Drawing Classes in San Francisco, CA

Students with experience measuring proportions can further refine their skills though the exploration of foreshortening, perspective, composition and the treatment of varied surfaces. Longer drawing time allow for reflection and additional instructor feedback as you work through individual challenges.  Use the drawing media of your choice as you...

Liberate your ability to use line and marks in your paintings and delight in our own inner vocabulary as you create gestural abstracts. In this hands-on, experiential workshop you will use large and small, common and uncommon tools/brushes to explore, learn techniques and create drawings and paintings with your own unique marks.  A great workshop...

Gain confidence in your art-making by sharpening your representational drawing skills with charcoal, graphite and ink. A warm-up is followed by direct instruction, then individual practice.  Learn composition, measurement, and rendering of 3D objects including the human head. Work on optional assignments or watch instructional videos curated by...

In this five week course we will delve into the world of illustration! We will learn about illustration as a communicative art that is used to narrate books, magazines, newspapers, and advertising. Illustrators must create eye catching work, but also be able to hold an audience with a story and a message. We will learn the process of making a successful...

Improve brush handling, color mixing, and simplifying a complex topic into its most important elements through painting sketches. Free yourself from the stresses of always working on a finished painting! Allow yourself to learn quickly by embracing learning as the ultimate goal.  We will be executing two painting sketches per class, focusing...

This class celebrates the fun of drawing while inspiring the playful side of this basic visual art form. We will do drawing games and activities, working together and as individuals. We will be using drawing to explore art in as many ways as we can imagine, dance drawing, team drawing, mirror drawing, window drawing.  This will include playing...

Inventing a Narrative with M. Louise Stanley Back by popular demand, this workshop with M. Louise Stanley focuses on the ideas development process. Stanley will share her sketchbooks and postcard collection then lead students through an exercise to create their own narrative-driven artwork. The Richmond Art Center will supply basic materials or students...

This class covers the basics in recognizing and recording inspiration, drawing exercises, composition, perspective, presentation, proportion, balance, harmony, creating a stitch plan and more. Equipment Needed: All materials are supplied but a notebook is recommended in case you wish to take notes.

This class encompasses all aspects of making a stained glass panel, from design and production to mounting the work in a 10x10 inch frame, lit with LED lighting. Many samples will be created, with one frame and LED lights provided to each student to professionally mount and display a work made in class! Techniques covered including painting,...

Get started with linocut printmaking and learn techniques of carving and printing. We will begin designing our linocuts with a strong and tight drawing to get the best possible print. We will look at historical block printing such as posters and tarot cards for inspiration. Materials fee of $35 due to instructor day of.

Students will build on their knowledge of mold making as they explore more intricate and complex forms to cast in glass. Emphasis will be placed on planning and intent as students create one or several pieces based on their ideas.  Different molding materials, including plaster, silica and flexible mold materials such as latex. Molds of objects...

Explore the techniques of monotype: applying paint and printing ink directly onto a plexiglass surface and passing it through an etching press. Allowing only one print, monotype is not intended for production but rather for the expressive and painterly effects that cannot be achieved by other printmaking. Brayers, paint brushes, drawing tools and paper...

Never picked up a needle or haven’t since you were young? Join us for Bite-Size Embroidery for Beginners. Easy and fun, you will leave with a completed embroidery! Learn chain stitch, satin stitch, whipped back stitch, and French knots as well as basic skills such as how to trace a design onto fabric and thread the needle. Personalize your piece...

In this class, we will use the medium of collage to explore composition and design layout for artistic expression. Each class will focus on a different way to approach starting an art piece with exercises and examples given to help you approach the blank page in new ways. This class is a great way to try new things and experiment with paper, glue,...

This is a holiday special and Studio4404’s gift to you!  we will have fun making unique gift wrapping paper, cards, and boxes. A day of creating and thinking of others at this holiday time of year.   Materials list to bring: brayer roller tubes of acrylic paints of your favorite colors paint brushes for application scraper ...