Drawing Camp: Learn to draw in 9 weeks!

Practice makes perfect! This weekly drawing class is designed for beginners and anyone who wants to systematically brush up on their skills.

This course takes a unique and holistic approach to developing your drawing skills, taking into account the interplay between body, mind, and spirit. This course is ideal as an after-work activity to relax both body and mind.

Why draw? The instructor likes to view drawing as the framework or grammar of the visual arts. It is a precise method for deciphering what is seen. Drawing challenges you to truly understand the logic of what you see. Drawing helps develop a steady hand, a precise eye, and a logical understanding of shapes and shading.

The session begins with a full-body warm-up exercise, followed by a concentration meditation in which participants practice guiding their hand as their mind directs. Then they move on to the main part of the course: practicing the depiction of specific objects, living beings, and environments. In doing so, they will explore various techniques of drawing with pencil on paper (hatching, lines, smudging, and surface rendering).

Everything you see can be drawn on paper using different approaches. The instructor will teach you all the techniques so you can discover which approach suits you best (grid; visual estimation and angles; measuring with hand and pencil; “becoming” what you see; drawing as writing).

At the end, everyone will share their experiences (debriefing).

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