Water your studio practice.
No doubt about it, things are warming up outside and in. Heat up your studio practice with watercolor, drawing fundamentals and more. Don’t forget about the youth and teen Art of Summer Open House this Sunday, May 18, 2-4 pm.
Color Fundamentals: with Colored Pencil or Oil Paint: Each is a 6 week course that holds the key to learning all about color layering, mixing and composing, using different art materials. Especially valuable for those transitioning from Drawing Fundamentals. This course can be repeated as often as desired. Above pencil rendering by a student of Betina Fink, who will teach Color Fundamentals/Pencil, Level 1 at Metal Arts Village, beginning 6/6, Friday mornings, and Color Fundamentals/Oil Paint, Level 2, also at Metal Arts, on Thursday evenings beginning 6/5.
More classes: Ignite Your Creativity workshop with Pat Dolan on 5/30, at the Main studio. Let’s get your art practice invigorated.
Continuing In the Gallery: Resonant Soils and Revisioned Structures, an exhibit by Jenny Day (work featured at left) and Karen deClouet.
Art of Summer:Open House is May 18, 2-4 pm, at the Main Studio.
Find out why the Art of Summer is the most unique youth and teen summertime studio immersion program in the Southwest. Tour the studio, meet some of the teaching artists, and register for classes. Bring your favorite young artist, aged 9-18. For more information contact Tanya Rich, Youth Manager, at Youth@TheDrawingStudio.org.
Drawing Fundamentals (“DF”): where it all begins. If you’ve been thinking about enrolling for the first time, or would like a refresher, now is the time! Level 1 or 2 is a 6 week course, teaching the skills of observational studio practice, that will last a lifetime. At the Main Studio: enroll now for DF Level 1 with Christy Olsen on Saturdays, beginning 5/24, or Level 2 with Maria Arvayo, also on Saturdays, and beginning 5/24 as well. Paul Mohr has a DF 1 beginning 5/18 at the Junior League (Full) Satellite, (Sundays) and on 5/19 (Mondays) Paul begins a DF Level 1 and Level 2, both at the Casas Adobes satellite. For all of you far north siders, Lynn Fleischman will begin a DF Level 2 on 6/3 (Tuesdays) at the Hummingbird House in Oro Valley.