Flower class: New June dates

Drawing Flowers in Color

It's spring! Join me for an exploration of flowers and plants in the versatile mediums of aquarelle pencils and aquarelle crayons. Starting in pencil and charcoal to focus on gesture, structure and value, we'll switch to aquarelles to capture color ideas and explore composition. Develop your drawings using techniques from hatching and pastel-like effects through translucent washes and opaque layers. Working from still life arrangements indoors and from plants at the Conservatory at Volunteer Park, you'll learn simple ways to organize complex subjects that can be applied to anything you look at, including contour, shapes, spaces, relationships, and value. In addition, discover ways to draw out the abstract elements in your subject and develop surprising, original compositions with line, pattern, shape and color. The class includes some essential color theory and lots of technical tips, as well as a look at flowers and plants in art history for inspiration and information. A springy spirit of experimentation is encouraged as we delve into nature's jewel-box. All levels welcome, no experience necessary.

Tuesdays 

10:30-1:30 

June 9-30

(June 9, 16, 23, 30)

4 sessions $144

Email me to register

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Locations: 

June 9, 23

University Heights Building 

5031 University Way NE, Room 211 

Seattle, WA 98105 

206-527-4278

 

June 16, 30

Conservatory

Volunteer Park

1402 East Galer Street

Seattle, WA 98112 

206-322-4112

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Image:

Vincent van Gogh

Irises, 1889

Oil on canvas

28 x 37"

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Heads up! Portrait drawing, continued

Registration is now open for part two of Portrait Drawing.

Portrait Drawing 2: Form and Volume

In the continuation of Portrait Drawing: The Human Head, you learn to make increasingly three-dimensional heads in both line and value. Heighten the sense of volume, solidity and space in your drawings with an in-depth study of the head's sculptural qualities coupled with some useful anatomical information. Starting with pure line, discover the "inner" surfaces of the head and face and find out how exterior lines relate to interior planes. Then, following line and plane into volume, learn the important concept and technique of modeling the form to build a convincingly 3-d head on your page. Finally, you work with light and shadow to reveal form and create exciting depth and atmosphere, using both additive and subtractive techniques in pencil and charcoal. Art history continues to be an important part of our studies as we work from both reproductions and live models. Pre-requisite: Portrait Drawing: The Human Head 1, or permission of instructor. 

SECTION 1

Wednesdays

10:30-1:30

May 13-June 24

(May 13, 20, 27; June 3, 10, 17, 24 )

7 sessions

$252

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SECTION 2

Fridays

1:30-4:30

May 8-June 26

No class June 5

(May 8, 15, 22, 29; June 12, 19, 26)

7 sessions

$252

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Location:
University Heights Building
5031 University Way NE, Room 211
Seattle, WA 98105

Email me to register

Please let me know which section you are signing up for. 

Thank you!

Museum visit NEW DATE: Sunday, April 19

Please note that the date for our visit to the Garden and Cosmos exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum has changed:

The new date is Sunday, April 19 from 1:30-4:30.

See below for details.

Join me for sketching, informal lecture, discussion and exploration of this extraordinary show, followed by dinner at a nearby restaurant (TBA).

"Blossom Cluster of Delight"

I picked up a postcard of this painting in Boston and it's on my studio wall right now - what a delight to find the image on the Harvard's Sackler Museum website so I can share it here. Apparently, beetle-wing cases were used in its making, see below. How's that for mixed media?

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Image:
Unknown Artist
A Nayika and Her Lover: Page from a Dispersed Rasamanjari Series (Blossom Cluster of Delight), c. 1660-1670
Painting
Indian, 17th century
Basohli, Kashmir, India
Opaque watercolor, gold, and beetle-wing cases on paper
actual: 23.4 x 33 cm (9 3/16 x 13 in.)
Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1972.74

Museum visit NEW DATE: Sunday, April 19

Join me for the next Julia's Studio Museum Visit to

Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur

Seattle Asian Art Museum

Sunday, April 19

1:30-4:30

$42 (non-SAM-member)

$33 (SAM member)

There is nothing like looking at paintings from another country to bring home the mystery (and delight) of cultural perspective. These lush images burst with life and story, and at the same time they present visual viewpoints quite different from conventional western ones. Let's look for ways to understand the stories as well as the visual elements of the paintings by noticing connections to other work, discussing what we see, and sketching the paintings to make them our own.

All are welcome to join me for an early dinner following the class at a restaurant nearby, TBA.

Read Jen Graves' review of this gorgeous show in the Stranger.

Contact me to reserve your space. 

Heads you win

Register now for Portrait Drawing: The Human Head

Learn to draw heads in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere using concepts that can be applied to any subject. This class banishes myths and fears about drawing people by introducing concepts one by one, simplifying the human head into basic shapes and forms. In addition to understanding structure in both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional terms, we learn techniques to capture character and gesture, working up to portraits that have both form and life. Working from master reproductions, photographs, each other, live models, and ourselves, you will learn to use the scribble, contour, core lines, relative points, negative space, adjacent shape, and light and shadow to build sculpturally convincing, abstractly satisfying and humanly expressive heads. As always there will be a strong art history component to the class as we refer to master works for hot tips and inspiration. Lots of demos and individual attention. No experience necessary.

SECTION 1

Fridays

1:30-4:30

March 6, 13, 20, 27 and April 3, 10, 17, 24 

8 sessions

$288

SECTION 2

Wednesdays

10:30-1:30

March 11, 18, 25 and April 1, 8, 15, 22,29

8 sessions

$288

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Location:

University Heights Building

5031 University Way NE, Room 211

Seattle, WA 98105

527-4278

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Email me to register and for payment and location information. Spaces are limited, sign up soon. Thank you!

Rembrandt van Rijn

Self-Portrait, 1631

Etching

Welcome to Julia's Studio

Julia's Studio is a private art school for anyone interested in drawing, painting, and learning to make art with the guidance of an experienced teacher and professional artist. I teach at my home studio in Seattle. Classes are small with lots of individual attention and range from ongoing, full-year courses of 8 weeks each, through a series of two- and four-week focus classes on a wide array of topics, to one-day museum visits.

Coming up in the 8-week Julia's Studio class series is Drawing the Human Head.

In addition, private mentoring is available for all levels from beginning to professional. Delve into a skill you need help on, or receive thoughtful and constructive feedback on a body of work. Rate is $70 per hour, $105 for and hour and a half, and $135 for 2 hours. Email me to set up a time.

It's cold out there! Come on over, bring your paper and pencils, have a cup of coffee in my studio with a view, and warm yourself in the study of that most worthwhile of human pursuits: the making of art.