Drawing Beyond Basics is a five-week immersive course designed for those who have completed a Beginner level drawing course, or those who have some drawing experience and are looking to refine their skills and explore new approaches to drawing. This course builds upon foundational knowledge, focusing on enhancing technique, improving skills for observation drawing, and expanding students’ repertoire of approaches to drawing. Participants will engage in structured exercises as well as exercises that encourage experimentation, challenging their abilities and pushing their artistic boundaries.
Each class will include work from observation or from artists’ drawings to refine students’ ability to perceive and depict what they see with greater accuracy and confidence, learn about composition and how to use drawing as preparation for painting. To complement this disciplined work, each class will include a more playful component of exercises that explore drawing in an expanded sense. These will open up innovative ways to use drawing to record and express personal experience. Students will learn to use a variety of dry and wet drawing media. By the end of the course, students will have improved their skills of observational drawing and discovered exciting ways to develop their drawing practice in a supportive and dynamic learning environment.