Classes

Online or in-person sessions for suggestions, thoughts and insights about/on/into an existing portfolio at any stage in the process.

These one-time or mutliple sessions are for assessing a portfolio that is in its beginning stages, in the works or almost finished. Most often our work involves choosing imagery and sequencing to represent oneself, distinguishing visual voice, working on the quality of documentation, and establishing continuity of vision. It can also involve writing about the artwork, using words to refocus the portfolio's through-line. Each session and project aims to be as effective and time-efficient as possible, keeping deadlines front of mind.

Cindy's Life Diagram, 2024

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, Yvonne Liao, 2023

This is a series of 6 small-sized classes focusing on drawing from the human body. Most often we'll draw from a live model, clothed and in the nude, but at other times we'll draw from other animals and beings. Sometimes we'll even draw from inanimate forms, because if drawing is about nothing else it's about endowing any thing with being, including the page on which we draw! We'll work on how we compose figure on the page, how we draw a still and moving figure, how we grab attitude and spirit, how we break down parts so as not to be overwhlemed by the body's form, and we'll take on many more approaches to seeing, along with technical and material approaches. This class is for every level of experience, and will aim to be challenging and at once keep people at ease while we study being in the body.

DrawingStudentDrawing, Jade Jwa, 2024

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 Studies, Ava Hakakha, 2023

This class explores composition, new approaches to the page and frame, color theory, and drawing styles. We'll anchor ourselves in observational drawing techniques, stressing different ways of seeing and shifting focus between line, value, texture, proportion, spatial relations and color, and try out various mediums while doing so, but we'll also let ourselves wander into the realm of the minds eye, looking to spawn a dialogue between intuition, intention, and imagination. We’ll work on our specific drawing voices, and study how each one comes to be.

Human Trace Drawing, Soo Jung, 2023

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 in-studio 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, Briah Sosa, 2024

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.

Raki Inspired Drawing of Classmates, Iza Max, 2023

Each class explores a mode of drawing that aims to be useful to artists whose primary meidum is glass.

This class runs a gamut of ways that drawing could be incorporated into one's practice using glass, and share the ways it already is put to use in the group. Our group will draw transparent objects using varying approaches, we'll draw in chalk as one does in a hot shop floor, we'll draw out a narrative of our life with glass, and work on installation drawings for how glass objects come into being in exhibition and other spaces. Time will be spent on practicing fast loose but clear ideation on the spot, for when working in a hot or cold shop or in front of a flame. The class leaves room for the individual ways in which drawing can clarify or enhance current practices. We'll join together in a drawing studio with glass in our minds and hearts.

A class in which we respond to poems by drawing, exploring various mediums and typography.

In this 5 session class we'll work from selected poems by various poets to create personal and responsive drawings. We'll study how drawing is a kind of writing and visa versa, and the bridge that poetry can play between them. In this way typography becomes a player in the class, but in the drawn sense. We'll explore multiple drawing mediums like chalk, oil pastel, charcoal, graphite and gouache and we'll play with various techniques including collage and frottage while we also hone compositional intention. This class is for students 18 and up, and there is no need to have experience with poetry, or even drawing for that matter! 

Pádraig Ó Tuama Poetry Drawing, Danielle Yang, 2024

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, Mikayel Mikayelyan, 2024

Observational Drawing with Twists....

This class is for the middle/highschool-student and their parent/caregiver-student. In this multigenerational class we'll learn several techniques and approaches for observational drawing, but we'll also flavor what we see with our individual angle on the world. We'll build an understanding of how specific and rich each of those angles are, while we cultivate concentration and focus on the raw and boundless IRL world before us. 

Drawing Student Drawing by Max Sarkisian, 2024