Drawing & Painting Classes
with Shane's guest instructors in
Marietta, GA

Fundamental Drawing and Painting
with Lisa (Archen) Duncan

Samples of beginning drawing

Samples of beginning drawing projects

New 2025 Classes

Fundamental Drawing

Friday evenings 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
January 10 - February 7, 2025
(4 of 5 classes allows for one "make-up" class)

$124 for 4 class dates
(5 available class dates allows for one "make-up" class)
Any session with a model will require $10 model fee per student.

This class is geared toward beginners, but is appropriate for intermediate artists as well. Through individualized exercises with a combination of demonstrations and hands-on experience, Lisa will help you gain confidence in your own drawing. Using still life, photos, and (when appropriate) models, class covers how to use various drawing materials, weight of line, composition, value, capturing form through light and shadow, reverse drawing and more. Come join us and improve your art!

Materials:
Please don't feel you must have everything. This is just a suggested list. Also, please bring the materials with which you most enjoy drawing.

  • Charcoal - vine:medium, stick or pencil:light/medium/hard, white
  • Papers - 9x12 charcoal toned (grey/brown/etc.), 9x12 smooth drawing
  • Blenders - one pack of mixed sizes
  • Erasers - kneaded and solid (any kind that works)

Recommended reading:

  • Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale
  • Techniques of Drawing by Howard Simon
  • A Guide to Drawing by Daniel M Mendelowitz and Duane A Wakeham

Fundamental Painting

Saturday mornings 10 a.m. - 12 noon
January 11 - February 8, 2025
(4 of 5 classes allows for one "make-up" class)

$124 for 4 class dates
(5 available class dates allows for one "make-up" class)
Any session with a model will require $10 model fee per student.

This class is geared toward beginners, but is appropriate for intermediate artists as well. Through individualized exercises with a combination of demonstrations and hands-on experience, Lisa will help you gain confidence in your own painting. Using still life, photos, and (when appropriate) models, class covers how to prepare canvases, block in a painting in several different ways, chiaroscuro and grisaille, glazing, capturing form through light and shadow, mixing color, and more. Come join us and see what you can paint!

Materials:
Please don't feel you must have everything. This is just a suggested list. Any art supply store should have what you need.

  • Canvas - several 9x12 canvas boards, 1 pad of 9x12 canvas paper (gray)
  • Brushes - small round 1, medium round 12, 2 medium filbert (or bright) 6, medium fan 3
  • Medium - odorless turpentine (or other odorless solvent), oil (any painting oil: walnut/linseed/galkyd), damar varnish
  • Paints - Titanium White, Ivory Black, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine Blue
  • Palette - one 9x12ish pad of palette paper, gray Jars with lids - one for cleaning brushes in turpentine (coil in bottom), one small for mixed medium, one small for clean turpentine. You can get a small metal two-pot clip-on, just make sure it has lids.
  • Brush cleaner - preferably The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver
  • Paper towels - preferably Viva with choose-a-sheet
  • Gloves - Some people prefer to wear disposable latex or nitrile gloves when painting.

Recommended reading:

  • The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing
    by Anthony Ryder
  • The Big Book of Drawing and Painting the Figure
    by Muntsa Calbo' I Angrill

Painting/Drawing Open Studio Class
with Allison Doke

painting of a tree in a California landscape

oil by Allison Doke

Fall, 2024 (Winter, 2025 info coming soon!)

Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
- and -
Wednesdays, 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
October 30 - December 11, 2024

$186 (or $31 per drop-in class)

6 week session:

MON TUE WED
(10:30am-1pm
3pm-5:30pm)		 THU FRI SAT SUN
OCT 30
NOV 6
NO MEETING
NOV 13
NOV 20
NOV 27
DEC 4
DEC 11

Students will work individually at their own pace over the course of 6 weeks. The focus will be on an expressive style of painting while applying some basic principles of art: composition, value, and color. Allison will do several short demos during the 6 weeks.

Please email Allison ([email protected]) with questions and images of your work (if you have any). This will help her tailor the class to your level.

Allison typically teaches painting with the use of either oil or acrylic paints. Please bring some pencils and a small notebook for thumbnail sketches. Bring what you have to the first class and she can recommend other supplies.