Drawing Ideas: Developing Your Sketchbook

Drawing Ideas: Developing Your Sketchbook
10 Weeks | $325 | In-Class

Drawing in your sketchbook regularly is one of the best ways to improve your drawing skills and to exercise your creativity, as well as develop and record ideas for larger drawings and paintings. Great ideas spring from sincere observation of the world around us. Classes will meet weekly to draw a variety of different objects. Weekly assignments between classes will help maintain your momentum. One final drawing or painting will be assigned, using any element observed in your sketchbook. Instruction includes demonstrations as well as individual and group critiques.

Quarters Offered: Spring | Live Online
Course Fee: $325
Prerequisite: Drawing I: Focus on Perception (ART-40166) or equivalent experience.
Materials: Strathmore Mixed Media sketchbook or Strathmore Mixed Media Paper Pad, colored fine-tip markers (Staedtler) , Colored pencil set (Faber-castell or Prismacolor), drawing pencils, Sakura Pigma Micron size 03,  basic watercolor paint set (Grumbacher or Winsor & Newton), watercolor brushes, white eraser
Note: Elective for Art and the Creative Process professional certificate. 
Contact: For more information about this course, please email ahl@ucsd.edu.

Course Number: ART-40447
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Art and the Creative Process, Children’s Book Illustration

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4/4/2023 - 6/6/2023

$300

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• SECTION ID:

  171373

• CLASS TYPE:

  Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Worth, Kelsey

  Kelsey Worth portrays vibrant nature-inspired illustrations using water-based mixed media. Inspired by close-viewed subjects and expressive paint techniques, she melds traditional art fundamentals and modern abstraction. Worth’s work captures animal and floral subjects using sweeping brush strokes and dynamic compositions. Her work embraces colorful timeless subjects while pushing the boundaries of realism. After receiving a dual Bachelors degree in Music and Studio Art, Worth continued studying music at the University of Redlands in Southern California, eventually earning a Masters Degree in Saxophone Performance. Her Senior art project earned University of Redlands Departmental Honors as she graduated Summa Cum Laude. May 2017 Worth joined the United States Marine Corps and c...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No textbook required.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No visitors permitted.
  No refunds after: 4/11/2023.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $300 ($325 if enrolled after 3/6/2023).
  

• NOTE:

  SCBWI/MOPA members can receive our $25 Early Enrollment discount prior to course start date. The max discount a MOPA/SCBWI member can receive for one class is $25. It is applied upon course enrollment over the phone or in person with proof of membership. This is a live online course; all class sessions are taught via Zoom. Course materials like the syllabus and handouts are delivered online. Login on your MyExtension account, select My Courses and click the link under LOCATION.

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
4/4/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
4/11/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
4/18/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
4/25/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
5/2/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
5/9/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
5/16/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
5/23/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
5/30/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
6/6/2023	Tue	6:30 p.m.	9:30 p.m.