Drawing as a Way of Seeing

“To be a good artist, you must first learn how to draw” — Vian Borchert French impressionist and master artist Camille Pissarro correctly exclaimed that, “it is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to your surprise, that you have rendered something in its true character.” For the Fall semester, I will be teaching a “Beginning to Intermediate Drawing” at Glen Echo Park & Yellow Barn studio in Glen Echo, Maryland. The drawing class is designed for beginning, intermediate and continuing students where students will learn how to use many drawing mediums such as charcoal, graphite pencils, pen and ink, and colored pencils to create dynamic drawings. Demos of all types of line-contour, gesture, variable and hatched lines will be presented. Art themes such as still life of fruits, vegetables, vases, flowers, birds, landscape studies and others will be covered. In a drawing class, not many tools are needed. One mainly needs a sketch book, pencil, eraser and pencil sharpener to enter the wonderful drawing world. I make sure in my classes to emphasize on the importance of the study of proportion, shading, line making, contour + gesture line marks. Most importantly I guide the students to enhance their visual abilities through a number of visual and cognitive exercises that open one’s eyes and brain to draw well. I teach the students step by step how to draw subject matters from still life: from a vase to an apple to a bird. Also, I introduce my students to art history references and works by master artists such as Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, Picasso and others who loved the art of drawing. Making art is first and foremost fun. <a href="https://vianborchert.medium.com/drawing-as-a-way-of-seeing-e29cdcab38d8">Visit Now</a>