All upcoming Studio Arts: Drawing classes

Capturing the likeness of an individual is a time-honored, essential tradition in art. In this class, students are introduced to the basic steps of how to create a convincing portrait using charcoal or graphite.

Bring your inner naturalist to draw mushrooms on coquille board, a textured paper that reduces drawn lines to a stipple-like pattern resembling a mezzotint. Experiment with a variety of colored media on this unique surface.

Create a powerful personal record of experiences by drawing and painting moments from your life to include in your sketchbook.

This introductory course teaches the basic skills needed for drawing. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, including charcoal and pencils, students explore the rendering of geometric forms, volume, and perspective, with an emphasis on personal gesture marks.

In this intermediate-level class, students revisit fundamentals of human anatomy and experiment with techniques and approaches.

Travel the world with the summer edition of Sketching the Smithsonian as you take an artful break and explore the fascinating, vast collections of this extraordinary museum.

Learn to use the iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate for illustration and animation. Students get an introductory lecture on the basics of digital art production, demonstrations, and experience drawing in Procreate on an iPad.

Travel the world with the summer edition of Sketching the Smithsonian as you take an artful break and explore the fascinating, vast collections of this extraordinary museum.

Travel the world with the summer edition of Sketching the Smithsonian as you take an artful break and explore the fascinating, vast collections of this extraordinary museum.

Bring your drawings to life by controlling subtle nuances of tone with a careful selection of the surface on which you are working. Learn how to observe negative and positive space and then describe a form on toned paper using contour line and highlights.