Nature Drawing with Afsaneh Michaels _ Oct 30- Dec 11 , 2024_ Wednesdays _ 9:00-12:00 _ Studio 1
Nature Drawing with Afsaneh Michaels
October 30- December 11 , 2024 (seven weeks)
Wednesdays 9:00-12:00
Studio 1
Nature drawing has a way of bringing your body and soul in sync with
nature and helps you stay in the calm and quiet of the moment.
Drawing helps you concentrate your mind and helps you see the world
in a new way. Drawing is the kind of art practice that you can bring
into your home, on vacation, outdoors with friends, anywhere you wish
with just a small sketchbook and some pencils.
In this class we learn the fundamentals of visual thinking and drawing
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 make lively, interesting and beautiful
drawings. A wide range of materials and mediums are introduced
slowly in the class with demos.
In my classes we work together in a cohesive environment 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.
Intermediate students draw more complex scenery or a still life with
natural elements in it, 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.
Place: studio 1
Number of students: 17
Materials: Sketchbook: 93-120 Ibs. weight of your choice. Pencils: 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, F, H, 4H, 6H. Set of charcoal pencils. Pink/white eraser. kneaded rubber eraser. Pencil sharpener. Gray scale. Blending stumps. Small ruler,
Set of colored pencils if you choose color (Prismacolor is ideal but other brands work too).
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