ONLINE SEMINAR: Reframing the Ordinary: Drawing with Stuart Shils (FULL!)

LEVEL: All Levels

MEDIUM: Drawing

REFRAMING THE ORDINARY: Drawing with Stuart Shils is a three-day drawing seminar exploring the possibility of locating yourself graphically in the moment.

These three lively mornings will explore the relationship between drawing and observation, examining how close and clarified observation can hone our visually analytical minds, regardless of what it is we are looking at. 

Each day will begin with either a slide talk or a guided conversation exploring issues like: 

• visual confidence

• the meaning of simplification

• the shaping and reshaping expectations

• where to begin and how to begin

• what matters on paper.

Followed by a sequence of guided exercises intended as tools for carrying back to your workaday studio lives. 

This is not about recipes nor techniques but rather, addressing the evolution and structure of your own visual literacy.

Class Schedule:

Thursday 3/4 - Zoom Lecture with Stuart, 6:30PM - 8:00PM (Open to the public)

Friday 3/5 - 10:00AM - 2:00PM

Saturday 3/6 - 10:00AM - 12:30PM *

Sunday 3/7 - 10:00AM - 12:30PM *

+ Following the class, a 30-minute individual meeting/conversation with each participant at a time convenient for each person with the instructor.

*Session may run over 12:30PM

Materials include:

Pencils 

Copy paper

Black construction paper

Simple scissors

Elmers glue or glue stick or tape

A straight edge

Dark and light crayon OR a dark and light marker OR a dark and light colored pencil

Complete materials list will be sent to students before the start of the class.