Classes

Contour Line, Sketch Method, Line as Value, Continuous Tone, Linear Perspective, Color as Tone, and Drawing with Style.

Open to everyone from total beginners to experienced artists, this class is for students who want to learn to draw what they see before them. We’ll take on different ways of seeing, shifting focus between line, value, texture, proportion, spatial relations and color, and build up a toolbox of techniques and approaches using multiple drawing mediums. We’ll build a greater understanding of the specificity of our own respective ways of seeing as we draw from varied subjects.

TP Drawing by Megan Parmele

Drawing instruction that is personalized due to particular interests, an artistic goal, a current project, expanding ones practice, a portfolio in design or art, or simply because one-on-one is a better fit for the student.

After an initial meeting, a 6-class curiculum is crafted to fit the student's goals and interests, focusing on techniques and approaches along with conceptual challenges designed to broaden and advance their development. Curiculums are supple and student and instructor continue to shape them together.

Driving Study, Ava Hakakha, 2023

Class time is responsive to the cohort’s needs and interests, and will range in activities from writing about our own and one another’s work, researching artists that connect to students’ inquiry, engaging in group and individual review and projects, improve documentation skills and, above all, expressing ourselves with specifity on the page.

This class is specifically for high school students who are looking to build an art portfolio. Through collaborative group projects as well as individual ones, and with guidance from the instructor, students develop a series of drawings that represent their distinct point of view, technical command, and style. We’ll build an environment in which we intensify and clarify one another’s vision, hone skills, verbalize our messages, and are all rooting for one another.

Favorite Shirt in Color as Tone, by Jeremy Szuder

Contour Line, Sketch Method, Line as Value, Continuous Tone, Linear Perspective, Color as Tone, and Drawing with Style.

Open to everyone from total beginners to experienced artists, this class is for students who want to learn to draw what they see before them. We’ll take on different ways of seeing, shifting focus between line, value, texture, proportion, spatial relations and color, and build up a toolbox of techniques and approaches using multiple drawing mediums. We’ll build a greater understanding of the specificity of our own respective ways of seeing as we draw from varied subjects.

Edge of Light Drawing by Yvonne Liao

Drawing as Celebration, Poetry Drawing, 3D Drawing, Diagram Drawing, Drawing as Meditation, The Frames the Image, Drawing Scores

This is a course of drawing exploration and inquiry for students looking to expand their scope of drawing, and for college level students looking to enhance their portfolio work. We'll ask what constitutes drawing, what drawing is for, and how it can change the way we imagine ourselves and the world around us. We’ll work on technique and the skills needed to express ourselves clearly, and at the same time we’ll disorient ourselves to what we know drawing to be.

Poetry Drawing for Pádraig Ó Tuama Poem, by Danielle Yang