Pen & Ink Class

Beginning through intermediate students are welcome to this fun and skill enhancing class. It will be lead in a friendly cooperative workshop format. We will discuss, paper types, pen types, and ink choices. We will cover how to create the illusions of distance and shadow using pen and ink. Pen and ink is basically line drawing so lithographs, drawings and underdrawings of masters will be studied for inspiration and gleening of technique. You may wish bring your own object, photograph or print to work from.
Instructor: Z. Scholis

Current classes are organized through Sunnyvale Cupertino Adult Education:www.ace.fahsd.org


Please note, this is an example of a syllabus for a Pen and Ink Class. Classes are regularly modified to add variety and improve upon old methods.

Wk 1 Introductions & Materials:

Wk 2 Composition:  

Wk 3 Light and Shadow:

Wk 4 Perspective:

Wk 5 Portraiture & Proportion:

Wk 6 Individualized and plienair Projects:

Wk 7 Individualized Projects:

Wk 8 Individualized Projects and Pot luck:

Materials List

Optional: watercolors, colored inks, colored pencils, more nibs, specialized paper or bristol board.

Optional text : Sketching Your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink, by Claudia Nice

Three Rules

1. Change "I'm not good at this" to "This is new to me."

2. Doing something new and unfamiliar takes courage. Something called you here; trust it.

3. Demos are to show a way, not The way.

 

About the Teacher
Zoya Scholis has a BA Studio Arts, Cal State Hayward U. 1993
16 years experience teaching, 10 years facilitating workshops on creativity

Questions for the teacher? zoya@artforpersonalgrowth.com