Founded 1943

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Workshop Brief

Learning to draw from observation is an essential element to enhancing creative thinking. In this workshop, we will introduce and practice the skills you need to become excellent at drawing. These include perceiving edges, positive and negative space, and value and using a viewfinder and a grid. Becoming better at drawing can eliminate frustrations in painting as you can better plan compositions and analyze value within your paintings. 

If you have always wanted to learn to draw or need to catch up on some basics, this class is for you. 

Materials to bring:

• 9 x 12 or 11 x 14 drawing sketchpad
• 2B pencil
• 4B graphite stick
• White eraser
• Masking tape roll
• Two binder clips
• Optional: 9” x 12” Plexiglas®  and
  dry-erase marker
  

Meet Michelle

Michelle Arnold Paine earned her B.A. in Art and English at Gordon College and her M.F.A. from the University of New Hampshire. She has taught college students, adult learners, and high school students “how to see” since 2007. She taught drawing, painting, and design for seven years at various colleges in New England before moving to NW Ohio.

Michelle’s figurative and architectural paintings have been exhibited at 20 North Gallery in Toledo and Hudson Gallery in Sylvania, as well as many other juried and group exhibits across the US. She has recently exhibited solo at HeART Gallery in Toledo, Ohio, the Schnormeier Gallery in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and Coram Deo Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska.