Lucy conducts two different classes from time to time: Drawing to Learn and Drawing and Painting to Learn: Portrait and the Figure. Location, directions, and tuition fees are given for each class as it is posted.
General Description of all Classes
Drawing to Learn
Class Description
The title Drawing to Learn is an intentional flip of the expected title: Learning to Draw. It grew out of a realization that drawing is a learning process—about the piece being worked on, the activity of making art, or some personal revelation. We often set unreasonable goals when we set about learning to draw. Sometimes we miss what lovely things we've done because we're stuck on some other result idea. Focusing on what can be learned frees up the mind to be less judgmental about the outcome and more accepting of the process as a journey. Lucy's unique approach combines short introductions to classic drawing skills followed by still life drawing where those skills can be applied in each student’s personal style. Students do “learn to draw”! But emphasis is not on “getting it right” or “making a masterpiece”. It's about how drawing opens up a world of wonder in the simplest things around us and how we all have a beautiful way of putting that down.
Eligibility
Although this class focuses on basic drawing skills, and is perfect for the novice, accomplished artists are welcome and, in fact, discover they improve their observation skills every time they review the classic skills of drawing.
Materials
A materials list is always posted with each class time and place notice.
Eligibility
All are welcome but some previous art instruction is helpful.
Materials
A materials list is always posted with each class time and place notice.
Drawing and Painting to Learn:
Portrait and the Figure
Class Description:
This class is an instructed study of a posed model for portrait or general figure study. All media are welcome unless otherwise noted in the class notice. The model is clothed and in the same pose for the whole series, usually three hour sessions of three to four weeks duration. Students have the opportunity to focus on anatomy and/or drapery or experiment with different techniques. Every artist works differently, and at different speeds. Some students like to use the whole time for one finished piece, carefully setting up their sketch and progressing to a completed painting or detailed drawing. Others enjoy doing several drawings or paintings, giving them an opportunity to improve anatomical structure or more accurately express a mood.
Eligibility
All are welcome but previous drawing or painting experience is helpful. Class is a combination of short discourses to the whole class, with most of the time given to individual assistance.
Materials
A materials list is always posted with each class time and place notice.
September 2010 Art Classes
"September Selections"
Introducing "September Selections", art instruction by Lucy Ellen Smith, at the Studio Classroom in North Gorham. You are invited to come to one or as many classes as you wish.
WHAT
Come to one, some or all to:
• Draw or paint from still life set-up or plaster cast figure studies
• Get help with something you are already working on and can bring to class
• Get help with using photography as reference for drawing or painting
WHEN
First 4 Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, Sept 1, 8, 15, and 22
First 3 Saturday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00 PM, Sept 4, 11, and 18
WHAT ELSE?
Last Saturday afternoon—Sept 25 from 1:00 to 4:00—instructed drawing or painting from live model
COST?
$20 for each 3-hour session. $20 will be collected at the beginning of each class that you attend.
WHERE?
Studio Classroom, top floor, UCC Church at North Gorham. The address is 4 Standish Neck Road, 3 miles from North Windham, at the corner of Standish Neck and North Gorham Roads where the fire station and library are. Enter front doors; the Classroom is on the top floor.
NO Pre-registration required
Just show up with $20, but if you know a day or two ahead that you plan to come, email me so I can prepare appropriate space.
Click here for questions concerning the classes or detailed directions to the Studio Classroom.
