Date: Saturday January 18th & Sunday January 19th, 2025
Times: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Levels: All Levels
Cost: $250
Workshop Description
The secret ingredient of drawing (and painting) is LIGHT! In order to hone your skills, it is helpful to understand what you are seeing. And half of seeing is seeing with the mind.
To understand light, it is necessary to understand form, which reflects light. To understand form, we must use our minds and imagination to translate three dimensional reality onto the two dimensions of your drawing surface.
This is the goal of the workshop: to translate what we see, which is three dimensional reality, into two dimensions.We will work with the living figure to achieve this! We will learn how to model form in ways which will lead to our understanding of form.
My teaching philosophy is simple: I am here to help. And I am here to MAKE YOU HAVE FUN! I want my students to succeed.
I will demonstrate a little, to help communicate the concepts I have explained, but we will draw (and paint, with pastels) most of the time. It will be a dojo, made to engage your mind, and fill you with joy!
Supply List
Note: We have drawing boards and clamps at the studio, and will provide high quality pastels to share.
*SUGGESTED* Materials List:
General's Compressed Charcoal Pencils:
2B Charcoal Pencil
4B Charcoal Pencil
6B Charcoal Pencil
General's Willow Charcoal Sketching Set
Purchase here: Willow Charcoal Sketching Set
Chamois Cloth:
A soft, natural leather cloth for blending and shading.
Terry Ludwig Pastels - Best Loved Basics Set:
Purchase here: Terry Ludwig 14 Best Loved Basics Set
Optional Alternative:
Sennelier 20 Half Stick Assorted Pastels
Purchase here: Sennelier 20 Half Stick Assorted
Hahnemühle Ingres Paper or your choice of pastel paper:
20 sheets
Choose your preferred tone.
Purchase here: Hahnemühle Ingres Paper
Pink Pearl Eraser:
For precise erasing and highlights.
Drawing Board:
Large enough to support your chosen paper size.
Clamps:
To hold the paper securely on your drawing board.