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General News · 30th July 2024
GinaT CIMAS
Have you always wanted to draw wild animals? Well, here’s your chance.
Join us for an afternoon of drawing/sketching wild critters that won’t run or fly away.
Participants should be 13 or older. Registration required.
Kristen Scholfield-Sweet, a local artist and art educator, will get us warmed up and teach different ways of seeing our subject.
• We will look at the “gesture” of the animal or bird and feel how it is in the world.
• We will practice this gesture several times until our arms and hands are comfortable making it.
• We want to see the animal or bird's feeling in the gesture.
• Using pencil or Conté crayon, we'll create a composition on paper that effectively conveys the "gesture" of the animal or bird. We'll layer detail into the shapes and shadows we draw, using circular or hatching strokes. When we can feel the "gesture" of the animal or bird in the drawing, our work is complete.
Drawing the Wild, Wild Cortes, 1255 Seaford Road, Sunday, August 4, 12:30 to 2 pm.
If you have these, please bring:
Drawing materials: pencils, Conté crayons, charcoal
A clipboard or stiff backing for drawing paper
(Some drawing materials and clipboards will be provided.)
Limited to a maximum of 12. Pre-registration is required.
Call the Museum250-935-6340 or email cimascortesmuseum.com.
The event is free. Donations are appreciated.
For more information about Wild Cortes, check our website https://cortesmuseum.com/wild-cortes/natural-history-centre/
Wild Cortes is managed by the Cortes Wild! partnership: Linnaea Farm Society, Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society, Friends of Cortes Island Society (FOCI), Discovery Islands Ecosystem Mapping Project (DIEM), Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society (FTCCIS), Cortes Island biologist Sabina Leader Mense, geologist/naturalist Christian Gronau, and teacher/naturalist Rex Weiler and students.
Join us for an afternoon of drawing/sketching wild critters that won’t run or fly away.
Participants should be 13 or older. Registration required.
Kristen Scholfield-Sweet, a local artist and art educator, will get us warmed up and teach different ways of seeing our subject.
• We will look at the “gesture” of the animal or bird and feel how it is in the world.
• We will practice this gesture several times until our arms and hands are comfortable making it.
• We want to see the animal or bird's feeling in the gesture.
• Using pencil or Conté crayon, we'll create a composition on paper that effectively conveys the "gesture" of the animal or bird. We'll layer detail into the shapes and shadows we draw, using circular or hatching strokes. When we can feel the "gesture" of the animal or bird in the drawing, our work is complete.
Drawing the Wild, Wild Cortes, 1255 Seaford Road, Sunday, August 4, 12:30 to 2 pm.
If you have these, please bring:
Drawing materials: pencils, Conté crayons, charcoal
A clipboard or stiff backing for drawing paper
(Some drawing materials and clipboards will be provided.)
Limited to a maximum of 12. Pre-registration is required.
Call the Museum250-935-6340 or email cimascortesmuseum.com.
The event is free. Donations are appreciated.
For more information about Wild Cortes, check our website https://cortesmuseum.com/wild-cortes/natural-history-centre/
Wild Cortes is managed by the Cortes Wild! partnership: Linnaea Farm Society, Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society, Friends of Cortes Island Society (FOCI), Discovery Islands Ecosystem Mapping Project (DIEM), Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society (FTCCIS), Cortes Island biologist Sabina Leader Mense, geologist/naturalist Christian Gronau, and teacher/naturalist Rex Weiler and students.