2013 Community Art Classes - DRAWING

DRAWING

Longboat Key Center for the Arts will be offering classes during the months of January through April 2013 . If you would like to register for a class, please call 941-383-2345 or fill out the Registration Form and fax to 941.383.7915 or mail to Longboat Key Center for the Arts, 6860 Longboat Dr. S., Longboat Key, FL 34228.

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Figure Drawing

Instructor: Peter Carlson (bio)

Saturdays: 1 pm – 4 pm

Bldg 300 Studio 1

$155 per 4 week session (includes model fee)

1) Jan 12, 19, 26, Feb 2

2) Feb 9, 16, 23, Mar 2

3) Mar 9, 16, 23, 30

4) Apr 6, 13, 20, 27

Description: Learn to make powerful and expressive figure drawings through a greater understanding of structure, anatomy, light, and shade.　 Figure drawing is intended to introduce the student to the pleasures and problems particular to drawing the human figure from life. To this end, drawing from observation is emphasized using the nude model. Compositional context as well as the formal concerns specific to the individuality of the human figure is emphasized. Charcoal, conte, ink, paper and a variety of media are used. Students will learn how to tone paper, block in mass shapes, create gestures, create contour drawings. Demonstrate the process of taking a sketch to rendered completion. Model poses will range from 10 second gestures to full length 1 hour poses. The outcome of this course is to help students become comfortable creating a believable figure in space that in not only accurate but expressive.

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PASTELS BUILDING VIBRANT COLOR

Instructor:  Nancy Goff (bio)
Bldg 300 Studio 2
Tuesdays:  1 pm – 4 pm

$135.00 per 4 week session

1)  Jan  8, 15, 22, 29
2)  Feb 5, 12, 19, 26
3)  Mar 5, 12, 19, 26


Working from personal photos, you will learn how to make exciting compositions for your artwork.  The flexibility of pastels is the attraction…learning to build layers quickly, to achieve wonderful color, is the pleasure. This course is intended for all levels.

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COLOR PENCIL DRAWING

Instructor: Janine Hoffman (bio)

Bldg 300 Studio 2

Thursdays: 1 pm – 4 pm

$135.00 per 4 week session

1) Jan 10, 17, 24, 31

2) Feb 7, 14, 21, 28

3) Mar 7, 14, 21, 28

4) Apr 4, 11, 18, 25

Description: Learn how to work with colored pencils and implement the techniques that the instructor uses. Student should have basic drawing skill and knowledge of basic color. This is not a fast medium and works best with a student who enjoys putting time into their work. Learn to use this little-known medium to its maximum potential through layering techniques, achieving intense color and unusual hues.

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LEARN PERSPECTIVE DRAWING IN AN AFTERNOON WITH JACK NOLAN!

Instructor: Jack Nolan (bio)

Saturday, March 16

1 pm – 4pm

Bldg 400 Studio B

$50

 

According to John Singer Sargent “A portrait is a likeness with something wrong with the mouth.” It might also be said that a landscape is a painting with something wrong with the perspective.  After an engineering career designing buildings I have been teaching plen air painting for ten years. I try to make the subject of perspective simple and, I hope interesting.

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DRAW WHAT YOU SEE

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Instructor: Marilyn Charlotte (bio)

Bldg 400 Studio B

Saturdays: 1-4 pm

$275 for the 8 week session

Jan 19, 26, Feb 2, 9

Feb 16, 23, Mar 2, 9

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a classic book by Betty Edwards about learning how to draw. It was first published in 1979 (the latest edition being called The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain). The Edwards method has a reputation for being phenomenally effective at teaching people how to draw better than they ever thought they could. The course is based on the premise that the left and right hemispheres of the brain process information in very different ways. Learn how to put your right brain to work at a task for which it is uniquely designed! Even if you don’t that will allow you to create exceptionally fine drawings and the world will never look the same again! 

Marilyn Charlotte is an award winning artist who exhibits versatility in drawing techniques, watercolor, acrylic painting and subject matter. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and Art Shows throughout Florida and is in private collections internationally. Marilyn has taught art courses and workshops in her studio / gallery and in Art Center settings around Florida.

Supplies:

Books

OPTIONAL – Betty Edwards’ book: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Paperback:

Publisher: HarperCollins; ISBN-10: 0007116454 ISBN-13: 978-0007116454

Paper

Sketch pad (approx. 11X14)

A pad of newsprint

Support:

Piece of gatorboard, Masonite, smooth cardboard or similar surface . . . large enough to support the size paper on which you will be drawing. About 16 x 20 is a good size.

Miscellaneous Items:

Several regular number 2 yellow pencils

Small set of drawing pencils

Small set of Colored pencils

One graphite stick #4b &/or vine charcoal

Instructor will provide a piece of plexi-glass to create a picture plane. Cost to student $1 each. We will make the picture plane in class. 

An erasable (non-permanent) black felt tip marker.

Two clips to fasten your viewfinders to the plastic picture frame.

Masking tape

One light weighted mirror . . . about 8X10” with a stand . . . available at the Dollar Store

A small hand held pencil sharpener

About 50 sheets of plain white copy paper

One Kneaded Eraser (Gray in color and flat), one pink pearl or white eraser

Piece of chamois

A list of other optional supplies will be given out in class