Essential Drawing Course for Beginners

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

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.

This drawing course includes 12 online classes, and one free bonus Figure Drawing session 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.

Click here to see the techniques covered in the course.

• 12 live online 1.5-hour classes, PLUS 1 free “Figure Drawing” session
• No experience necessary
• Adults and teens 15 years or older
• Unlimited access to recordings for life
• 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.

Upcycled Art: Contemporary Mixed-Media Portrait
6-Week Drawing Course

Wednesdays, October 6th – November 10th
6:30pm – 8:00pm Pacific Time

Creating a unique work art doesn’t always have to start with a blank canvas. Sometimes, it starts with grabbing scissors and cutting your old artwork! This is when you begin to recognize that everything you have ever done had its purpose. This will be a fun and productive “recycling project”, where in the course of 6 weeks you’ll create a magnificent portrait in mixed media. You’ll draw in oversized format and discover the importance and purpose of making “intentionally bad” art (that you are not attached to) as building blocks for new art.

• Live online 1.5-hour class
• No experience necessary
• Adults and teens 15 years or older
• Access to recordings
• Supply List provided

  • Light-colored cardstock: any three light (pastel) colors, 15 sheets each color (neon colors are OK as your choice as well, just make sure to have 15 sheets of each chosen color. One of those light colors can be white, 15 sheets).
  • Dark-colored cardstock: any one dark color (black, brown, etc.) – 15 sheets. All 15 sheets must be of the same color.
  • Options for substrate
    1. Large roll of brown paper from a home-remodel store or art store (36-inch or 48-inch roll)
    2. Four (or six) sheets of 19×25” Canson paper in pastel or saturated colors. These four (six) sheets can be four (or six) different colors.
    3. Four (or six) pages from an 18×24 drawing pad, painted with tempera.
       1. You will be gluing all these sheets together to create one large substrate. When deciding whether to choose four or six sheets of paper, keep in mind that six colors will make your artwork look more ambitious (i.e. larger), more impressive for college admissions, and more attractive for art collectors. 
  • Premium Blick Black tempera diluted to the consistency of ink
  • Premium Blick White tempera diluted to the consistency of ink
  • Bristle brushes, variety of sizes from small to large;
  • Black and white nupastel or soft pastel
  • Blending stumps
  • Eraser
  • Sharpener
  • Pencil
  • White Glue
  • Scissors
  • Fixative spray, workable
  • A space on your wall and pushpins. Optional: wooden/foam support board, big enough to fit your large colored substrate, and 4-6 large clamps.

Introduction to Watercolors
6-Week Painting Course

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

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!

• Live online 1.5-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)
  – 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