*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/