Basic Drawing
Adult Summer Class | Registration opens Monday, May 4, 2026 8:00 AM EDT
Come learn how to observe and draw objects from life, in a realistic style. In this workshop your instructor will provide exercises which will offer you a step-by-step approach to learn observational drawing. Working in pencil and charcoal, you will learn skills to help you create a successful basic drawing.
What you will learn:
1. To make accurate contour line drawings of objects
2. To identify forms and shapes
3. To understand the importance of object relationships
4. A special technique to establish scale and other relationships between objects
• Drawing paper pad 14 x 17 inches
• Newsprint pad 18 x 24 inches
• Kneaded eraser
• Mars plastic eraser
• Pencil sharpener
• Graphite pencils, 1 each 2B, 4B and 6B
• Charcoal pencils, 1 each medium and soft
• Compressed charcoal, soft (2 to 4 sticks)
• Vine charcoal, soft (small pack of sticks)
• Ruler
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Henry Bermudez
Henry Bermudez is an American contemporary artist born in Venezuela who immigrated to the United States in 2003 amid political upheaval. His work is shaped by formative experiences in Afro-Caribbean and Indigenous communities, particularly time spent in a coastal Venezuelan village and travels through the Amazon, where music, myth, and landscape left a lasting imprint. Later years in Mexico helped solidify his visual language and deepened his interest in mythology, religion, and the legacy of colonialism. Drawing from pre-Hispanic, Judeo-Christian, and Afro-Caribbean traditions, Bermudez works across diverse materials to create hybrid forms that transcend geography and time, reflecting an autobiographical vision rooted beyond Western conventions.
https://www.henrybermudezart.com/