Beginner Drawing Studio: Ages 6-Adult (Session Complete)

Description

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Beginner Drawing Studio 2017

Welcome to the Beginner Drawing Studio; it’s wonderful to have your smiling face joining us today! Come learn something new, with Mr. New.

Anyone can learn how to draw. There are no prerequisites for this course, except for the age requirement (6-adult). Regardless of experience level, anyone who has a desire to learn is welcome to join this beginner level course. There’s something for everyone to learn!

Where

Spirit Made Steel Martial Arts
1604 Slaughter Rd.
Madison, AL 35758

When

5 day course, 3 hours per day. Total 15 hours.
Monday – Friday, June 5 – 9
1:00pm – 4:00pm

Supplies

Newquii Studios will provide all of the necessary supplies, to include pencil sets, charcoal sets, and sketchbooks for each student to use during class. Students will get to keep these supplies when the course is complete. As references, students in the Beginner Drawing Studio will use still-life objects, photographs, and imagination.

If you wish, you may also choose to bring your own supplies in addition to those provided.

Learning Targets

In the Beginner Drawing Studio course, we’re going to take a look at the types of lines and shapes that we see in the world around us. From organic shapes to geometric forms, we’ll learn to focus our eyes, and use simple tools (pencils and charcoal) to render realistic imagery. We’re going to train our eyes to see how things really look, instead of the way that we think they look. From spotting textural minutiae to noticing the way objects look cloudier in the distance, learning to see is the first step in learning to draw.

We’ll learn how light interacts with the world around us to make highlights and shadows, how the human eye perceives that light, how to measure proportions and angles (uh-oh, there goes Mr. New using math words again!), and how to change the scale of objects to emphasize distance or emotion…  In the process, students will boost their vocabulary with words like: value, scale, proportion, geometric shapes, organic shapes, foreground, background, and so much more!

If any of this sounds too complicated, trust that Mr. New will be with you every step of the way. And trust that drawing is a skill that anyone can learn. By the time you complete this class, you’ll be proficient in drawing black-and-white images, and you’ll be fully prepared for the following courses:

• Figures and Faces 1 (graphite and charcoal)
• Ultimate Color Theory (acrlic paints)
• Wide Open Spaces 1 (chalk pastels – grayscale and color)
• Figures and Faces 2 (chalk pastels – color)
• Wide Open Spaces 2 (acrylic paints – color)

Art Instructor

The Beginner Drawing Studio will be taught by local elementary school art teacher: Noel Newquist, known as Mr. New by students across Madison. As an art teacher for Madison City’s elementary schools, Mr. New has 9 years of experience working with every level of art student, from beginners to national award-winners. To enjoy free lessons from Mr. New, check out Mr. New’s Art Class on YouTube. To see some of Mr. New’s artwork, check out the Original Artwork section of our shop.