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Classes at Pratt:

Oil Painting Fundamentals

Oil painting is a vibrant and versatile medium. In this beginning class, learn the basics from preparing surfaces and choosing and organizing your color palette, to exploring brushwork and painting mediums. You will work from a variety of sources, including still-lifes and historical references. While developing skills in oils, you will learn how to create structure, volume, and atmosphere in your painting by using value, color, and brush work. A particular focus will be on the important role of value (light and dark) in painting. Prerequisite: None

This class is for anyone with previous oil painting experience who wants to refresh their knowledge or develop their technique. Expand your knowledge of color, composition, and personal expression through painting from observation, creating master-copies, and individual projects. You will take an in-depth look at mixing color, organizing a color palette, and the role of color in your artistic development. Receive feedback through one-on-one and group critiques. Prerequisite: Oil Painting Fundamentals or equivalent

Classes at North Seattle Community College in Continuing Education:

Introduction to Drawing

This class offers beginning students experience with a variety of drawing mediums while developing visual skills essential to sound drawing practice. Factors of spatial representation, texture, composition, and expression will be addressed

Life Drawing

Offers students with beginning and intermediate drawing experience an opportunity to draw the human figure. The class will focus on accurately capturing proportion and posture of the human form. Male and female models will be studied for eight weeks, following a preliminary review of human anatomy. Bring a 18" x 24" pad of newsprint (100 sheets), two pack of 2B Conte (black or brown) and a drawing board for the first day of class; an additional materials list will be available then. Price includes model fee.

Classes with Emily Gherard