Founded 1943

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Workshop Brief

In this class we will introduce and practice the skills you need to become excellent at drawing. Becoming better at drawing can eliminate some frustrations in painting as you become better able to plan compositions and analyze value within your paintings. If you have always wanted to learn how to draw, or feel you missed out on some basics, this class if for you. Drawing is about finding relationships and problem-solving, so learning to draw from observation is an essential element to enhancing creative thinking in all areas of life. The premise of this class is that everyone can learn how to draw. Appropriate for mature high school students. 

These three sessions of Drawing Bootcamp will focus on using linear perspective to create the illusion of three-dimensional space. We will use both one-point and two-point perspective to construct an illusion of 3 dimensional space from imagination. We will then put this knowledge into practice while drawing from observation. We will use a viewfinder to assist in building the skills of sighting and measuring in order to create accurate representation of space.

Materials to bring:

• 9x12 sketchbook (approximately 9x12)
• Large drawing paper - 12x18 or larger
• Pencil  - 2B
• White eraser
• Masking tape
• Ruler

Optional Supplies:

• 9x12 piece of plexiglass
• Dry Erase marker
• 2 binder clips
  

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.