenting, and learning with this wonderful medium.

You will be guided through the entire process, from understanding the difference between the types of charcoals to creating a completed and realistic drawings. We will walk through how to add value (lights and shadows) including types of shading styles. Upon the course completion, you will walk away with a strong foundation that will make you comfortable to create beautiful charcoal drawings on your own.

You do not need prior knowledge: we will take you step by step to learn how to draw with and use charcoal so you will get the style you want, whether it be realistic or sketchy, blended or textured. You will learn how to use the techniques and combine them.

We will get to know the tools, materials and techniques of drawing and shading in a new and simple way. You will get familiar with Charcoals (vine, willow, and compressed), Eraser, and Blending Stumps.

This course gives you access to 9 hours of live instruction plus all of the recordings. 

Whether you’re a long time art lover, art hobbyist, high school student who wants to improve their art portfolio, someone who want to learn some new skills of drawing, or an artist who wants to practice another medium, you found the right course.

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Color Mixing & Color Theory 101
6-Week Painting Course

Mondays, January 3rd – February 7th
6:00 – 7:30pm Pacific Time

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The New Year will begin with the most important course for anyone who wants to try painting. Painting starts with color-mixing. In this course you will acquire the system for how to set your palette and mix any color you want. Color mixing is like science; anyone who understands it, gets off to a good start.

When you want to learn painting, you must get to know your pigments, their properties, handy shortcuts, and professional tips on the do’s and don’ts of paint mixing. 

This course will be devoted entirely to that!

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Many self-taught painters struggle with getting their paintings to look the way they want — which can be very frustrating. Often the reason for muddy, weak, naive, or garish canvas is simply a lack of information on how to work with color. No need to wrestle with it on your own: color-mixing is learned the fastest through experience and guidance: throughout the six weeks of this course you will be developing the right habits from the beginning.

 

What you will learn: 

  • Color-mixing fundamentals
  • Setting your palette 
  • Which pigments are must-have
  • Do’s and don’ts of color mixing
  • How to mix ANY color

This class is great for beginners, and is very useful for painters who have found color mixing frustrating.

PLUS receive recordings of every class in the course. This will allow you to pause, rewatch, rewind, and replay any part of the course.

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Painting by artist, May Miturich

Introduction to Watercolors
6-Week Painting Course

Mondays, November 1st – December 6th
6:00 – 7:30pm Pacific Time

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  • Live online 1-hour class
  • No experience necessary
  • Adults and teens 15 years or older
  • Access to recordings
  • 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)
    – 9x12in hot press Watercolor pad
    – 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

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.

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to paint in watercolors for plein air, commissions, or to explore new mediums, this is a course you don’t want to miss!

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You will learn how to:
– Optically color mix
– Control tonality
– Reserve the white paper
– How to create washes
– Fix mistakes using techniques and tools
– Paint using wet-into-wet, wet-onto-dry, and dry-onto-dry techniques

PLUS receive recordings of every class in the course. This will allow you to pause, rewatch, rewind, and replay any part of the course.

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