Registration at The Drawing Studio is on a first-come, first served basis. If a class is full, we will maintain a waiting list, and if space opens up, notify people in the order they are listed. We do not take reservations for classes to be offered in the following session. A registration is not complete until a financial transaction has taken place.
Waiting until the last minute to register is not advisable. If a class does not have at least 5 people registered in the 3 or 4 days preceding the first session, we usually cancel the class.
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Classes meet at 33 South 6th Avenue unless otherwise noted.
All Supply lists available at time of registration
Painting Fundamentals Workshop
Taught by Mariana Carreras
March 27 (Friday) 1 – 4 PM, March 28, 29 (Sat & Sun.) 9 AM - Noon
Ideal for the beginner or recent oil painter, this workshop offers valuable information about all aspects of oil painting—from materials (brushes to stretching canvas), painting tips and techniques, follow-up procedures to a painting (varnishing and framing) to the basics of composition.
Fee: $90 (Associates $80)
Painting the Nude
Taught by Mariana Carreras
Six Friday afternoons, 1:30 – 4:30 PM
April 10 - May 15
Excellent for the beginner or seasoned painter, this course offers the opportunity to gain experience exploring the human figure as subject matter. We will discuss aspects of anatomy, different approaches, compositional choices, and learn from one another as we render classical nude poses. We’ll paint from models, see PowerPoint lectures, view demonstrations and share in-group critiques.
Fee: $165 (Associates $140) Includes Model Fees
Line and Wash Workshop
Taught by Ellen Fountain
Prerequisite: drawing skills helpful.
Two Saturdays, 9 AM – Noon
Mar. 21 & 28
We will focus on linear mark-making using a variety of wet and dry mediums in combination with watercolor washes. We'll begin with the traditional English "colored drawing" and include more contemporary mixed media approaches that emphasize line. Bring your sketchbook and/or photos, or set up a still life in the studio to work from. Some materials provided.
Fee: $65 (Associates $60)
Plein Air Watercolor Landscape Painting
Taught by Ellen Fountain
Prerequisite: watercolor painting experience helpful, but beginners welcome.
Six Wednesdays, 9 AM – Noon
Mar. 25 - Apr. 29
March 25 - Fountain Studio Backyard Wildlife Habitat (click for map)
April 1 - HoneyBee Canyon, Oro Valley (click for map)
April 8 - Juan Santa Cruz Picnic Area - Tucson Mountain Park (click for map)
April 15 - Feliz Paseos Park - Tucson Mountain foothills (click for map)
April 22 - Agua Caliente Park - Tucson East (click for map)
April 29 - Tohono Chul Park - NW Tucson (click for map)
We'll meet weekly at a different location in the Tucson area to paint directly from the landscape. Lessons will focus on some particular part of the landscape to help you deal with the apparent chaos of the natural world. If you've enjoyed drawing still life or the figure from observation, this can be a next step.
Fee: $150 (Associates $135)
Introduction to Watercolor Workshop
Taught by Ellen Fountain
Two Saturdays, 9 – 12 NOON
May 2 - May 9
This is a brief introduction to transparent watercolor painting. Use a limited palette of colors and practice color mixing, brushwork, washes, and edge control. You'll learn the difference between painting on dry paper and painting on wet/damp paper, and how to successfully layer or glaze one color over another. Suitable for anyone who wants to try watercolor - no experience needed!
Fee: $65 (Associates $60)
Abstract Painting Studio
Taught by Lisa Mishler
Section C:
Seven Mondays, 12:30 – 3:30 PM
March 30 – May 11
Section D:
Four Saturdays, 12:30 – 3:30 PM
April 11 – May 9 (no class April 25)
Ongoing personalized instruction in developing a personal “grammar” of mark-making and brush handling. Delve into the realms of abstract expression while honing your skills and intuitive thought processes. Learn what you want to say by being available for your intuitive responses to blossom. We will focus on composition, value, design, shape and (the big one) unity. Explore, have fun, build confidence. . . what a journey! Suitable for continuing abstract painters and those new to abstraction.
Fee: Section C: $160 (Associates $145); Section D: $110 ($100 Associates)
Acrylic Painting Studio
Taught by Cynthia Miller
Six Wednesday mornings, 9 – 12 Noon
Mar. 18 - April 22
Explore the transparency and luminosity of this water-based painting medium through still-life and master painting images. Working from observation and invention, construct a personal vocabulary with paint that best connects you to this time and place. Color mixing, value studies, and drawing with paint exercises will address the medium’s technical properties. View acrylic techniques and work of various painters in Tucson and the Southwest. Emphasis on individual goals and attention to every skill level.
Fee: $150 (Associates $135)
Mixed Media Painting Workshop
Taught by Cynthia Miller
Saturday, 10 AM – 4 PM
March 14
Combine acrylic paints, chalk, and pastels with oil paint stick to create richly colored, textured, and layered works on paper. Discover a new and unique “formula” for enhancing acrylic work and expanding your vision.
Fee: $80 (Associates $70); includes basic materials; additional materials available at cost
Splash of Oil
Taught by Betina Fink
Two Sundays, 1:30 – 4:30 PM
March 29 - April 5
An opportunity to try painting in oils without the investment of purchasing supplies. Participants experiment with basic oil painting fundamentals: mark making, blending, mixing color, and identifying color relationships.
Fee: $80 (Associates $70) includes all materials
Includes all materials.
Painting Studio with Betina Fink
Prerequisite: Drawing Fund, I and II or equiv.
Six Sundays, 1:30 – 4:30 PM
April 26 – June 14 (no class May 10 or May 24)
Not just for “Sunday Painters”! Course provides a thorough grounding in the practice of painting in oils or acrylic. The tools and techniques of brushwork, layering, glazing, color mixing, composition and subject matter are emphasized through technical exercises as well as working from observation.
Fee: $150 (Associates $135)
Ink Brush Painting-- Wet Mounting Class
Taught by Joy Mills
Saturday, 9 AM – Noon
April 18
For those who have taken Ink Brush painting and would like to learn the technique of mounting and preserving their work.
Fee: $30 (Associates $25
The Art of Enlightenment:
Sacred Art in Buddhism
Taught by Gen Kelsang Lingpur
Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM
May 9
Gen Kelsang Lingpur of Tara Mahayana Buddhist Center will introduce the iconographic principles of sacred Buddhist art. For over two and a half thousand years, Buddhists have practiced the art of depicting holy forms in paintings and statues. No prior art experience is necessary and everyone will complete a painting of the face of Buddha. If time allows, we will also practice painting the face on bronze statues. Everyone will also be provided with grids for a full-body painting (Tibetan: thangka) of Buddha Shakyamuni.
Fee: $60 (Associates, $55); includes all supplies
Watercolor Excursions with Rick Demont
Prerequisite: watercolor experience at the intermediate or advanced level
Sabino Canyon: Tuesday, April 21, 8:30 AM – 3 PM
An opportunity for experienced watercolor painters to work directly on-site under the tutelage of a watercolor artist whose work, says Andy Rush, “reflects a deep and poetic understanding of the desert.” Participants will receive coaching in the field and end the day with a group critique and suggestions for future practice. Participants should be able to hike short distances over moderate terrain.
Fee: one excursion, $65 (Associates $60); both excursions, $120 (Associates $105)
Introduction to Painting the Figure - Taught by Susan Johnson
Four Tuesday mornings, 9 AM – 12 NOON
Mar. 3 - 24
Students can enroll in this class as a stand-alone painting class or as part of the “Introduction to the Figure” drawing, painting, and sculpting series. Emphasis will be on longer poses, with continued exploration of anatomy and composition, and the addition of color studies. Students will complete one canvas each class session.
Fee: $125 (Associates $110) includes model fees
Xtreme Painting : Pursuing the Painting You Are Afraid to Paint- Taught by Josh Goldberg
Prerequisite: Completion of at least one abstract painting class at TDS. Limited to 13.
Eight Tuesday mornings, 8:30 – 11:30 AM
March 24 – May 19 (no class April 21)
CLASS IS FULL
Intermediate Encaustic Painting
Taught by Pat Dolan
Prerequisite: Intro to Encaustic or equiv. experience
Friday and Saturday, 10 AM – 4 PM
April 24 and 25
Explore encaustics from a painterly perspective. Demonstrations and hands-on work creating the magic qualities intrinsic to encaustics, including building transparent layers, layering colors for the most luminosity, and using drawings, watercolors, and pastels as the beginnings of an encaustic.
Fee: $185 (Associates $165), includes most materials
Classes at Casas Adobes Congregational Church
6801 N. Oracle Rd, Tucson
All Supply lists available at time of registration
Ink Brush Painting - Taught by Joy Mills
Tuesdays, 1 -4 PM
Basic I: March 3 and 10
Basic II: March 17 and 24
Wet Mounting: March 31
Attending to the rhythm and breath of producing the classic Japanese brush strokes hones our powers of inner observation. This "observation" is not just the commonplace sense of observing outward reality but is in finding the reality of what's "in here.” Traditional discipline merges with one’s inner reality into works of great harmony.
Fee: $125/4-wk session & mounting (Associates $110); $75/2-wk session & mounting (Associates $65); $30 mounting class only (Associates $25)
Pastel Studio
Taught by Pat Dolan
Six Tuesdays, 1-4 PM
April 7 – May 12
Use your prior experience with color theory and studies to explore this most painterly of dry media. Develop and deepen your ability to bring this medium to life through close attention to highlight and shadow, composition, variety and emphasis.
Fee: $150 (Associates $135)
Classes at the RLV OracleArt Wilson Barn, Oracle, AZ
All Supply lists available at time of registration
Classes in Green Valley
All Supply lists available at time of registration
The Practice of Abstract Painting
Santa Rita Springs Art Studio - Taught by Emilia Arana
Eight Wednesdays, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
March 4 – April 22
Note: This class is offered through Green Valley Recreation and requires membership in GVR; registration is also through GVR, www.gvrec.org or call any of the GV social centers.
Students will have the opportunity to explore approaches and vocabulary affiliated with abstract painting. The movement of paint in non-representational work will be integrated with concepts of design and drawing such as line, value, and color that are already familiar. Discussion will explore the development of an ongoing practice of abstract painting. Students work in acrylic on larger scale surfaces.
Fee: $250
Open Studio Sessions: Figure Drawing
All TDS open studio sessions are held at The Drawing Studio, 33 S. 6th Avenue. Each session is $7. No reservations are required.
Open Studio Schedule (Schedule beginning Jan. 4, 2009)
Sunday morning, 9:30 AM -12:30 PM, general studies (short to long poses)
Monday morning, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, general studies (short to long poses)
Tuesday evening, 6 -9 PM, one long pose, alternating weeks with costume and nude
Thursday evening, 6 -9 PM, general studies (short and long poses)
Call the office at (520) 620-0947 for holiday or special event closures.
See the TDS website at www.thedrawingstudio.org for Open Studio details; call the office at (520) 620-0947 for holiday or special event closures.
FEE: $7.00 for all open studio sessions. No reservations are required.
Meet our Open Studio Monitors
Erika Atwood, Tom Bielejec, Betty Counseller, Carolyn Gibbs, Larry Gray, Stephen Judy, Pete McCray, Paul Mohr, Rebecca Olson, Herb Powell
Under the direction of Rebecca Olson, the monitors have a variety of responsibilities, including scheduling and recruiting models, setting up lighting and props, maintaining financial records for each session, timing the poses, and clearing the studio space for its next use. Monitors are ambassadors for TDS and welcome new people to the sessions, introducing them to our programs and opportunities.
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