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Class: Contour Drawing  /  Teacher: Jill Tiderman

Location: Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, Va

teacher JillybeanPeople tell me all the time… “I can’t draw.” The truth is that drawing is a skill anyone can learn but it takes practice to get good at it.

 

I used to draw as a kid when I had more time on my hands, but now i want to get right to the paint! Slowing down to enjoy the drawing process requires patience, but contour drawing is fun and fast. In contour drawing you render the outlines of your subject without picking up your pen or pencil. Ideally you should spend most of your time looking at your subject and very little time looking at your paper. Lines overlap and become loopy and loose. In blind contour drawing you do it without looking at your paper at all, which makes for a Picasso-like rendering… always a surprise when you finish! We did each drawing with a timer set for just a few minutes. The class was fast-paced and super fun!

WHAT I LEARNED: Drawing can be so fun and anybody can learn it with practice.

WHAT I LIKED: I really enjoyed blind contour drawing and loved how the drawings turned out so funky. I also loved meeting new folks, taking turns modeling, throwing perfectionism out the window, Jill’s enthusiastic and energetic teaching style, and learning about Lenore’s bucket list — how she is learning to swim at age 47!

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say yesMy name is Sandy and I am an art class junkie and a lover of artful adventures…

I love to take art classes, absorbing every little tidbit the teacher has to offer. I dive into each project with my mind open wide, focusing on learning the processes and not worrying one bit about the finished product.

mistakes

My friend, Creativity Coach Lesley Riley told me that I needed to teach. I fought it tooth and nail. Eventually I meandered my way into it and have been doing it ever since. She also told me I needed to find my teaching niche. I thought about this one for a really long time. I bounce from medium to medium and really enjoy that, so I couldn’t figure out how to stick with just one specialty. I LOVE painting for a few months, and then I LOVE jewelry making for a while, and then….

After years of soul searching, I came to the conclusion that maybe my niche is not a medium, but a vibe, an attitude, a feeling, a fleeting thought, a way of being, or a way of making people in my classes feel about themselves and their journey of creativity.

So… no restricting myself to one medium or even two. I can’t help myself. I want to dabble in them all.

Welcome to my addiction.