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Drawing, Painting, and More
Discover your inner artist! Continuing Education provides non-credit art classes to adults of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of artistic experience. Learn how to draw, paint, sculpt & more!
In this class, learn to make one-of-a-kind jewelry using liquid enamel and a torch.
Emphasis will be on exploration and experimentation, as a variety of applications
including layering, over-firing, painting, and sgrafitto will be used to get intense
color effects. A variety of cold connections for assembling pieces will be covered,
as time permits. Masks will be required while in the classroom. (A $45 supply fee
is included).
This 4-week course will teach you how to design your own characters for Comics, Animation,
Film and Games. Students will start with rough sketches, slowly refining their ideas
into a polished portfolio piece and learn how to bring their stories to life through
art.
Learn the techniques of classical drawing, using the proven methods taught by the
Renaissance Masters and 19th century French Ateliers. Working with graphite and charcoal,
students will learn how to draw with correct proportions and refined shading techniques.
Students start with beginning exercises, and progress to chiaroscuro shapes and cast
drawing eventually leading to drawing a live, clothed model. Supply List: 1 “3 Pack”
General Charcoal Pencils (Either “Traditional Wood” or “Peel and Sketch”); 1 Pack
of Vine Charcoal; 1 Pack of Compressed Charcoal; 1 Kneaded Eraser; 1 Chamois cloth;
Tortillion Blending Stumps; 1 Exacto blade; 1 sheet of fine sandpaper; 1 18x24 Drawing
Pad series 300 or 400 paper; Krylon Workable Fixative.
Classical painting techniques are taught in this class using the proven methods of
Renaissance Masters and 19th century French Ateliers. Working with a limited pallet,
students will learn color mixing, brushwork, and edge control in this six-week course.
Similar to the Classical Drawing course, students will start with beginning exercises,
and progress to chiaroscuro shapes and cast painting, eventually leading to painting
from a live, clothed model. Supply List: 6- 9x12 Canvases; Oil Paints (1 Tube of 37
ml Titanium White, 1 Tube of 37 ml Ivory Black, 1 Tube of 37 ml Yellow Ochre, 1 Tube
of 37 ml Terra Rosa or Burnt Sienna, 1 Tube of 37 ml Ultramarine Blue, OPTIONAL COLORS:
1 Tube of 37 ml Viridian Green, 1 Tube of 37 ml Cadmium Red); Gesso; White Taklon
Paint Brushes - 10 Piece Set; Palette Knife; Paper Towels Roll; Palette Paper pad
or Roll of wax paper; Silicoil Brush Cleaning Tank; Liquin; Turpenoid.
For information on degree programs and for credit courses in art, music, theatre and entertainment technology and arts events open to the community visit the GCSC Visual and Performing Arts website.