Intermediate Portraiture: Three-Quarter View

Prerequisite for this class is “Portraiture for Beginners” or a good foundation in the ability to get a likeness, good proportions, and skill in drawing facial features.  In Intermediate Portraiture, we will continue to work on those items in addition to learning how to capture expression.  The three-quarter view will be practiced.  

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Portraiture for Beginners

If you have basic drawing skills and can draw a face but want to learn how to get a better likeness, this is the class for you.  We will use copies of black & white photos, grids, anatomy references, and drawing techniques to produce an accurate likeness and expression.  You may bring your own black…

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Colored Pencil Next Steps

Prerequisite for this class is “Colored Pencil for Beginners” or experience using colored pencils on your own. Come advance your skills using colored pencils.  We will work on how to use color, how to blend colors, and how to create a cohesive composition.  Photocopies will be provided for content and transferring images.

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Drawing Figures and Faces for Beginners

You can learn to draw the human figure. In a supportive, positive atmosphere, you will do very basic exercises to learn how to draw people. You will be able to work at your own pace. This class will give you a solid foundation to build on. More experienced artists with basic to intermediate skills drawing…

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Intermediate Drawing

This class will build on the foundational skills learned in a prerequisite Beginning Drawing course (any instructor). Through the observation and interpretation of the natural world the artist gains understanding of form and discovers new ways to express ideas. We will continue developing the use of line and modeling while adding elements of perspective, lighting…

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Colored Pencil for Beginners

Colored Pencils are a great way to begin to use color in your artwork. They are inexpensive, easy to set up and clean up plus you can create with them anywhere. This class will get you started with basic skills and techniques. Suggested complimentary classes: Beginner Drawing and Color Theory.

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Colored Pencil for Beginners

Colored Pencils are a great way to begin to use color in your artwork. They are inexpensive, easy to set up and clean up plus you can create with them anywhere. This class will get you started with basic skills and techniques. Suggested complimentary classes: Beginner Drawing and Color Theory.

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Drawing Next Steps

This class is open to beginning artists who have some basic drawing skills.  (You must have either taken “Drawing for Beginners” or other RAL drawing classes for beginners or have had past drawing experience.)  This class provides a supportive, positive atmosphere for learning how to draw basic objects in a composition.  The supplies for this…

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Introduction to Drawing

Drawing is the foundational skill for all other forms of visual art.  Through the observation and interpretation of the natural world, the artist gains understanding of form and discovers new ways to express ideas.  The class covers basic skills of line, modeling and the use of pencil, charcoal and sanguine chalk.  The course is based…

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