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Unleash your creativity and master the art of drawing with a wide range of classes in Chicago. Learn essential techniques, explore various mediums, and gain the skills and confidence to create stunning works of art.

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Drawing with Ink Ages 16+

Evanston Art Center

Learn how to use a brush and quill to make loose, lush drawings. This medium is perfect to combine line and value, and will help you become looser and freer in your practice. Discover how to quickly create painting studies, to work faster and be more self-confident. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class:  You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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Online Beginning Drawing with Duffy O'Connor (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL

Welcome to the world of drawing! Get an introduction to the fundamentals of observational drawing using the simplest of tools - the pencil.  Students will learn to use line, light and shadow to make still life drawings that offer a realistic yet artistic image. Perfect for students without drawing experience and a good refresher if it's been a little while since you've drawn. Skill Level: Beginner This interactive online ...

(83) Beginner 16 and older
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$230

6 sessions

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Online Beginning Drawing with Vivian Zapata

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Learn about fundamental drawing concepts: line, shape, form, value, proportion, and perspective. Emphasis is on representational drawing of still life arrangements and other subjects. Use graphite and charcoal with confidence. With short presentations and demonstrations, explore concepts, application techniques, and drawing examples. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including...

(83) Beginner 18 and older
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$410

12 sessions

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Outdoor Sketching and Perspective

Evanston Art Center

Get outside and draw! You will be led on drawing excursions in and around Evanston to learn to draw the urban landscape. Elements of linear perspective, observational drawing, and color will be brought together in this unique class.  This class will only take place outdoors, and will NOT meet at the Evanston Art Center.  Registered students will receive offsite meeting instructions prior to first class via email.  In case of inclement...

(83) All levels 18 and older
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Beginning Drawing with Duffy O'Connor (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center

Get grounded in the basics of drawing and artistic expression. Explore basic techniques and subject matter to experimentation in media and imagery. Beginning with pencil, charcoal, pastel and moving to ink and collage, you will explore self-expression through the subject matter of still-life, interior space, the figure and abstraction. Jumpstart your art in this supportive, creative environment. Skill  Level: Beginner  In-person class...

(83) Beginner 16 and older
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Drawing Art History

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Throughout history, artists have trained by learning from artists that came before them. We will focus on different areas of art history with particular emphasis on technique, including composition, line quality, values, etc. and then practice these techniques firsthand.

(83) Beginner 18 and older
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$185

5 sessions

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Creative Uses for Inks

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Inks have the ability to create fluid and impressionistic effects on both porous and non-porous surfaces. Using ceramic tile, clayboard, canvas, wood, glass, metal, fabric, and rice paper, learn how to utilize and control ink to create one-of-a-kind works of art that allow you to flex your creativity. Skill Level: Beginner

(83) Beginner 18 and older
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$195

5 sessions

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The Art of Portrait: From Drawing to Painting

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Gain confidence as you draw and paint portraits by exploring all its aspects in this studio class. The first approach will be through drawing, learning the morphology and anatomy of the face and the head, progressively building skills of portrait representation. Eventually you’ll learn how to shift from drawing into painting, discovering shading, tone and color applied to portrait.  Through examples taken from different artists you’ll...

(83) All levels 18 and older
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$160

5 sessions

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Cultivate your Creative Color Practice (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Do you ever struggle deciding which colors to use when creating, or end up with the same color combinations in your work? Work with a special palette of paper hues to expand and explore your own inner sense of color through guided exercises, discussion, and play. You will leave with a new understanding of color, a collection of samples built on different approaches to color and theories, and the skills to apply these new ideas to your work with...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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$170
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Drawing with Charcoal

Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL

Learn to render different subjects with charcoal. We will use photographic references to learn about various drawing concepts: values, forms, texture, atmospheric perspective and facial proportions. Experience drawing on papers with different tonal values. Click here for the instructor's recommended supply list. Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first...

(83) Intermediate 18 and older
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$190

6 sessions

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From Drawing to Painting (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center

We’ll begin each class with drawing exercises, and then use those drawings as tools to painting. Learn to see deeper, express yourself both intuitively and through observation, and simply indulge in the pleasure of making. Work from still lives you create yourself, as well as reference photos. In drawing you will work with line, gesture, cross hatch and tone. The paintings will expand upon these ideas. There will be lessons for beginners, and...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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Travel Sketch

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Learn how to maximize your time as you sketch and draw the landscapes during your travels. Emphasis includes how to extract your vision from the landscape using elements of composition; how to render basic forms of the landscape and incorporate line, gesture, and value; and how to add color. Using water-based pens and colored pencils, you will begin your own travel sketchbooks using inspirational travel photos. Water-soluble sketch pens will be...

(83) All levels 18 and older
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$180

4 sessions

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Colored Pencils Basics (Ages 9-13)

Evanston Art Center

Begin exploring the medium of colored pencil. We will begin with the basics techniques of using colored pencil, including how to choose and mix colors. You will choose your own subject matter and we will walk through finishing your work of art with the aim of developing the skills you need to use colored pencils in your own style.  This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class: (www.zoom.us(link...

(83) Beginner 9 - 13 years old
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Drawing Native Plants

Evanston Art Center

Learn the art of botanical drawing while honoring the beauty of our native flora. Botanical art focuses on building your observational skills and how to be accurate with proportions. We will work our way from spring to fall, using pencil and ink to cover the best ways to draw different flowers and leaves.  This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class You will be emailed Zoom meeting...

(83) All levels 18 and older
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Pastel Drawing Studio

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Soft pastel is a unique medium that combines the qualities of drawing and painting. Dry pigments look like velvet catching the light.  Create pastels from nature, photographs or memories as you explore composition, color, light, shadow and perspective. An advanced studio class with significant independent work.  Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced  In-person class (with reduced capacity) closely following Restore Illinois guidelines. ...

(83) Intermediate 18 and older
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$265

7 sessions

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Weekly Group Crit

Evanston Art Center

Are you looking to discuss your work in a safe, constructive environment, while learning and growing your artistic practice?  Share your work in a free and open discussion to receive both positive and constructive feedback, all with the goal of growth. Lively discussions are encouraged. All media are welcome. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class:  You will be emailed Zoom...

(83) All levels 18 and older
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Texture in Colored Pencil Ages 16+

Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL

Bring more realism to your drawings by learning how to create texture in colored pencil. You will learn how to render soft, rough, fuzzy, smooth and shiny objects.  The basics of colored pencil will be covered before moving into more advanced techniques. This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class:  You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions, including a unique URL and meeting...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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$150

6 sessions

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Beginning Drawing with Duffy O'Connor

Evanston Art Center

Welcome to the world of drawing! Get an introduction to the fundamentals of observational drawing using the simplest of tools - the pencil. Students will learn to use line, light and shadow to make still-life drawings that offer a realistic yet artistic image. Perfect for students without drawing experience and a good refresher if it's been a little while since you've drawn.  This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. You will...

(83) Beginner 18 and older
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Tropical Plein Air

Evanston Art Center

We’ll draw and paint in either the Lincoln Park Conservatory or the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Work in watercolors and watercolor pencils, drawing mediums, or acrylics. Focus includes instruction on creating quick thumbnail sketches, composition, and color. Materials: small sketchbook Staedtler #3b pencils kneaded eraser.

(83) All levels 18 and older
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$110

2 sessions

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DIY Coloring Books (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center

Turn the ordinary into something ornamental by designing your own coloring pages. Each week we will look at different art from around the world and draw on their patterns and designs for inspiration. You can choose your own subject matter or work along with the instructor’s provided examples. Notes: This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions,...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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