All of the drawings on this page were produced by participants from St. Charles' Senior Community Center whose ages range from 60 years to mid 90's. The Beginning Drawing Class began in August of 2013 and meets once a week for an average of 2 hours per class. Assignments focus on training to draw what is seen, learning art vocabulary and concepts, basic drawing techniques, applying art elements and design principles to drawings and developing discipline and creativity through imagination and exploration of related art concepts. Class members actively participate in review critiques scheduled at the completion of each assignment as a means to apply important terms and concepts related to the assignment.
Drawing Class Assignments
Note: Many of the drawings displayed on this page reflect the assignments below-
*Learning to draw what we see; not what we know
*Blind contour drawing
*Contour
*Pattern and texture drawings
*Value drawings
*Life drawings
*Contrast
*Composition: understanding art elements and
design priniciples
*linear and atmospheric perception
*Scale and proportion exaggeration and
distortion
*Imagination
*Shape embedding (foreground and background
*Portraits
*Narrative drawings
*Small scale drawings
*Upside down drawings
*Less dominant hand drawings
*Drawing collages
*Holiday collage cards
*Monoprinting/artist edition