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139 - Beginning Drawing

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Student Furnished Course Supplies/Prerequisites: Paper: 18"x 24" pad, Board w/clips, Graphite Pencils-3B - 8B (Faber Castell, Turquoise, Ebony drawing pencils) Charcoal Pencils 4B - 8B, Compressed charcoal sticks (soft), White Eraser, Kneaded Eraser, Stumps or Smudge sticks*, Worable matt fixative Aquanet hairspray, Pen eraser*, Roll of paper towels (Viva preferred), Sheet of medium-course sandpaper, Lab coat or apron* *OPTIONAL

Course Description: BEGINNING DRAWING The objective of this workshop is to develop basic drawing skills. This course will focus primarily on drawing from observation. The first 2 days will be spent on drawing a simple still life in graphite and the final 2 days will be spent drawing a portrait from life with charcoal. This course is just as much about learning how to see and sharpening visual awareness as it is about drawing.

Course Instructor: Shane Larson received his BA and MFA degrees in illustration from USU. Shane has taught courses in Basic and Advanced Illustration, Drawing for Illustration, Graduate Illustration Studio, and Children’s Storybook Illustration. He is currently teaching Drawing I and II and 2-D Design at USU. He has worked as a free-lance illustrator, doing digital concept illustrations for Frito-Lay, Walmart, Hershey’s, and Deans Foods. He’s had award-winning paintings in the ‘Arts for the Parks’ in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the United States Olympic Committee National Art Contest.
shanelarsonart@msn.com