Classes

Come write by hand for an hour at the end of your Thursday. Materials provided, conversation optional.

Cursive, asemic writing, letterforms, ekphrastic, drawing, scribbling, calligraphy, word art, all are welcome. No prose please.

Pádraig Ó Tuama Poetry Drawing, Danielle Yang, 2024

Drawing to connect....

This workshop is for teenager students and their parent/caregiver students. In this multigenerational class we'll dive right in without hesitation using drawing prompts, and then spring beyond that with some twists on collaboration, exchange and a little mixed media. No one need be an experienced drawer, the aim is to use our pencils to connect in a different way. Materials provided.

Maeve Norton's Musical Gif

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 5-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.

Driving Studies, Ava Hakakha, 2023

Cross Contour, Linear Perspective, Illustration Style, Gesture and Life Drawing, Plein-air Drawing, 3D Drawing, Observational Drawing....

Each class our small group will focus on building skill and practice a specific drawing approach, then we'll intentionally broaden to allow for experimentation and surprise. We'll follow our collective noses, but not to the point of wandering, and we'll put a real premium on building concentration and working on what we are not already good at. A small group allows us to take note of how art is both an inside and collaborative job; when it works to be in one's own zone, and when collective and group work is best.

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. Our work can involve creating new drawings, choosing imagery and sequencing, 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

1 and 2 point Linear Perspective techniques covered in their most basic form.

During these three classes we'll learn the basics of creating that convincing sense of depth that the linear perspective technique can offer us. We'll draw from our minds' eye, from life and from Google Earth, and we'll fold in landscape drawing in relation to architecture. Who knows, we might even touch on 3 point perspective, and we'll definitely talk about when the kind of space that linear perspective depicts matters and when it doesnt and discuss why it gets so much play in art and media.

Linear Perspective Street by Jade Jwa, 2024

This 2 hour workshop is for every level of experience and materials are provided. Students will be guided through warm-up drawing prompts while we'll ask ourselves what a diagram is, what we want from it today, and what aspects of our respective lives would be most gratifying to visualize. Dialogue depends on each students interest in and comfort with talking their work through, but technical and material guidance is offered throughout the workshop. We'll see what putting the flux of our lives to paper does for us.

Scott's Life Diagram, 2024

Explore techniques for drawing transparent subjects...

This workshop will offer a few approaches when faced with a transparent object/subject. When we draw through at on in and with a surface, the wrodl gets less clear- in a good way! We'll draw mostly found glass objects, but will dabble a bit in plastic too. Feel free to bring your own transparent subject. Materials are supplied and there is no experience necessary

Glass Jar by Trinity Santillan

Texture, Line Quality, Compositional placement, Proportion, Animating Touch.....

How to grasp the distinct qualities of our pet? How to grab at the singular attitude, gaze, texture and feel of them? Or, the memory of them? We'll work from memory and photography, and study how composition, line handling, color and technique can aim for that, again, ultra specificity that is our pet. A 2 hour workshop, all materials provided.

Dog Drawing by Valerie, 2023

This is a 3 session class series of small-sized classes focusing on drawing from the human body, and endowing it with being on the page. 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 overwhelmed by the body's form, and we'll take on approaches to seeing, hand in hand with technical and material approaches. This class is for every level of experience, and will aim to be challenging while keeping people at ease.

Human Study by Ian Trout, 2025

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