Draw On! with Janet Bogardus — an hour-and-a-half class
that encourages you to learn such things as:
- drawing from your memory of what you’ve seen
- synchronizing hand and eye
- defining a subject using multiple lines or marks
- using varieties of wet and dry media
- evolving your own individual style of markmaking
- working through “mistakes”
- identifying lucky error, and
- going with the flow and not editing yourself.
All classes begin with activities to waken right-brain powers, followed by one or two projects exploring the landscape of drawing.
The class meets on Thursdays from 3 to 4:30 pm in the ballroom and is taught by Janet Bogardus, a Bay Area artist with over 12 year’s experience teaching drawing and painting to college students, seniors and children. She earned an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts at San Francisco State University, and currently focuses on acrylic painting incorporating mixed-media and drawing. Suggested donation is $5-10 per class.
The main book use for reference in the class is Drawing Projects, an Exploration of the Language of Drawing by Mick Masleh and Jack Southern. (Students do not need to buy this, but might want to get a copy from library to see the approach).