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Find Your Flow: Freehand Drawing taught by Jinjer Markley (Multi-Session)
January 21, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Multi-Session Class
Meets 6 Tuesdays January 21-February25 from 10am-12pmIN PERSON CLASS
Freehand Drawing means drawing from life without any pencil sketches underneath. Blank pages are scary in a delicious way, watching images appear from nothing is thrilling, and the rhythm of observing and making marks is centering. In this class, you will learn to tap into this meditative experience by learning to look, training your hands and drawing simple objects and figures. This class is just right if you are a beginning drawer, or if you want to loosen up your drawing style.
Part One: Line Drawing
In the first 3 sessions, we will focus on drawing freehand line art. We will train our eyes to find lines, accurately recognize curves, analyze proportion, and notice negative space. We will also learn fun, meditative exercises to train our hands to control curved and straight lines. We will ease into drawing objects, starting with tracing, and move up to simple freehand figure drawing.
Week 1: Lines and Curves
Week 2: Proportions
Week 3: Negative space and Reading Between the Lines.
Part Two: Shading and Shadow
The next 3 sessions will focus on adding shading and shadows to freehand drawings. We will quickly review and practice freehand drawing techniques and exercises, and then delve into making sense of shadows. The jumble of tones in an image will resolve into a pattern that makes sense, and you will be able to choose to render shadows in all their complexity, or simplify them in a way that still looks “right.” We will also learn different methods for creating the various tones of shadows using pen, marker and ink or watercolor.
Week 4: Shadow Basics + classic pen techniques
Week 5: Curved surfaces + grey markers
Week 6: Transparent and Shiny Objects + ink wash
MATERIALS: A detailed materials list will be sent to registrants but you will need a Sketchbook, some permanent micron style pens and water-soluble pens, Mixed Media Sketchbook, grey brush markers, and a brush or waterbrush.
NEXT CLASS: Want to add some color to your sketchbook drawings from this class? Join Jinjer for Sketchbook Gouache class on Tuesday, March 4th.
Classes have a limited space available and some fill quickly. Decisions about whether to cancel a class or add another session are typically made one week prior to the start of a class. If a class you are interested in is full we will have a waiting list and will contact you if a space opens up. If a class is cancelled due to low enrollment (fewer than 4 registrations) all registrations will be promptly refunded.
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