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Nature Drawing and Fundamentals of Drawing_ Afsaneh Michaels_ March 5 – April 16_ Wednesdays  9:30-12:30 Studio 1

Nature Drawing and Fundamentals of Drawing

March 5 – April 16 , 2025

Wednesdays  9:30-12:30

Studio 1

 

Nature drawing has a way of bringing your body and soul in synch with nature and helps you stay in the calm and quiet of the moment. Drawing concentrates your mind and helps you see the world in a new way. In nature drawing you can bring natural things into your home, on vacation, outdoors with friends, anywhere you wish with just a small sketchbook and some pencils.

 

We learn the fundamentals of drawing and visual thinking in a detailed and methodical way over several weeks with a lot practice and attention from the instructor. You will learn about form, shading, line weight, and composition and color and make lively, interesting and beautiful drawings. A wide range of materials and mediums are gradually introduced along with demonstrations.

 

In my classes we work together in a cohesive environment without judgement where you get to see and appreciate a variety of art and inspire each other. You draw as beginners, intermediate students, and more experienced students all in one class, each group working on material appropriate to their group, overlaps are encouraged among the various levels.

 

Beginners learn the basics of form, line and value/shading and learn to draw branches, leaves, small flowers, fruits or vegetable, and an animal, bird or insect. At the end of class you’ll have at least one drawing with three or four components and probably more. Beginners come to the first class half an hour early to meet and greet and to get the beginner materials.

 

Intermediate students draw more complex scenery or a still life with natural elements in it, perhaps work on a series and learn to use color (optional) with colored pencils, pastels, or watercolor. This group produces several drawings, some in color and some in graphite or charcoal pencil.

 

More advanced students work with scale, tonal variation and more detail and color. A recent group of students made a series from four different flowers.

 

We will use pencils, charcoal, colored pencils, pens, but a lesser extent watercolor ( always combined with pencils or pens). Great emphasis is on drawing real specimens and not necessarily working from photos. Small things are brought into the studio or from your home as models.

 

Please come with your materials or at least a sketchbook and some pencils to the first class and learn about materials then.

Dates: March 5- April 16, 2025

Wednesdays: 9:30- 12:30

Class Fee: $210.00 Members.   $230.00 Non-members

Place: studio 1

 

Afsaneh Michaels, Instructor

Afsaneh A. Michaels is San Francisco Bay Area fine artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and teacher with over 30 years of creative experience.Afsaneh was raised from an early age in Europe and the U.S. She studied art and design at Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2000. After Edinburgh, Afsaneh over to Florence Italy where she studded drawing and painting. She has exhibited work in galleries around the Bay Area, and the east coast.In the early part of her career Afsaneh worked as an urban and country planner with the United Nations in Africa in Kenya and Malawi and later transitioned into art and exhibit design and worked at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi where she designed an exhibit for anthropologist, Richard Leakey. Later she worked at the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Designing exhibits and collaborating with colleagues in various International museums.Afsaneh has always been an artist and after Edinburgh she moved to Florence in Italy where she started teaching small groups of adults and children in painting and drawing. Afsaneh loves to teach and uses a coaching style- mentoring each individual, guiding and developing their vision and direction while building foundational skills towards the student’s art practice. www.AfsanehMichaelStudio.com