Advanced Drawing
Grade: 7 - 12 Min: 4 Max: 15 (15 seats remaining)
Min Assistants: 1 Max Assistants: 2 (1 seat remaining)
This class is for students who have some drawing background and would like to enhance their skills and gain some more techniques that they may not already have. Students will need to be able to follow along with demonstrations and be able to apply skills taught during class to their work. We will be covering a range of mediums and topics, including graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, and ink pens while working on drawing portraits, still-life, landscapes, animals, perspective and more. It is a class that will be designed for students wishing to enhance their skills they may already have and to be challenged and encouraged in creating art.
About an hour or less of homework each week, with the exception of the weeks in which we are working on projects, which may take 2-3 hours.
About once a month, a special project will be done to demonstrate the topic which we are studying in class. These will be shown to the class by the student and should look presentable. I will be giving out a detailed assignment sheet for each project so everything will be clearly explained. We will also be taking one piece of each student's artwork (their choice) and entering it into the Spring Fair.
1.) Drawing pad (at least 9x12 inch), 2.) Graphite pencils of 2H, HB, B, 2B, 4B, 6B (usually can be found in packs of these six), 3.) pencil sharpener (preferably a manual, hand-held like Mr. Pen), 4.) Blending stumps of various sizes, 5.) 12-inch ruler, 6.) erasers, white polymer (not pink!) AND Tombow mono stick eraser (can be found on Amazon). I will be providing additional supplies for students, as well.
$30 per semester; material fees will be used for project paper, charcoal pencils, ink pens, colored pencils, graphite powder, and other supplies needed for a variety of drawings. Venmo: @Hayley-Howat
Students should be able to read and use a ruler well, have some basic understanding of perspective drawing, and some general skill in drawing. Those who come to class without some background may struggle with some of the more advanced drawing techniques.
Beginning Drawing or prior drawing experience