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Online Class - Drawing to Learn - June 2024
We can all draw.
None of us is born “talented” or “not talented.” It is a skill that we learn.
And here’s an interesting fact: our brains love to learn, so much so that the more you push your brain to learn a new skill, the more neural pathways develop. So you get better not only at what you are learning, but at many other mental skills. You get smarter!
I like to say that learning a skill such as drawing is like learning a language. You are not born knowing how to talk. You learn it.
This course is going to teach you the words and grammar you need for the language of drawing, and we are going to use a technique that is proven to work:
We will DRAW TO LEARN, not learn to draw!
This two-day, five-part course Drawing to Lear with Roseann Hanson includes:
Lesson 1 - Study Your Subject
Learn how to intensely observe a subject in order to collect the “words” you need for your drawing language.
Lesson 2 - Make Marks
Practice those new words by making marks that represent your subject—this is a critical building block in unleashing the power of your drawing language.
Lesson 3 - Find Shapes
This exercise is critical for beginning to learn the “grammar” of your subject in order to get the context right.
Lesson 4 - Create Your Study Sketch
You will learn how to get proportions right—proportion is like the advanced grammar in this langauge of drawing;
You will learn to dip into your Marks to add characteristics to your subject, and check the shapes.
Lesson 5 - Dive into Details
Our final lesson brings us back to the study notes in Step 1, coming full circle to finish up our process of Drawing to Learn.
Live, online course: $75
two days:
June 1 AND june 8, 2024
9 AM – 12 pM ARIZONA TIME
Online Class - Drawing to Learn - Course 1, Trees
We can all draw.
None of us is born “talented” or “not talented.” It is a skill that we learn.
And here’s an interesting fact: our brains love to learn, so much so that the more you push your brain to learn a new skill, the more neural pathways develop. So you get better not only at what you are learning, but at many other mental skills. You get smarter!
I like to say that learning a skill such as drawing is like learning a language. You are not born knowing how to talk. You learn it.
This course is going to teach you the words and grammar you need for the language of drawing, and we are going to use a technique that is proven to work:
We will DRAW TO LEARN, not learn to draw!
This two-day, five-part course Drawing to Learn, Workshop #1 – Trees with Roseann Hanson includes:
Lesson 1 - Study Your Subject
Learn how to intensely observe a subject in order to collect the “words” you need for your drawing language.
Lesson 2 - Make Marks
Practice those new words by making marks that represent your subject—this is a critical building block in unleashing the power of your drawing language.
Lesson 3 - Find Shapes
This exercise is critical for beginning to learn the “grammar” of your subject in order to get the context right.
Lesson 4 - Create Your Study Sketch
You will learn how to get proportions right—proportion is like the advanced grammar in this langauge of drawing;
You will learn to dip into your Marks to add characteristics to your subject, and check the shapes.
Lesson 5 - Dive into Details
Our final lesson brings us back to the study notes in Step 1, coming full circle to finish up our process of Drawing to Learn.
Special introductory offer for live, online course: $75
two days:
SEPTEMBER 30 AND OCTOBER 7, 2023
9 AM – 11:30 AM ARIZONA TIME
Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference 2023
Join me for the 2023 Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference—I’ll be appearing and teaching several times with 25 other international instructors. I’ll be teaming up with the popular Instagram duo Ben Goulet-Scott and Jacob Suisse known as Let’s Botanize to take you on a virtual field trip to Panama, and I’ll be leading a panel on Adventure Nature Journaling!
The conference is 100% online, and five days long—the cost for all five days is equivalent to just $6 per class!
The dates are September 13 to 17, 2023, from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 pm Pacific each day!
Buy tickets at the Wild Wonder Foundation website: https://www.wildwonder.org/wild-wonder-nature-journaling-conference-2023
Meet all of the teachers & speakers
Learn about P22, the mountain lion in the conference art by John Muir Laws.
Free Online Workshop - Creative Night Skies
How do you journal night skies? It's always been a love-hate thing for me—I love tracking the stars and planets and finding constellations, but depicting them in journals can be challenging!
In this free online workshop, we will work on four different approaches:
Pre-painted watercolor skies on which you can add sky components live or after a sky-viewing telescope session (a technique inspired by Alaska artist Kristin Link);
Making a cutaway peek-a-boo window showing day-and-night;
Using Sharpies and white, silver, or other metallic pens and pencils; and
Using black paper and white, silver, or other metallic pens, pencils, and paint.
WHEN: Saturday, September 9 at 9 am AZ time (use a time converter to make sure you pick the right time for your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html )
COST: Free but registration is required (link below)
HOW: Register now via Zoom at this link >HERE<
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
Journal with or sheets of watercolor paper;
Paint colors: Indigo, Pthalo Blue (Green Shade), Quinacridone Rose or similar, Burnt Sienna (mine are Daniel Smith but any brand will do);
Hair dryer;
White gel pen (the best is Uniball Signo;
White and red colored pencils;
For fun if you have them: metallic paints or pens and pencils;
Black Sharpie;
Black paper.