Drawing Classes in San Francisco, CA

This is a class of simple exercises that provide invaluable content. Participants will improve their sense of positive and negative space and increase their understanding of how space impacts balance in composition. This is a drawing and collage course.

This class is a playful exploration of what makes digital drawing on the iPad fun and special. We will have fun with digital drawing tools and compare some pencil techniques with what can be done with actual pencil and paper. activities.  This will include finding different ways to create symbolic shapes and forms, scribbles, solid and textured...

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 is a class designed to introduce students to the wonderful world of Botanic illustration! Each week I will choose a subject for study and will demonstrate specific techniques for rendering, layering, blending, shading, and adding texture in colored pencils. The students are welcome to bring in their own subjects to draw as well. We will use magnifying...

This class is an exploration of what makes digital drawing on the iPad fun and special. We will have fun with digital drawing tools and compare some pencil techniques with what can be done with actual pencil and paper. activities. This will include creating images using symbolic shapes and forms, scribbles, solid and textured colors and exploring...

Experience the joy of drawing, painting and sculpting in a variety of media while expressing your personal creative vision. Fundamentals of color, composition, line, shape and form will be briefly discussed. See you there! All materials will be provided by the Art Center.

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...

Experience the joy of drawing, painting and sculpting in a variety of media while expressing your personal creative vision. Fundamentals of color, composition, line, shape and form will be briefly discussed. See you there! All materials will be provided by the Art Center.

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.

You will learn as many hot glass sculpting techniques that can fit in this 4 Day workshop!  The instructors, Karen and Jasen will demonstrate bit working, cane drawing, applying texture and fused powder drawings, sculpting inside and outside the bubble and solid working. They will teach you how to use torches, the garage, and using teamwork to...

The overall objective of the workshop is to show the vast range and flexibility of watercolor and to put conviction into painting by exploring, experimenting and developing creativity of each individual.  The process of painting is key, along with enthusiasm for new techniques in an atmosphere that makes the intermediate and advanced painter...

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...

Learn to make a complete painting from the figure in gouache or acrylic paint. Focus is on pictorial development using live models. Some figure drawing experience preferred. Ages 18 & up welcome. Model fee included. Fee includes modeling fees. Required supplies for this program: 1. Paints if using gouache: Any brand gouache tube colors will...

Ignite Your Wild Creativity: Creating Abstract Painting with Passion Let Loose!  Get Wild!  These workshops will change your art!  You will experience and explore, delve and create, and find your way with confidence and boldness to express what is uniquely you.  In each class, you will be guided in the learning process through...

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...