Lisa Lyman Adams

Sketchbooks offer more than just an opportunity to practice techniques and get down ideas; they provide a way to follow through on your art projects. Using your creative engine to generate imagery first starts with drawing. This class will focus on both inspiration and drawing. As they spot imaginative opportunities and visualize them, students will be instructed in drawing techniques and alternative media and receive weekly prompts. A variety of reference materials will be provided, along with a review of artists and art movements—all to kickstart your inspired self-expression. Learn how to begin a drawing and develop a finished piece. Fill your sketchbook with ideas and walk away with the ability to further your creative journey.

Five-week series

Wednesdays, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Session 1: September 13 – October 11

Session 2: October 18 – November 15

Members $150 / Non-Members $180

Supply List  

Please bring: Your Imagination

Sketchbook: 1 bound Sketchbook or any collection of preferred paper

Paper in pads:  9 X 12 Strathmore Mixed Media pad of paper

9 X 12 Canson Watercolor pad of paper

Tracing paper in pads: 9 X 12(or any other size)

Various Writing/Drawing tools and Accessories: That includes pencils (preferably mechanical pencils with a 2B lead), colored pencils, pens, watercolor and brushes, markers, kneaded erasers etc.

Collected Reference Imagery: Photos, patterned paper, interesting items (from a candy bar wrapping to a magazine), calendar image, poetry, retro images, sticky notes, grid paper, stickers, charts, fonts, clear acetate paper, maps etc.

Adhesives: Glue sticks, various tapes (scotch tape, artists’ white tape, patterned tape, old-school photograph corners, any creative resources to adhere imagery).

Measuring Devices: Rulers, Circle/Ellipse templates, Triangles

PLEASE KNOW THE INSTRUCTOR WILL BE PROVIDING REFERENCE AND TOOLS (except for sketchbooks, pads, and pencils) BUT ANY CONTRIBUTION IS ENCOURAGED.