Drawing: Find Your Improvisational Line 1F26
Age Group:
Adults
Approach drawing the way a jazz musician approaches improvisation. In this eight-week class, students will explore a variety of drawing materials, techniques, and surfaces while developing a more personal and expressive approach to drawing.
Working from still lifes, botanical subjects, and everyday observations, students will experiment with Conté crayon, Sharpie and ballpoint pens, sumi ink, walnut ink, and other drawing tools. Along the way, students will learn techniques including continuous line drawing, cross-contour drawing, sketchbook practice, and working at different scales.
Students will also explore how different papers and drawing surfaces influence a drawing, from traditional drawing papers to found materials such as maps. Examples from contemporary and historical artists will provide inspiration throughout the class.
By the end of the session, students will have developed greater confidence in observation and rendering while creating a body of drawings that reflects their own unique approach to line and mark-making.
Suitable for beginners and students with prior drawing experience.
Students will receive all materials from the instructor. A $35 materials fee is payable directly to the instructor on the first day of class.
SKIP DATE: 10/22/26
MAKE-UP DATE: 12/10/26
Stina Hals
Stina Hals is an interdisciplinary artist, from Jamaica Plain, combining the immediacy of drawing with the tactile processes of printmaking. Her drawing practice includes sketchbooks, life drawing, portrait drawing, and experimentation with diverse mediums. She carries a sketchbook with her much of the time, to make quick drawings on the subway, on the bus, on vacations, in museums - or wherever life takes her. Drawings inform her printmaking, and her prints are found in local exhibitions, in New England and in California, and in private collections. Stina first learned drawing and printmaking at the University of California Santa Cruz and, later, in coursework at Mass College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Stina is a member of the Full Tilt Cooperative Printmaking Studio in Dedham. In addition to art making, Stina has a 25+ year long career as a public health and non-profit community development professional, designing support programs for people living with HIV/AIDS and drug addiction and evaluating homelessness response systems.
Instagram: @stinahalsart
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Materials to bring to class:
Students will receive all materials from the instructor. A $35 materials fee is payable directly to the instructor on the first day of class.