Online Workshop Instructor: Erica Beade Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Join us for a two-hour online sketching workshop exploring techniques for capturing birds and mammals with pencil and paper. We’ll start with some techniques for quickly sketching animals, and also focus on accuracy techniques, drawing eyes in a way that brings your animal drawing…
Animal Decoration
Online Workshop Instructor: Rachel Mirus Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Many animal bodies are adorned with spots and stripes, patterns that look different but are mathematically similar. We will look at how these body decorations are created, how they are similar and different, and how simple observational drawing strategies can help us better appreciate…
Sketching & Mindfulness
Online Workshop Instructor: Erica Beade Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Join us for this two-hour online workshop where we’ll explore how sketching can be a practice for deepening mindful awareness of our surroundings, and how mindful awareness can enrich our sketching practice by helping us quiet inner voices. Using natural objects as our subject…
Growing Beauty: How Growth in Nature Creates Spirals and Fractals
Online Workshop Instructor: Rachel Mirus Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers Familiar natural shapes, like spirals or the branching of plants, recur in fascinating and beautiful diversity, and are often the result of simple patterns for growth. We will use observational drawing to explore a few of the many kinds of spirals, branching patterns, and…