The Drawing Experience Part 1
w/ Joe Mac Kechnie

Offered as an online course.
All Levels Welcome, Including Beginners!

5 Wednesdays: September 16, 23, 30, October 7 & 14 / 2-5pm

Online classes with live instruction, demos, Q&A sessions and downloadable instruction sheets. Scroll to the bottom of this page for a video introduction by Joe.

Cost: $250 for 5 classes

Registration:  online

Location: This will be an online class which can be seen through Zoom.us. A link to the Zoom meeting, along with instructions on how to use Zoom will be sent in an email after you register.

Description:  
Maybe you’ve said, “Are you kidding? I can’t even draw a stick figure!”  Or perhaps this is you: “I wish I could just learn a few basic drawing skills, if someone could just teach me.” Or perhaps it’s been awhile and you’d like to get a refresher course? Hey, these classes are for you!  Joe Mac Kechnie is here to tell you that he can teach ANYone to draw -- try just one class (you can sign up for classes individually) and see if it’s true!

Drawing is a wonderful form of artistic expression in itself and is the very underpinning of fine art painting. Suitable both for beginners and also for experienced artists that want a refresher to get them drawing again, this series of 5 classes will help you learn how to draw better than you ever thought you could. 

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Those who have attended previous workshops were surprised at how fun and easy drawing can be with Joe’s novel approach. For example, you will learn getting things in the right place and right size without pain, complication or confusion. You will develop basic drawing skills using an approach that combines left and right brain abilities. Most of all, you will thoroughly enjoy yourself in a fun and non-intimidating environment. The workshop will have students with a range of skills from absolute beginners to advanced level artists, so you will fit right in even if you’ve never attended a workshop like this before. 

Each class has lectures, demos and hands-on exercises. In the work sessions you will draw from photographs and downloaded/printed sheets that Joe will send you before class. Joe will guide you through how you can make this work in your kitchen or home office and will send any reference photos you might need if you can’t find any! The fundamentals learned here apply to any subject matter.

Want to keep drawing? “The Drawing Experience 2 with an Expressive Twist” will follow this course, in the same time slot.

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Supply List (revised for online classes):

Erasers:

  • Kneaded eraser

  • Gum eraser

  • Vinyl/plastic white eraser

  • Stick eraser (e.g. "General Pencil's Factis eraser pen stick")

  • Expo dry erasers for white board (from Office Depot)

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Charcoals:

  • Soft compressed black charcoal or pastel sticks (e.g. Alfacolor Char-Kole)

  • Soft compressed white charcoal

  • General’s Peel and Sketch charcoal pencils,
    OR Pentalic woodless charcoal set “soft” (from Amazon)

  • 1 bag Bob's Soft Vine Charcoal, 1/2" and other varied sizes

Drawing paper:

  • Standard sketch pad paper, 18x24 (such as Canson’s XL or equivalent
    OR Borden & Riley #20 recycled Sketch 17x14 (Amazon)

Other:

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  • Accurasee proportional divider (available from Amazon) - see photo

  • “Perfect Picture 3 n 1 View Finder Value Scale” (Amazon)

  • ArtBin drawing materials storage

  • Drawing board with clips - large, 23" x 26"

  • Golden Archival Varnish Aerosol, matte or gloss finish spray fro charcoals, pastels, graphite

  • Art Guard Barrier cream (Amazon)

  • Soft paper towels (Bounty extra soft or Kleenex)

  • soft make-up type brush (Joe advises you to “steal one from home”)

A complete list with shoppable links is available. Click here to view this list, or contact ColeArtStudioWorkshops@gmail.com to request the Drawing Experience Part 1 supply list as an email attachment.