Training Your Drawing Skills with Stephanie Burton

Sunday, March 26, 2023 10:00 am - 1:00 pm $90

This is a 3 hour class 

We will create a beautiful acrylic and inked background. When we are finished with our background we will bring in our focal point. Choose an image from my collection of magazines or bring your own image that you would like to use. Your image can be a person, animal, flower, etc. Whatever suits your taste.  Prior to placing our drawing over the beautiful background we just created, we will do a Drawing Warm-up Exercise which will help transform your drawing practice. Doing some simple line work before you start your masterpiece can make all the difference to your artwork. Your eyes and brain need some time to get going!

After our Drawing Warm-Up, we will do a Quick Sketch (Gestural Drawing) for no more than 10 minutes. We are going for speed rather than accuracy. This is a drawing exercise, we are not looking for perfection, this is just another way of

loosening up. I LOVE making gestural drawings! Some of my best work comes from a quick gestural drawing.

We will place our image over carbon paper and trace our image onto our background. Or, if you are comfortable drawing freehand, please do! This is a great way to train your hand how to draw an image. After you trace your image you can alter it with additional drawing and painting. With more and more practice using this technique...before you know it, you'll be drawing without tracing paper!

 

What this class includes:

 HANDOUTS:    

1. The 15-minute-a-day drawing exercise Routine (so easy and so effective).   

2. Gestural Drawing Exercises

• materials

• demonstration

• instruction

• tools

• coffee & tea

Provided

~ watercolor paper~ Acrylic paints ~ Dylusion inks

~ distressed inks~ stencils~ gesso~ gel medium~ Stabilo pencil~ regular

pencil~ brushes~ Coffee & Tea

About Stephanie:

Stephanie Burton has an Associate’s degree in Art and has worked in Ceramics for over 20 years. She has taught ceramics at several schools locally as well as internationally.  She helped organize an Artist Delegation to travel to El Salvador to teach impoverished children ceramics in Tierra Blanca and Ciudad Romero.

Stephanie's new endeavor is Mixed Media. After a very loud calling, she finally picked up a pencil and brush and started to draw and paint again. "Sometimes our blessings come to us in very unexpected callings and It's up to you whether or not you want to listen."

Stephanie teaches adult community ceramic classes at Georgie's in Portland, Oregon. She also teaches Ceramics and Mixed Media classes and workshops from her home studio in Vancouver, Washington. Stephanie participates annually at the Ceramic Showcase in May, the Chehalem Mountain Art Affair in July, and Clark County Open Studios in November.

Website: stephanieburtonstudios.com

Refund Policy: The workshop fee includes a 10% non-refundable cancellation fee if a cancellation is made more than 30 days prior to the workshop. A 50% non-refundable fee if cancellation is made between 30 and 7 days. No refund will be made for a NO SHOW or a cancellation with less than 7 days of notice prior to the workshop.​

Have questions?  Reach out by email to gallery360.vanc@gmail.com