Drawing 1 - Heighten your visual awareness with exercises designed to access the creative, receptive (“right”) side of the brain. This basic drawing class covers the first 3 “seeing skills” necessary to improve your drawing skills rapidly: Gesture, Volume, & Negative Space. Students will draw objects from life. We’ll start with quick, loose gesture sketches, and progress to longer drawings in the third week of class. Demos, individual guidance, and lots of practice are provided. Ideal for beginners, and others needing to loosen up and improve their observation skills.
Drawing 2 - Drawing 2 picks up where Drawing 1 left off: it covers the remaining 3 “seeing skills” necessary to improve your drawing skills rapidly: Sighting Angles, Proportions, and Light & Shadow. Students will draw objects / settings from life. We’ll start loose & messy and gradually progress to more detailed, finished work. You’ll get demos, Individual guidance, and lots of practice in a supportive, high-energy setting where mistakes are celebrated as signs of growth!
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Meanwhile, here's a BIO:
Stacye Leanza is an illustrator & mural painter with a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC. Her illustrations (for grown-ups & kids) have been published locally & nationally. Her murals are scattered around the Triangle; she has the distinction of having painted the largest mural in Chatham County! She taught figure drawing, abstract art …& much more, at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro for over 10 years. She currently teaches privately, and mentors one-on-one. She also dabbles in POD wearable art.
This website is made possible by an Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council with support from the North Carolina Arts Council, with funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
