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Charcoal Drawing

With Priyanka Gawande

Starts Sep 10
From 600 US dollars
Upstairs Classroom

Available spots


Class Description

Beginner and Intermediate welcome WEEK 1 Lesson 1 :Materials & Mark-Making and Form & Volume Vine vs. compressed charcoal, basic mark types, paper selection. Drawing simple 3D forms, shading with blending stumps. WEEK 2 Lesson 2 : Still Life Drawing and contour lines Observation-based composition. Drawing what surrounds the subject, spatial awareness WEEK 3 Lesson 3: Negative Space and Composition Principles From observation-based composition or from reference. Still life project WEEK 4 Lesson 4: Hand and leg posture Study Drawing hand leg posture from photo reference with class . Start and finish hand and leg posture . WEEK 5 Lesson 5 : Head drawing Head movement with perspective. draw eyes , nose and ear and mouth WEEK 6 Lesson 6: Portrait Drawing Draw portrait from the reference. Complete the project and group critique Priyanka Gawande earned a master's degree in computer science before choosing to build her life around painting instead — an artist by choice, not circumstance. She holds an MFA in Painting from the prestigious Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, and has exhibited in numerous juried shows. Her work spans still life, landscape, and an ongoing series on weathered Americana, distinguished throughout by a rare control of reflective and weathered surfaces — chrome, glass, water, rust — rendered with a precision that rewards close, unhurried looking. Born in India, she now paints from the Bay Area. To view Supply list, copy & paste this url into a browser: https://d4aae0a9-696e-4cef-8cf1-2ebfa44c3f49.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4aae0_ce1c878d686a4145bf0b261eb18ad442.pdf


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510-523-6957

info@frankbettecenter.org

1601 Paru Street, Alameda, CA, USA


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Alameda, CA 94501​

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