Drawing Fundamentals

Adult Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome, recommended for beginners.

4/6/2023-6/8/2023

6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Th

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$315.00

$285.00

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$15.00

Through exercises and longer drawing assignments, you will learn to accurately see and depict the 3-dimensional world. This class focuses on the foundations of perceptual drawing: contour, shape, value, gesture, perspective and proportional relationships. You will learn the process of starting and developing both line and tonal drawings using pencil and charcoal. Additional, emphasized concepts include “working from big to small,” and balancing close perception with measuring to bring both life and accuracy to a drawing. You will work from images, still life and the figure.

What you will learn:
1. Keener eye for contour, shape, proportion, and value relationships
2. How to use various measuring techniques to achieve accurate proportions
3. How to use 1 and 2 point perspective
4. Introduced to figure drawing with a live model
5. Process of drawing and sketching deconstructed, confidence to maintain an independent drawing practice
6. Understanding of various drawing materials, including graphite, charcoal, erasers, and ink

  • • Drawing Paper Pad 18 x 24 inches (Strathmore 400 is a good bet)
  • • Kneaded Eraser
  • • Stylus Eraser such as Mono Zero
  • • Pencil sharpener
  • Graphite pencils, 2H, 2B and 4B (the 2B could be a regular school pencil with eraser)
  • Fineliner pens approx .05 and .1 or something similar
  • • Charcoal pencils, 1 each medium and soft
  • • Compressed charcoal, soft (2 to 4 sticks)
  • • Vine charcoal (small pack of sticks)
  • • Ruler

Barbara graduated with a B.F.A. in Illustration from Syracuse University in 1999, and immediately moved to NYC. She met success in shows at Figureworks Gallery and Get Real Art, but felt drawn to study classical painting in Florence, Italy. She lived there for one year studying drawing under Mario Pachioli. Then in 2004, she moved to Philadelphia on a full scholarship to study with Nelson Shanks at Studio Incamminati. It was here that she developed her portrait painting, drawing and color theory skills. She left the atelier in 2006 to work on a series of large paintings depicting figures of Greek mythology and began to explore landscape painting. After travelling and painting extensively, Barbara returned to Incamminati to finish the Professional Program in 2015 and served as a teaching fellow for two years. In addition to Fleisher, she currently teaches painting and drawing at Studio Incamminati, Wayne Art Center, Main Line Art Center, Abington Art Center, Journey’s Way, and Repenning Fine Arts in Audubon, NJ. You can visit her website to view more artwork at barbarazanelli.com.