Vision and Visuality: An Exploration into Rudimentary Drawing Part 1

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What to Expect in the First Four Classes:

 

This set of eight classes provides an in-depth exploration into the fundamentals of drawing. The first four classes are dedicated to teaching visuality to become mindful about what you see, what is going on in the brain when one sees something, and how to use it to draw.

 

What to Expect in the Remaining Four Classes:

 

In the remaining four classes, we explore how to draw perspective, forms, and formless spaces. To do this, students are taught different drawing techniques, such as how to hold a pencil properly, and how to incorporate tones, shades, lines, angles, gestural lines, and much more into their art. By the time this class concludes, the student’s awareness about what they see and how to draw what they see will expand.

 

Pricing:

 

• $150 for eight classes per person

 

• $80 for one class per person

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Vision and Visuality: An Exploration into Rudimentary Drawing Part 2

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Overview:

 

Those who participated in Part 1 learned how to see, identify, and draw perspectives, lines, form, and formless spaces. Part 2 provides a specific focus on the ‘practice’ of drawing. 

 

What to Expect:

 

Each class we will go over an important drawing skill, [CC2] and participants will be prompted to utilize that skill[CC3]  by using pencils, pens, paints, and other media. There will be guest artists and models, Saturday field trips, and invitations to join the instructor in different real-world projects he may be working on.

 

Pricing:

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• $150 for eight classes per person

 

• $80 for one class per person

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Painting Class 1

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Overview:

 

This set of classes combines a comprehensive study on the fundamentals of oil and acrylic painting with the guidance from established guest artists. Many students are often turned away from painting because either someone informs them that there is no future in it or that painting techniques are too difficult to learn. This class teaches how to push past these barriers.

 

What to Expect:

 

We start off with four visiting artists who show their own work, tell their stories about overcoming creative difficulties, present what they’ve learned from using oils and acrylics, and explain how they use this learning in their careers. Next, the class ventures into nature and gazes upon its many horizons to begin learning how to paint what is seen as opposed to what is known. Students will walk away from this class with having learned about color temperature, Renoir’s feather technique, action and surreal painting techniques, how to set up design, how to blend with oils and water color techniques, and about possible painting careers to consider.  

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Pricing:

 

• $150 for eight classes per person

 

• $80 for one class per person

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Painting Class 2

 

Overview:

 

This 8-week class is dedicated to growing participants’ individual creative visual painting identities by providing them with all the resources they need. 

 

What to Expect:

 

Students will learn how to self-reflect by documenting their thoughts and feelings with a metacognitive creative journal as they paint. Furthermore, they are given opportunities to step out of their creative comfort zones to observe how their painting abilities change. This will provide the opportunity for them to expand their personal insight into their self. Lastly, at the end of the class, they are given the opportunity to display their work and talk about their own painting journeys.

 

Pricing:

 

• $150 for eight classes per person

 

• $60 [CC4] for one class per person

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Summer School Program

 

Overview:

 

In this Summer School Program, kids will have fun as they learn how to use their minds while being taught how to observe, draw, and paint from visiting professional artists and mindful practitioners.  

 

What to Expect:

 

The kids will learn observational skills, creative energy management skills, yoga’s connection to art, image making skills, goal setting skills, and a comprehensive understanding into the nature of their own creative processes. At the end of the program, they will have artwork and a portfolio for building future careers.

 

Pricing:

 

• $250 for 5 classes

 

• $150 for 1 class