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Unleash your creativity and master the art of drawing with a wide range of classes in Chicago. Learn essential techniques, explore various mediums, and gain the skills and confidence to create stunning works of art.

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Sketching Nature in Colored Pencil (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center

Build your confidence in colored pencil by looking at the world around us. Moving between detailed work and quick sketches, move close up into subjects such as water and feathers, and zoom out with entire landscapes. The skills in this class are useful for nature journaling, those times when you want to capture your surroundings quickly and easily. Note: This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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Jumpstart into Art! Ages 16+

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Have you always wanted to take an art class, but worry that you aren’t artistic enough, or can’t draw a straight line? Make art and explore your creativity in a supportive, nonjudgmental environment. Over four weeks, we will explore multiple media, such as drawing, collage, painting, and fiber.  No artistic experience necessary; all supplies will be included.

(83) Beginner 16 and older
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$150

4 sessions

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Spring Botanicals in Colored Pencil (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Spring brings bright and beautiful subjects for botanical drawing. Through careful study of various flowers, you will work your way from loose sketching to detailed colored pencil drawings. We will be covering essential pencil techniques such as layering and burnishing, as well as the basics of color mixing and composition. Required Materials: Please bring the first day: Drawing pencils and erasers. Sketchbook of your preferred paper and type. ...

(83) Beginner 16 and older
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$195

5 sessions

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Tangle Time: Zentangle Art Method (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Relax and have fun drawing structured patterns with step-by-step instructions.  We will use easy-to-learn, repetitive strokes that create beautiful and unique pieces of art.

(83) All levels 16 and older
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$130
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Sketchbook Skills in the Greenhouses

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Sketchbooks are rewarding, personal, and a way to hone drawing skills. You will draw from nature, plein air-style, in the Greenhouses, using various portable media. Give yourself the freedom to sketch unique specimens without the pressure of producing a final plant portrait—instead, creating a record of your artistic journey.  A supply list will be sent. 

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$449

6 sessions

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Sketching for Busy People at Home

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

A new day calls for a new way to keep track of it all. Learn basic sketch journal keeping, and a solid foundation in basic drawing skills. Keep your habits positive, and your sketchbook in good form. Practice makes permanent! Let’s use the time we have now to learn it right and make it stick! Important Notes This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom (www.zoom.us), and register your email address prior to your...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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$195

5 sessions

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Pen and Ink 1

Chicago Botanic Garden

Examine pen-and-ink drawing with the study of natural botanical forms and shapes. You will acquire valuable techniques including stipple, cross-hatching, contour-line, and combinations. Achieve successful execution of black-and-white elements to create value, tone, and texture such as leaf venation, stem texture, and shading. You will create positive and negative tones to establish depth and dimension. A supply list will be sent. All registrations...

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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Botanical Art: Butterflies and Blooms

Chicago Botanic Garden

Immerse yourself in the Garden’s Butterflies & Blooms exhibition surrounded by colorful species from around Illinois and the world. Capturing the cycle of life, draw butterflies and the plants that support them by observing them in this specially designed butterfly habitat. You will have drawing time in the exhibition each morning before it opens to the public. Afterwards, you will move indoors to create completed artwork in the medium of...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Outdoor Sketching

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Composing quick studies in the field is an important skill. You will gain the experience to create these sketches, complete with notes on field conditions, colors, plant measurements, and textures, for a complete work-up in the studio. Folding chairs are provided. In case of inclement weather, the class will draw in the Greenhouses. Please Note:  Dress for the weather.  A supply list will be sent.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$374

6 sessions

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Sketchbooks as an Artist Resource

Chicago Botanic Garden

Explore examples of several artists’ sketchbooks from throughout history while developing your own. Sketchbooks can be collections of ideas, experiments, studies, notes, ephemera, and inspiration. In addition to exploring other artist’s sketchbooks, we will develop a variety of techniques to create and enhance your own sketchbook as a resource. Participants will be sketching natural subjects in pencil, fine permanent marker, watercolor pencil,...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Botanical Drawing 3

Chicago Botanic Garden

We will explore different approaches to capture beautiful and accurate botanical detail, frequently using the microscope. We will work primarily in pencil and will experiment with different tools to achieve particular textures and effects.  Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing 1 and 2 or equivalent. Please Note: A supply list will be sent with your confirmation. ART elective

(122) Advanced 18 and older
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$287

6 sessions

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Lines Curves and Symbols (Online)

Chicago Botanic Garden

Landscape architects, landscape designers, and gardeners often use a graphic palette and symbols to produce a master landscape plan that conveys their ideas. Enhance your plan-development skills and dive into more detail with drafting, lettering, and freehand drawing when preparing a document for client presentation.  A supply list will be sent.  The first class session will be taught online via Zoom. Registered participants will receive...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Portrait Drawing

Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL

Begin to render pencil and charcoal portraits from photos. Start with the basics to become familiar with the main structures of the head, and how to render them with light and shade—building your skills for a future term when you will draw the model from life. Skill Level: Intermediate Important Notes: This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions,...

(83) Intermediate 18 and older
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$150

5 sessions

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Altered Art (Ages 16+)

Evanston Art Center @ Online Class, Online, IL

Explore various methods, approaches, and techniques in application to found imagery and objects. As a class we will utilize drawing, painting, collage, assemblage, and altered books while learning about different mixed-media artists working in altered art. Although the course will focus primarily on two-dimensional media, students are welcome to experiment with any media of their choosing! Required Materials Glue stick (UHU Glue sticks work well)...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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$185

5 sessions

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Botanicals in Ink

Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL

Get started in botanical drawing to capture the bounty of the summer season! You will work your way from drawing and shading into the classic ink techniques of stippling and hatching. We will also explore looser styles of ink drawing, as well as touch upon making your own natural inks. Skill Level: Beginner This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first. You will be emailed Zoom meeting instructions,...

(83) Beginner 18 and older
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$150

5 sessions

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Zentangle® Beyond the Basics of Shape

Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL

After taking the introductory Zentangle® class, you will continue to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns that incorporate repetitive strokes. Revisit some previously learned tangles and also explore new patterns and techniques using gray Zentangle® circular and rectangular tiles as a canvas. Skill Level: All Levels This interactive online class is presented via Zoom. Please download Zoom prior to your first class You will be...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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$185

8 sessions

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Pen & Ink & Watercolor

Evanston Art Center @ Interactive Online Classroom via Zoom, Chicago, IL

Using still life and reference material, students will create drawings and paintings using a variety of pens–dip pens, micron pens, brush pens, watercolors, Dr. Martin Watercolors, and brushes on various papers. Material list NOTE: You do not need to purchase all here. Select a few penholders; nibs; India ink; regular watercolors: primary colors and earth tones by Holbein, Winsor & Newton; a few bottles of Dr. Martin watercolors- primaries:...

(83) All levels 16 and older
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$245

6 sessions

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Drawing On Inspiration

Vaudezilla Studios

Learn the methods of interpreting your inner vision onto paper using pens, colored pencils, pencils, markers. All skill levels welcome. Students will do a variety of projects that teach useful drawing techniques.

(14) All levels 18 and older
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Drawing Basics

One Strange Bird

Never touched charcoal? Can't draw a straight line? Don't know your visual perspective from your linear? Students will learn all the basics: contour lines, composition, and proportion. Learn simple and easy drawing techniques you can practice at home. All materials for the drawing classes are included and some are also available for purchase. Start with simple exercises and then move into a more complicated, natural still life.

(5) Beginner 18 and older
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Practicing Mindfulness through Painting & Drawing

Art Side Out Studio & MASK SHOP @ 5606 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL

Develop Seeing as a practice of mindfulness through drawing and painting, based on the work of Ellen J. Langer,  “All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art.” –from On Becoming an Artist

All levels 16 and older
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$200

8 sessions

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