Class Description

Improve your drawing by sharpening your mindful looking skills. In this course, we will learn how to understand what our eyes see when we draw. Usually, when we draw, our brain makes automatic assumptions about how something looks based on our memories of that thing, but the reality is everything is so much weirder! Using exercises such as the blind contour and tonal squares, we will learn how to slow down our assumptions and see with new alertness. Beginning with our reflections, we will expand into working with fun, thematically dressed models (mermaids, pirates, and bears, oh my!). By the end of this class, your child will be familiar with key concepts that apply to all visual mediums: silhouette, contrast, light & shadow, negative & positive space. This is an essential course for any child with an interest in animation, comics, or painting.