Introduction to Drawing and Painting
Learn the tricks and techniques of the masters as we expand our understanding of the creative process using the simplest of shapes. From the figure to landscapes, and abstraction, find empowerment in the realization that we are all artists. While weaving art history through guided step-by-step, hands-on instruction, we come away inspired by the confluence of art and history that will empower us to see the world through a new lens.
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Week 1
Our journey begins drawing inspiration from inside the Sistine Chapel, where we will study an often overlooked artwork painted years before Michelangelo’s frescos on the world-renowned ceiling. We will learn linear perspective and the essential components to invite the viewer’s eye into the artwork. This technique will be foundational to the techniques we build throughout our course together.
Week 2
As we begin painting, we will evolve what we learned while drawing in our previous class as we incorporate color, light, and mass. Taking ideas from the 17th-century still lifes of Dutch Masters, we will find more than meets the eye in the layered visual language of an ancient art form as we explore the potential of using the secret language of symbolism in our paintings.
Week 3
Examine the profundity of nature through painterly techniques to blend real landscapes with the imagined. We will take concepts we learned from linear perspective and still lifes while deconstructing components of those classes using color washes and wet-into-wet blending techniques to construct emotive portraits of mother nature.
Week 4
In forming the human figure, we will explore gesture and movement as individuals begin to make their way into our artworks. From simple shapes, the musculature emerges that will humanize our paintings and open us to the possibility of telling our stories through the millennia-old language of visual art.
Week 5
Approaching abstraction with the experimentation of the inner child, we will discover how techniques in this class can be incorporated into all styles and aspects of our art practice. Explore the gradation of color, the profundity in simplicity, the power of letting go, and soft tonal color shifts as we build from the imagination.
Week 6
In this class, we will combine all previous courses’ elements. From accenting with abstractions to fabricating forms and figures, we will diffuse light in scenes that are at once familiar and entirely our own. We will explore incorporating our own stories, memories, and imagination into artworks using techniques we’ve learned that will allow us to tell our own visual stories.
Our journey begins drawing inspiration from inside the Sistine Chapel, where we will study an often overlooked artwork painted years before Michelangelo’s frescos on the world-renowned ceiling. We will learn linear perspective and the essential components to invite the viewer’s eye into the artwork. This technique will be foundational to the techniques we build throughout our course together.
Week 2
As we begin painting, we will evolve what we learned while drawing in our previous class as we incorporate color, light, and mass. Taking ideas from the 17th-century still lifes of Dutch Masters, we will find more than meets the eye in the layered visual language of an ancient art form as we explore the potential of using the secret language of symbolism in our paintings.
Week 3
Examine the profundity of nature through painterly techniques to blend real landscapes with the imagined. We will take concepts we learned from linear perspective and still lifes while deconstructing components of those classes using color washes and wet-into-wet blending techniques to construct emotive portraits of mother nature.
Week 4
In forming the human figure, we will explore gesture and movement as individuals begin to make their way into our artworks. From simple shapes, the musculature emerges that will humanize our paintings and open us to the possibility of telling our stories through the millennia-old language of visual art.
Week 5
Approaching abstraction with the experimentation of the inner child, we will discover how techniques in this class can be incorporated into all styles and aspects of our art practice. Explore the gradation of color, the profundity in simplicity, the power of letting go, and soft tonal color shifts as we build from the imagination.
Week 6
In this class, we will combine all previous courses’ elements. From accenting with abstractions to fabricating forms and figures, we will diffuse light in scenes that are at once familiar and entirely our own. We will explore incorporating our own stories, memories, and imagination into artworks using techniques we’ve learned that will allow us to tell our own visual stories.