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Classes & Workshops

Figure Drawing (Open)

Thursday, January 30. 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
6:30-9:00pm | Toledo Artists’ Club

Join other artists for a monthly drop-in session of life drawing from a live, undraped model. Poses will range from 1 minute to 60 minutes. Tables and chairs are available to use. Bring your own drawing materials. Cost is $10 for each 2.5 hour session. Relaxed, respectful, non-judgmental atmosphere. No instruction, just people who love drawing the human figure.

Figure Drawing 

5 Wednesdays, January 29th-February 26th 
12:30-3:30pm | Toledo Art Museum

Interested in advancing your drawing skills? This class allows students the opportunity to study the human form from live, nude models and figurative works in the Museum’s collection. Previous drawing experience encouraged.  

$135 for nonmembers of the Toledo Museum of Art, 10% off for members

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Drawing Bootcamp: Perspective 

Monday, January 27
Monday, February 3
Monday, February 10
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. | Toledo Artists’ Club

In this class we will introduce and practice the skills you need to become excellent at drawing. 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.

Toledo Artists’ Club members $95.00
Others $110.00

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About the Artist

I have been teaching college students, adult learners and high school students “how to see” since 2007.  “I can’t draw” and “I don’t know anything about art” is the perfect place to start! Watercolor, Oil painting, drawing, and figure drawing are my areas of expertise. I bring my love for art history into the studio classroom, using images of the past to help us understand the power of visual communication and the amazing capacity of inert materials to speak to our souls.

Speaking

I love speaking to classes, small groups and congregations about my art and about how the Church has used art over the centuries. I also love giving tours of Christian art at local museums. I’ve presented in parishes, galleries, and college classrooms as well as at special events hosted by CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts). Every presentation is accompanied by beautiful, inspirational images from the past and present.

Past topics include:

  • Images of Mary (and how those images can help us understand her better)
  • Symbols in religious art
  • Artists as Custodians of Beauty
  • Art and Incarnation
  • Art and Catholic Culture
  • Images of St. Thomas More
  • Art and Vocation
  • Foundations of Faith and Buildings of Beauty: How Churches Teach the Faith

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Courtesy ©Heidi Bratton Photography

Work with Me

Are you interested in having me speak to your parish, group or class? Would you like private lessons or artist mentoring services? Send me a message today and let’s talk!

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