Fall Sketching Courses and Workshops
Drawing classes are now offered at and around The Pendleton Art Gallery, Newport on the Levee by Artist/Instructor Joe Drury
“SKETCHING AT THE LEVEE SATURDAYS” designed for students grades 4 through 16, younger students are accompanied by parents held from 11:30 am to 1pm Saturdays.
“SKETCHING AT THE LEVEE EVENINGS” designed for students grades 4 through 16, younger students are accompanied by parents held from 6PM to 7:30 pm Weekdays.
“CINCINNATI UNDER THE STARS” Adult classes 7:30 to 9 pm evenings
(except Holidays)
Drop ins are welcome to all classes however class size is limited. 3 - 12 students per session. You must call ahead to assure place.
Classes start with weekly hands on instruction at the Pendleton Art Gallery. Field sketching is then done in groups at Newport on the Levee locations including: The Pendleton Art Gallery, The Purple People Bridge, Barnes & Noble, Riverboat Row, Mango Arts, Jefferson Hall, and other locations in and around the Levee.
Drawing Workshops are offered as continuous 10 week blocks with rotating drawing classes that can be started at any time.
Contact Joe Drury at (859) 240-0046 for complete information. Indicate student name, grade, and parent or guardian name, contact information.
We start at The Pendleton Art Gallery. Newport on The Levee, 1 Levee Way, Newport, Ky., 41071, Plaza Level.
Artist/Teacher Joe Drury conducts two weekday classes per night and one on Saturday mornings. The early class is geared toward students accompanied by adults. High school students who need to enhance their portfolio for admission to college programs in architecture, fine art, industrial design, etc. and adults find these sessions most useful.
The later classes are designed for adults who already display an interest in visual art and want to further develop their skills. In all classes we start working in sketch books with pencil then charcoal, water color and marker.
The 10 week class series fee is $150.
The Group rate (2 or more) is $150 (or $15 per person per session.)
For drop ins the fee is $20 per session Guests can drop into classes for $20 per session. Parents who are accompanying students are $10.
About Instructor: Joe Drury is currently showing as a member artist at The Pendleton Art Gallery Newport on the Levee, The Fifth Street Gallery, At The Hilton Hotel, MetroNation, Indiginous Gallery, Cincinnati OH, The Gallerie Zaum, Ft. Thomas KY., The Fusion Gallery, Bellevue KY, The Tower Place Gallery at 103 Crew Tower, Cincinnati OH, The Pendleton Art Center 8th Floor Gallery and at his fifth floor Pendleton studio 512.
He has shown at The Water Lilly Gallery, Cincinnati OH., and Salon des Refus'es, 1995, 1996, 1997, The Hult Center for the Arts, The Maude Kerns Art Center, The Downtown Garden, and The Sherman Gallery in Eugene Oregon, presenting sculpture, painting, drawings and pastels. His Public Sculpture "Waterfall II" was a winner of the "Outside Art 96" competition located on the Eugene Broadway Mall. This work is now in private collection. "Outside Art 95" winner "Waterfall I" was sited on the Broadway Mall near the Lane Arts Council.
Other Drury works can be found in public and private collections in New York City, Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco, L.A. Seattle, Eugene, Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach, Northern Kentucky University, and Cincinnati Ohio. Joseph Drury has taught at Northern Kentucky University, ITT Tech, Daymar College, and the W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation in Bellevue KY.
Sketching Course and Workshop Outline Ideas
Weeks Unit Topics Drawing Exercises, and Drawing Homework will be fitted to each student
Week 1 Unit 1: Introduction Techniques for visualizing. Can you Visualize, think spatially?
Drawing and representation Improve your vision. Learn and Enhance your prospective.
Why Quick Sketching? Visual Communication “You can't draw????”
- Left Brain Right Brain shift, learning to see differently
1.Upside Down Drawing: Left-Right Shift
2. Profile: Left-Right Shift
3. Contour drawings: hand, foot - seeing differently Contour drawings: hand, foot - differently
4 Negative Space - chair (simple), projector (complex) “ seeing differently
Supplies:
Bring drawing kit: 3 different weight Pencils, Black felt tip pen; bound line-free paper Your Sketch Book 20 drawings - 6 per page to start.
Week 2 Unit 2: Line & Shape "Oriental perspective" Line & Shape Practice Exercise in line drawing
"Oriental perspective" Sketching Line & Shape "Oriental perspective" Manual drafting, line weight,
proportional estimation
1.Many Heads
2.Groups of three - squiggle, finish; squiggle, squiggle, finish
3. "Oriental perspective" drafting - Plan, section, elevation of inside of game box
Your Sketch Book 20 initial sketches
Week 3 Unit 2: linear perspective technical sketching Isometric, parallel perspective, the linear perspective and technical sketching Proportion parallel perspective, to the linear perspective
1. Proportions: Golden Section, 4 cords, sacred triangle (geometric construction)
2.Draft 4 types of "Oriental perspective" cubes without linear measurement
3. Words to Learn Your Sketch Book 10 real and 10 imagined sketches
Week 4 Unit 3: The basics of perspective One, two, three point The box method of drawing The basics of perspective Perspective - Intro: One point, two point, three point and box method
1.Sketching: One point, two point, and three point perspective of a cube
2.Exercises on paper 3. Words to Learn Your Sketch Book 20 detail sketches
Week 5 Unit 3: Proportional extensions The box method of drawing The basics of Perspective - Drafting 2 point perspectives; continuation of box method sketching 1. Draft: 2 point cube
2.Draft: Interior 2 point cube with
3. smaller cubes inside
4. Words to Learn Your Sketch Book
10 "Oriental perspective" and 10 parallel perspective, to the linear perspective sketches Sketch: Proportional extensions and reductions of a cube
Week 6 Unit 3: box method sketching The box method of drawing The basics of perspective
Perspective - Drafting 3 point perspectives, continuation of box method sketching
1.Draft: 3 point cube
2.Draft: 3 point cube with 3 smaller boxes inside
3.Exercises on paper
4. Words to Learn Your
Sketch Book 20 perspective sketches P2 - Your Sketch Book final
Week 7 Unit 4: Basic Forms cylinder, cone, sphere, Ellipses (Circles in space) Primitives: cylinder, cone,
sphere, pulley. Extended prisms (extruded forms), lathed forms Circles in "oriental perspective" and perspective
1.Sketches: circles in "oriental perspective" and perspective (using previous work as underlay)
2.Exercises on paper
3.Words to Learn
Your Sketch Book 20 perspective sketches
Week 8 Unit 4: Basic Forms Contour lines Grids Contour lines and compound surfaces Grids Defining compound surfaces with contour lines Using grids for proportional relationships and perspectives
1.Contour lines on compound surfaces, intro discussion of line weights and cutting edge
2. Exercises on paper
3. Exercises on paper
5. Words to Learn Your Sketch Book 15 perspective sketches and 5 drawn from photos
Sketches: grids for simple and complex shapes and perspective
Week 9 Unit 5: Structures, objects and space Building with primitives on basic forms Developing the basic structure of objects and space Building up any form and shape through additive and subtractive of simple geometries
1. Sketches: building forms and shapes
2. Exercises on paper
3. Words to Learn Your Sketch Book 5 Initial sketches for 2 point interior
Week 10 Unit 6: Structures, Multi-point perspective 6:Advanced techniques viewpoints Shading: light source
Multi-point perspective Cutting edge and line weights Basis shading Selection of viewpoints
Perception of real space & multiple perspectives Appropriate selection of viewpoints
Shading: light source and perspective
1. Draft: multi-point perspective of groups of cubes
2. Sketches
3. Exercises on paper
4. Words to Learn
3. Exercises on paper
Final Portfolio Project: 2 point interior perspective finished Sketches - basic shading - shadows in perspective and Full Sketchbook(s)
Links:
Newport on the Levee lifestyle center Located on Third Street in Newport, Kentucky . It is located adjacent to The Newport Aquarium , The Purple People Bridge Along the Ohio River And has views of Cincinnati, Ohio . More information at: www.newportlevee.com/gallery
The Pendleton Art Gallery The Pendleton Art Center, Barnes & Noble , Riverboat Row , Mango Arts , Jefferson Hall
Sketch books, Carbon Pencil Sticks etc, and optional text are available from Barnes and Noble, Newport on the Levee.
"Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas" by Thomson Course Technology PTR Development, Larry Belliston, Belliston