Fur Family Portraits

An opportunity for those, familiar with their medium, to try fur.

A Portrait of a four footed family member is a great memento gift for family and friends. Using your personal hard copy image(s) as guides Working in your choice of graphite, fine line marker, watercolour or pencil crayon. learn to see beneath the surface fur to escape the Photo Copycat Trap. Demonstrations show: How the skeleton’s armature plus muscles fill out shapes. How fur works from short and shiny to long and fuzzy for final personality.

You need personal references, at least five different photos of your subject. The better these are, the better your outcome.

Acrylics or Oils are not welcome.

Just Horses

Host this workshop at your facility, with your equine models, maybe people, any breed or discipline. Winter indoors. Summer almost anywhere. The fee includes “Just Horses” © Nola’s little book on drawing horses.

Professional teaching artists’ comment “Oh, It’s all here. What you didn’t know you wanted, everything you need.”

Dancing with Flat Brushes

The Dancing Brush makes a flat brush use its precise stroke abilitiess to build an image without mud as the paper stays flat.

Anytime, Anywhere, Almost Any Weather

Be amazed at how much you can find to see and draw with a pencil and simple spiral bound sketch book.

Learn how to make your pencil work better, with any subject. It may be the beginning of a grand work in any medium.

If you can sign your name, you can draw.

Colored Pencils

Surprised? Colored pencils are a fine art medium. They are economical, portable, very forgiving, engaging etc, etc, etc. They allow tremendous detail in a small area, but can and will work large format. They work on dry surfaces, especially colored papers, in any color. Their ability to depict brilliant detail helps when a watercolour may need a touch of ???.

Egg Heads

In an afternoon learn to translate familiar 2 dimensional proportion guides into a 3D reference tool using an egg and modelling medium. Then look at it from all angles for insight into your current project.