Figure Drawing (Tuesday Evenings / Adult Class)

Figure Drawing

Tuesday evening 6 - 8:30pm
(6 weeks)  March 12 – April 23  (no class 4.16)
Instructor: Heather Lewis
Adults (ages 16+)

From quick warm-up gestural drawings, to longer sessions, you will draw the model*. Instructor Heather Lewis will guide you through exercises designed to help you understand the different aspects of drawing the figure from the skeleton, and weight bearing points, to foreshortening, and more! All skill levels welcome. *model will be wearing close fitting exercise clothing.

Materials-drawing board, pad of 18x24 newsprint, willow and compressed charcoal, sandpaper block, kneaded eraser 

MEMBERS: $182  NON-MEMBERS: $195

Materials List: drawing board, pad 18 x 24 newsprint, vine charcoal, compressed charcoal, sand paper block, kneaded eraser

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HEATHER LEWIS – VISUAL ARTIST, TEACHER, COACH 

Heather Lewis possesses a life-long immersion in the arts beginning in Delaware with artist parents, fine art training at The Philadelphia College of Art, and over three decades of actively creating art for exhibition and sale. PASSIONATE about helping others reconnect with their own creativity, she is a seasoned studio arts instructor and creativity coach who inspires learning through her engaging and encouraging teaching style. She has taught and conducted workshops throughout the northeast for all different age levels from pre-school to college. She is an adjunct studio arts professor at York County Community College. “As with her paintings, Heather’s classroom instruction serves as a magical conduit through which others discover their own dreams, visions, images, and feelings.

She creates a learning environment where her students feel safe to explore and, simultaneously, challenged and stretched to their highest potential. Heather truly embraces and models the belief that her classroom provides the venue to set the creator in each of us free. “ Susan M. Vitale. REFRESHING and ORIGINAL, Lewis masterfully captures and interprets the beauty of the natural world around her, infusing it with a certain emotional vitality. She has exhibited extensively in her native Delaware, central New York, and throughout New England, with work included in prominent private and corporate collections. Heather Lewis is a long time resident of the Maine seacoast which is a constant source of inspiration for her art.