CAM Studio Course Drawing Fundamentals with Jeffery Marshall

27 Pleasant Street,Gloucester MA 01930

03 February, 2022

Description

CAM Studio Course Thursdays from 6:30 – 8:30 pm 8 weeks from February 3 – March 24, 2022 CAM Green, 13 Poplar Street, Gloucester, MA $295 for members, $345 for non-members Instructor Jeffery Marshall, who holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art and a BFA in painting from Cornell University, will lead an eight-week class on the fundamentals of drawing. In this course, students will focus on techniques of accuracy as the first step to developing a solid drawing approach. Through practice with composition and visual measuring, students will create drawings whose sense of believability is grounded in correct proportions and a sense of light, shade, and shadow. Once the foundation of reality is established, the class can work on developing a personal language of image making. Class projects will start with basic shapes that develop into more complicated forms. Techniques in still-life, portraiture, and landscape will be used. By the end of the course, each student will have the skills and confidence to draw anything. A supply list for materials will be provided upon registration. The Cape Ann Museum tells multiple stories, all relating to a single remarkable place. From its earliest days as a fishing and shipping port to its mid-19th century role in the granite industry, to its singular charms of light and sea that have attracted countless artists from the 19th century to the present, Cape Ann boasts a rich and varied culture of nationally significant historical, industrial, and artistic achievement. The Museum's fine art collection includes the largest grouping of works by native son and renowned marine artist, Fitz Henry Lane, as well as work by other prominent painters and sculptors who lived on, visited or were inspired by Cape Ann. The work of contemporary Cape Ann artists is also collected and exhibited. The permanent collection includes fine and decorative arts, and artifacts from the major industries of the area - the fisheries and granite quarrying.