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Drawing for All Levels
(Wed. AM)
with Carmen Howell
Drawing for All Levels
(Thurs. PM)
with Carmen Howell
Classical Drawing from Casts
with Michael Davis
Drawing with an Artist's Eye
with Ann Noel
Drawing with Pencil to Prismacolor
with Dana Thompson
 Get Me Started-Drawing Day
see workshop page for details
Travel with Your Sketchbook
with Avis Fleming
 Classical Drawing from Casts–
A Weekend Workshop
with Michael Davis (TBA)
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Drawing
for All Levels–
Wednesday Mornings
with Carmen Howell
Instructor:
Carmen Howell
Dates and Times:
Wednesdays, 10 am - 12:30 pm
Session 1 2012: Jan 11 - Feb 22
Session 2 2012: March 7 - April 18
Session 3 2012: May 2 - June 13
Cost:
$185 + $40 model fee
(4 model sittings)
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(7) 2-1/2 hour classes
Has anyone ever taught you to how to really SEE what you are looking at? In this seven-week class, you will learn to see and then learn to draw naturally. You will learn composition, line values and shadows and light at the same time. Organize spaces and forms, beginning with still life (three classes) and progressing to the human form (four classes). Students will gradually improve their skills and may repeat this course to advance their drawing skills. Geared to students of all levels.
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Classical Drawing
from Casts
with Michael Davis
Instructor:
Michael Davis
Dates and Times:
Tuesdays, 10 am - 1 pm
Session 1 2012: Jan 10 - Feb 14
Session 2 2012: March 6 - April 10
Session 3 2012: May 1- June 5
Cost: $185
(6) 3
hr. classes
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Cast drawing teaches the fundamental lessons needed for all artists. Not only does one train the eyes and mind to translate what they see and perceive, but it stresses the importance of seeing the larger picture in terms of light and dark before seeing the details within. Through making exact copies of a plaster cast an artist correctly learns to identify value, shape and form, and begins to understand proportion. These lessons will help all artists in further endeavors in still life, landscape and figurative work. First day of class is mandatory for students new to this instructor's class.
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Drawing
for All Levels–
Thursday Evenings
with Carmen Howell
Instructor:
Carmen Howell
Dates and Times:
Thursdays, 6:30 - 9 pm
Session 1 2012: Jan 12 - Feb 23
Session 2 2012: March 8 - April 19
Session 3 2012: May 3 - June 14
Cost:
$185 + $25 model fee
(2 model sittings)
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(7) 2-1/2 hour classes
Has anyone ever taught you to how to really SEE what you are looking at? In this seven-week class, you will learn to see and then learn to draw naturally. You will learn composition, line values and shadows and light at the same time. Organize spaces and forms, beginning with still life (five classes) and progressing to the human form (two classes). Students will gradually improve their skills and may repeat this course to advance their drawing skills. Geared to students of all levels.
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Drawing with an
Artist's Eye
with Ann Noel
Instructor:
Ann Noel
Dates and Times:
Mondays 10 am- 1 pm
or Thursdays 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Session 2 2012:
Mondays,
March 5 - April 9
or
Thursdays, March 8 - April 12
Session 3 2012:
Mondays,
April 30 - June 11
no class May 28 (Memorial Day)
or
Thursdays, May 3 - June 7
Cost: $185 + $25 model fee
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Learn to see with an “artist’s eye.” Discover mass and negative space to define form, shape, perspective and value. Explore composition and design while developing drawing skills and creativity. Students will draw still life, landscape and figure using pen, pencil and charcoal. Some stucents will draw and some will paint in this class.
(6) 3 hr. classes
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Drawing with
Pencil to Prismacolor
with Dana Thompson
Instructor:
Dana Thompson
Dates and Times:
Wednesdays, 6:30 pm - 9:30pm
Session 1 2012: Jan 11 - Feb 15 full
Session 2 2012: March 7 - April 18
no class April 4
Session 3 2012: May 2 - June 6
Cost: $185
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Draw? Yes you can! Students start with simple shapes as they define value, form and negative space in charcoal, conté and graphite. A progression to color explores the surprising and varied characteristics and techniques of colored pencil. Drawing drapery will be included. Advanced students may work from class still life or subject of their own choosing.
(6) 3
hr. classes
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Travel with Your Sketchbook
Workshop
with Avis Fleming
Instructor:
Avis Fleming
Date and Time:
Saturday and Sunday,
10 am - 3 pm each day
Session 3 2012: May 5 and 6
Cost: $175
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Increase your enjoyment of travel and other outdoor activities by keeping a sketchbook. In this two-day workshop, basic drawing techniques are adapted for speed and working in a smaller scale. Consideration is given to developing your sketches into more finished works. Day One at ArtSquare. Day Two in historic Leesburg.
10 hr. workshop
About the Artist: Avis Fleming was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in the bayou country south of the city. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she studied graphic arts and illustration at Pratt Institute. Avis currently teaches figure drawing and sketchbook drawing at the Art League School, in the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Va., where she has taught for over twenty years.
She is associated with “Discover Graphics Atelier” at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. She does her ceramics work with her husband, Paul Hodge, at the Art League School in the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Paul throws the pots that Avis paints with glazes.
She has had several one-person exhibitions in the greater Washington, D.C. area, most recently “Shoreline-Farmland“ at Oerth Gallery in Alexandria, in 2010. “The Sunday Series: African American Images by Avis Fleming” was exhibited at Alexandria’s Black History Museum in 2003.
In 2008 she exhibited at Gallery 222 in Leesburg, “Etchings, Monotypes and Watercolors by Avis Fleming”.
Her drawings, paintings and prints have won numerous awards.
Recent awards include “Best in Show” for “Mother and Daughter” at the Art League Gallery’s “La Femme” exhibition in 2008, juried by Sarah Tanguy at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Va., Honorable Mention in the Small Works show at the Art League Gallery in 2009 for the etching “Safe Harbor“, Honorable Mention at the Arlington Ellipse Arts Center’s 2004 “Prints! Prints! Prints!” exhibition, juried by Warren Corrado, for the lithograph “Sunday Silence”. She received First Place in Mixed Media, at the 2008 Neighborhood Show in The Plains, Virginia, juried by Peter Winant of George Mason University and WETA‘s Around Town. She received the distinguished Van Landingham Award at the 2008 Art League Patron’s show, the First Place Award in the July, 2000, All Media Exhibition at the Art League Gallery (juror, Jo Ann Lewis of the Washington Post), and the Print Award in the April, 2001, All Media Membership Show with Emphasis on Sculpture, at the Art League Gallery (juror, sculptor Joan Danziger). She was awarded First Place in Graphics, 2000, (juror, Bill Dunlop of Around Town) and First Place in Painting, 1994, (juror, Johanna Karelis of the Corcoran Gallery of Art) at the Neighborhood Show, The Plains, Va.
Other recent exhibitions include “The Art of Printmaking”, Gallery 222, Leesburg, Va., 2005; a four person show of drawings and paintings, “Natural Observations,” at the American Horticulture Society in November, 2000; and a show of Four Printmakers at the West Island Gallery in Bath, Me., in 2001. Her exhibition at the Loudoun campus of George Washington University, “Encounters with Cows”, was in 1995.
Avis started outdoor sketching under the guidance of Anthony Gross, the English printmaker, painter and illustrator, and has used her sketchbook drawings as a source for her graphic work and ceramics.
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Classical Drawing
from Casts–
A Weekend Workshop
with Michael Davis
Instructor:
Michael Davis
Dates and Times:
Saturday & Sunday 9 am - 4 pm
Next Session: TBA
Cost: $190
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Designed especially for students who cannot take class on weekday mornings, experience Michael Davis’s six-week drawing class as a weekend workshop.
Cast drawing teaches the fundamental lessons needed for all artists. Not only does one train the eyes and mind to translate what they see and perceive, but it stresses the importance of seeing the larger picture in terms of light and dark before seeing the details within. Through making exact copies of a plaster cast an artist correctly learns to identify value, shape and form, and begins to understand proportion. These lessons will help all artists in further endeavors in still life, landscape and figurative work. One-hour lunch break. Saturday morning session is mandatory for students new to this instructor's class.
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