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:

• Introductions
• Discussion of Materials, review supplies list
• Grid Drawing, experiments w/ line thickness, and directional lines and swirls  
• Class overview and discussion

Wk 2 Composition:  

• Composition lesson
• Set-up still life,
• Draw 9:20-11:00
• Clean-up & critique 11:15-11:50 focus on composition
  

Wk 3 Light and Shadow:

• Demo cross hatch, lines, squiggles or wash for shadow & negative space
• Set up more complex still life
• Draw
• Clean-up & critique focus on value balance & dramatic lights/shadows
• Slide show

Wk 4 Perspective:

• Demo 3 point perspective
• Set-up till life w/ table & in room
• Drawing time (with pencil guide lines)
• Clean-up and critique focus on illusion of depth

Wk 5 Portraiture & Proportion:

• Demo portraits, Practice (overhead, step by step if voted for)
• Set-up partners for  modeling
• Drawing time
• Clean –up & critique focus on proportions
• Reminder: Wear outdoor clothes next meeting!
  

Wk 6 Individualized and plienair Projects:

• Slides show
• Adding Color: washes and colored pencil demo
• Drawing/ painting time Outside weather permitting
• Clean & Critique

Wk 7 Individualized Projects:

• Drawing/ painting time Outside weather permitting
• Clean & Critique

Wk 8 Individualized Projects and Pot luck:

• Slides, books & magazines for inspiration
• Color washes demo
• Drawing/ painting time Outside weather permitting
• Clean & Critique
• Pot luck-eat

Materials List

• 10-20 sheets bristol board or drawing paper (at least 100 lb recommended)
• Small plastic or glass jar
• Pen set with at least 4 nib sizes (Micron or equivelent brand)
• 1 # 8 round watercolor brush (or similar equivalent)
• 1 sheet watercolor paper-any size you’d like to work on
• Ideas and enthusiasm!

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