Fundamental Drawing & Painting Classes
with Lisa Duncan in
Marietta, GA

Shane McDonald Studios
585 Cobb Pkwy S, Studio K2
Marietta, GA 30060

Samples of beginning drawing

Lisa Archen Duncan demonstrates painting in her Saturday morning class

Summer 2025 Classes

4 week session:

Summer Series II
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
Painting
(10am-12pm)		 SUN
JUL 12
JUL 19
JUL 26
AUG 2
AUG 9

Fundamental Drawing & Painting

Saturday mornings 10 a.m. - 12 noon
July 12 - August 9, 2025
(Summer Series I ends June 28, 2025)

$124 for 4 class dates
Any session with a model will require $10 model fee per student.

E-mail Lisa to drop-in!

Students may choose to study drawing, oil painting, or both. Lisa's ongoing classes welcome individuals at any skill level, allowing each student to begin at their own pace and build upon previous experience through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, and independent work.

Lessons are personalized to suit each student’s progress. You may work alongside classmates on similar projects or explore different lessons tailored to your goals.

  • Beginning artists will learn how to use materials effectively and will be introduced to the fundamentals of value, color, and composition.
  • Intermediate artists will explore diverse techniques while reinforcing and expanding their existing knowledge.
  • Advanced artists will focus on refining their style, pushing creative boundaries, and deepening the skills they’ve already studied.

This class touches on the fundamentals of drawing and oil painting, including the following:

  • the use of oil painting supplies
  • canvas preparation
  • block-in techniques
  • capturing form through light and shadow
  • perspective
  • figure drawing
  • still life
  • mixing color
  • painting from photos
  • chiaroscuro
  • grisaille
  • glazing

Come join us and see what you can create!

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.

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 for painters:

  • 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

Recommended reading for learning to draw:

  • 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

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