The Stowaways - A Virtual Art and Culture Experience
A virtual 6-week art and culture course for young artists ages 8 - 12. Students will learn to quickly draw iconic buildings, cafe scenes, and people from 5 different countries. Join us as we travel to France, Italy, Japan, Argentina, and the USA. Learn about Parisian cultures and icons, Florentine history and use of pattern, Kyoto’s shrines and gardens, the flamenco and colorful buildings of Buenos Aires, and the history of skyscrapers through isometric perspective in NYC. Each session will be recorded and sent in follow-up to the class.
Course is built for beginning - intermediate art students.
Curriculum is below:
Session 1 - Foundations
Intro
Expectations
Materials
Foundations for drawing perspective
Session 2 - Paris, France
Intro to Parisian culture
Paris Icons
Food and cafe life
1-pt. Perspective drawing of a cafe scene (drawing exercise)
Session 3 - Florence, Italy
Intro to Florentine history
Duomo di Firenze facts
Food and Italian life
Pattern and isometric perspective - Duomo Firenze (drawing exercise)
Session 4 - Kyoto, Japan
Post WW2 history
Shinto shrines
Food and restaurants
Rendering gardens and temples through color (drawing exercise)
Session 5 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
History of Argentinian port
Flamenco and food
Emphasis on color in La Boca region (drawing exercise)
Session 6 - New York City, USA
Immigration to America - a history
The Statue of Liberty history
Notorious pizza and bagels
Emphasis on people and skyscrapers in midtown (drawing exercise)
Materials list will be provided upon registration.
About your instructor
Ingrid is an artist and educator residing in Northern California, US. She has an MFA in Studio Arts from Purdue University, and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Ingrid works primarily as a painter with a focus on the figure, and has extended her practice of sketching to include her travels, or more relevant to the COVID-era, her untravels.
Ingrid has a firm belief in the transformative power of observational drawing and promotes this practice in her workshops and the most recent Untravel Sketchbook Series.