Blair Thornley teaches Drawing Ideas: Developing Your Sketchbook, Drawing I: Focus on Perception, Drawing II: Refining Technique, Figure Drawing I, Introduction to Painting, and Animal Illustration for the UC San Diego Extension Art and the Creative Process Professional Certificate.
Blair is an award-winning illustrator, painter, and animator whose work has garnered a national following and appeared in publications such as The New York Times, LA Times, Neiman Marcus, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Raygun, Herman Miller and locally in San Diego Home and Garden. She is currently illustrating a book about two funny dogs, and one on etiquette for young women.