Start Drawing: PART 6 - Draw a simple pot

Master Drawing Study Workshop starts September 23rd

Drawing Workshop facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Drawing-Workshop/844448532259608?focus_composer=true&ref=aymt_homepage_panel

MASTER DRAWING STUDY WORKSHOP, Sept. 23 - October 21, 6-9 pm, Wednesdays.
Alley Cat Bookshop at 24th and Treat Ave. $120 for all six classes, with $20 discount if you pay in full at the first class. Drop-ins are also ok, $20/class. All levels welcome. Please bring your own materials.

Current Workshop runs through June 24th

Student drawing by Marilyn Meek, May 27, 2015.

This session has been focused on a variety of rendering techniques:

Hatching

Stippling

Scumbling

Shading

with various textures and surfaces: glass, metal, white china, plastic, wood, fabric

The final project for this session will be a sustained drawing, theme chosen by the group or individually. Artists will work on developing an idea  and composition through sketches, enlarging and reinterpreting the sketches, then finishing the drawing(s) with a variety of rendering techniques.

Next Workshop: March 25 - April 29

Place: Alley Cat Bookshop, www.alleycatbookshop.com
Time: 6 - 9pm, Wednesdays, March 25th through April 29th.

Bring a sketch pad or book of any size, various pencils, and kneaded eraser.

Workshop emphasizes hand/eye coordination and developing observation skills with some emphasis week to week on light and shade, line weights, tools, composition, perspective and proportion.

Participants will draw from still life objects, organic materials, figures, and furniture.

Imaginative Drawing

http://nykebaoni.com/week-november-25th-2014.html

Memory Recall
http://www.studiorousar.com/2013/01/01/memory-drawing-group-week-one/

femur bone (clipped to polyvore.com)

Light and Shade: Drawing Hands Positions

Notice hand positions when shading

      Foot sketch, charcoal on paper by Molly Hankwitz.

*New* Drawing Workshop

Syllabus
Drawing Skills Workshop 

Starts: March 25 through April 29, 6 weeks, Wednesdays, 6-9pm
 with Molly Hankwitz

ALLEY CAT BOOKSHOP

www.seedrawlearn.blogspot.com

Objectives: To practice aspects of drawing from life, objects and spaces, improve hand-eye coordination, and ongoing skills for expressive and drafted presentations. Participants will master techniques in short practice sessions with gesture, contour, light and shade.

Materials: Bring paper, sketchbooks, works in progress, images, and ideas. Limited materials will be provided for those in need.

Skill Sessions:

Mar 25th – April 1st  – Introduction. Payment, tools and process. Warm ups. Relational thinking applied to still life objects will be presented. Skills for measuring and understanding proportions will be discussed.  

April 8th – April 15th – Warm ups. Geometric forms such as cylinders and cubes will be examined through still life objects. Skills for mastering perspective with objects will be shown.

April 22nd – 29th – Warm ups. Study light and shade through looking at and copying basic forms and Masters' drawings. Create grey scale. Practice hatching and stippling. Students will draw each other and their own hands, mouths and faces. Bring a mirror!

Open to all levels. Please pay at the front desk. Drop ins are welcome. 

Drawing Workshop

When: January 14 through March 4th, 6 – 9pm.

Where: Alley Cat Bookshop, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, (415) 824-1761

Who: Instructor: Molly Hankwitz. 
seedrawlearn@gmail.com
How: 8 sessions, $20.00 per session, or discount for paying in full in second week.
Drop-ins are welcome. All levels are welcome. Youth under 14, please be accompanied by an adult.

Syllabus

Objective: To create an active working environment for those who enjoy drawing and want to practice, learn, develop, contribute. Useful tips on process, developing hand/eye coordination, self-expression, techniques, and tools will be emphasized through short exercises. Demonstration and individual instruction; group work and critique. It is recommended that participants practice skills and techniques outside of the workshop each week.

Materials: Participants are encouraged to bring their best-loved tools, paper, sketchbooks, works in progress, images, and new ideas. A small Mirror is required for the 3^rd Session. Limited materials provided for those in need.

4 Themed Sessions:

Jan 14 - 21 - Soft Form – Relational, organic, continuous soft lines will be encouraged; ways of seeing the rounder, softer, pliable aspects of objects and their corresponding space to build understanding of Mass, Space, Form and Energy through Drawing.

Jan 28 - Feb 4 - Straight Lines, Jagged Edges –Hatching, marking, line building with straight lines, edges and Planes. These Sessions will develop Hand/Eye coordination through looking more at the linear aspect of Drawing, Perspective, Volume, Surface, Planes, and Rectilinear space.

Feb 11 - Feb 18 - Dynamic Objects, Light, Shade, People – Practicing light and shade, animating objects, working from people, learning proportions of faces, hands and bodies. Participants will draw from each other and themselves. Please bring a Mirror.

Feb 25 - Mar 4 - Memory Space(s) Warm up exercises to stimulate learned experience, participants then develop drawings through memory, working on invented images and ideas; and arranging imaginative images. Research to figure out how to draw what you cannot see.

Note: Opportunity to look at drawings made in class will be encouraged! Artists will develop longer and more detailed drawings in the latter half of the workshop. 

Thanks to Kate Rosenberger and Alley Cat for inviting me to offer this at her lovely store, where she has a large and lively gallery full of art books, tables, and comfortable seating. 

http://www.alleycatbookshop.com/