Nature Drawing with Afsaneh Michaels_ Sept 4 – Oct 15 _ Wednesdays_ 9:00-12:00_ Studio 1
Nature Drawing with Afsaneh Michaels
September 4 – October 15 , 2024 (seven weeks)
Wednesdays 9:00-12:00
Studio 1
Nature drawing has a way of bringing your body and soul in sync with nature and helps you stay in the calm and quiet of the moment. Drawing helps you concentrate your mind and helps you see the world in a new way. Drawing is the kind of art practice that you can bring into your home, on vacation, outdoors with friends, anywhere you wish with just a small sketchbook and some pencils.
In this class we learn the fundamentals of visual thinking and drawing in a detailed and methodical way over several weeks with a lot practice and attention from the instructor. You will learn about form, shading, line weight, and composition and make lively, interesting and beautiful drawings. A wide range of materials and mediums are introduced slowly in the class with demos.
In my classes we work together in a cohesive environment where you get to see and appreciate a variety of art and inspire each other. You draw as beginners, intermediate students, and more experienced students all in one class, each group working on material appropriate to their group, overlaps are encouraged among the various levels.
Beginners learn the basics of form, line and value/shading and learn to draw branches, leaves, small flowers, fruits or vegetable, and an animal, bird or insect. At the end of class you’ll have at least one drawing with three or four components in it.
Intermediate students draw more complex scenery or a still life with natural elements in it, and learn to use color (optional) with colored pencils, pastels, or watercolor. This group produces several drawings, some in color and some in graphite or charcoal pencil.
More advanced students work with scale, perspective, tonal variation and more detail and color and scale. A recent group of students composed a small garden drawing with several components.
We will use pencils, charcoal, colored pencils, pens, or pastels and to lesser extent watercolor ( always combined with pencils or pens). Great emphasis is on drawing real specimens and not necessarily working from photos. Small things are brought in to the studio or from your home as models.
Please come with your materials or at least a sketchbook and some pencils to the first class and learn about materials then.
Instructor: Afsaneh Michaels. AfsanehAm@gmail.com
Dates: September 4- October 17, 2024
Wednesdays: 9:00- 12:00
Class Fee: $205.00 Members. $225.00 Non-members
Place: studio 1
Number of students: 17
Materials: Sketchbook: 93-120 Ibs. weight of your choice. Pencils: 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, F, H, 4H, 6H. Set of charcoal pencils. Pink/white eraser. kneaded rubber eraser. Pencil sharpener. Gray scale. Blending stumps. Small ruler
Set of colored pencils if you choose color.