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Drawing for Beginners (1.5 hrs) 2W25

Age Group: 
Adults

This class will be registerable on October 15th.

We’ll be covering the basics you need to begin your drawing journey! We’ll be talking about drawing from shapes, sketching places and figures, basic perspective, light and shadow, and more! Be prepared to explore visual concepts.

Make up date: 2/18/25

I wanted to learn a new skill and use the creative side of my brain.  Learning aspects of drawing I never thought about before, which was both enjoyable and practical.  I felt myself progressing through the class - I learned a lot and I am already signed up for another class!!

I signed up for this class because I wanted to practice and refine my drawing skills with the guidance of an instructor.  The class was just the right size--enough people to see some other examples of how people approach the projects, but never too many for us each to get individual attention.  The instructor, Eli, has an excellent way of communicating instructions and giving individual guidance as students are working on their drawings.  I really appreciated that this was not a “draw whatever you want” kind of class, but real technical instruction, which is exactly what I hoped for!

I took this class because I wanted to draw again and hopefully progress to watercolors.  By far, what I enjoyed the most about this class was the teacher--Eli is an excellent instructor!  I feel confident, having taken this class, to take a more advanced drawing class and eventually move on to watercolors.

 

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Eli Portman

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Eli Portman was born and raised in the Greater Boston area. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a Bachelors Degree in studio art in the spring of 2014.

Primarily focusing on drawing, Portman also experimented with oil painting and woodblock printmaking during his time at University. He has since returned to the Boston area, where he currently lives, and teaches art to children and adults. His artwork has been hung in galleries, shops and cafes throughout the Greater Boston Area. Portman is a member of the Copley Society of Art and was a featured artist in the Torosiete Online Art Museum. Portman has been hired for murals, private commissions, illustrations and more, and released a coffee table book of his art in 2017.

Specialty: 
Watercolor painting