Drawing Fundamentals (B)

Learn the basic tenets of drawing and composition. We’ll cover line, shape, space and value. Hone your observation skills and use charcoal to translate what you see to paper.

Special Notes

• Salis believes that anyone can learn to draw well! She comes from a classical drawing and painting background. Her teaching method draws heavily on tradition (the Renaissance through 19th Century) back before the photograph, when artists really had to be skilled to represent nature. They developed excellent methods and incorporated tricks! The class is taught in such a way as to develop basic skills that lead to realistic representational drawing from life. The method requires discipline, and the results can be amazing. She incorporates exercises from the classic (1979) book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, as well as methods taught in the ateliers of the past and present. if you are looking for a highly effective method to learn to draw realistically from life, this class is for you!
  
  
  On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. Please visit visarts.org for more information.
  
  Instructor speaks Spanish, but class will be held in English.
  
  This class does not meet on 1/20 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
  
  Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
  

About the Instructor

Salis Dembling

Salis was raised in New York City and Massachusetts and spent formative years in L.A. and South America. She's mixed/Black and the daughter of Black Historian Sterling Stuckey and granddaughter of poet Elma Stuckey She studied drawing and sculpture at Columbia University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree. She studied painting and illustration at The School of Visual Arts and in the studio of portrait painter John Murray, both in New York as well. She completed the professional four year atelier painting program and teacher training program at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia. As well as being a visual artist she is a musician/composer. She co-founded art and activism collectives and a radical community center called Better than Television.

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