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Drawing: Find Your Improvisational Line 1W27

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.

MAKE-UP DATE: 3/11/27

 

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Stina Hals

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:

A message from the instructor with a guide on how to buy drawing supplies below:

Art supply stores are addicting, and my favorite way to buy drawing supppies is to go in person and wander the aisles. This way you can intuitively discover your favorite drawing materials, feel paper texture and weight, and even test out pencils and pens before you purchase.

Suggested places where to buy supplies:

What to Buy: Drawing Tools (listed in order of necessity)

  • Grease Pencil / China Marker (such as Sharpie Peel Off China Marker)
  • Charcoal Pencils 1 Soft and 1 Hard (such as General's Original Charcoal Pencils, classic #557)
  • Blending Stump (such as Art Alternative Blending Stump #4)
  • Conté à Paris Pencil (Brown + White) (such as Conté à Paris Drawing & Sketch Pencil)
  • Technical Drawing Pen (such as Blick Student Pigment Liner Black)
  • Hand-held Steel Pencil Sharpener (such as Maped Hand-held Metal Sharpener)
  • Kneaded Eraser
  • Vinyl Eraser
  • Walnut Ink small bottle
  • Watercolor Brush (such as Princeton round #6 - for use with walnut ink)
  • Sandpaper Pencil Sharpener Pad

What to Buy: Drawing Papers (listed in order of necessity)

  • Newsprint Tablet (such as Blick Studio Newsprint Pad)
  • White Drawing Paper Tablet (such as Blick White Sulphite Drawing Paper)
  • Toned Drawing Paper Singles or Tablet (such as Strathmore 400 Recycled Toned Sketchpad)
  • Single Sheet Drawing Papers (in various textures and tones: brown, grey, off-white)
  • Small Pocket Sketch Book (such as Sakura Hardcover Sketchbook)
  • Vellum Papers (buy sheets individually)
  • (Optional) Handmade Papers (buy sheets individually)