The Fundamentals of Drawing is a series of four 12-week skill-building courses with acclaimed artist and instructor Julie Tyslicky, designed to teach you to draw from the ground level. You’ll be provided a solid foundation in the essential techniques that every artist needs to know, and help you develop much more advanced skills that can help enhance your art vocabulary, and painting skills, or possibly get you into juried shows.

Fundamentals of Drawing 1 starts the process at the ground level, teaching you how to go about handling the nervousness and the fear of making a mistake, moving on to contour line drawing, observation, and its importance to the drawing process. This course also teaches technical knowledge such as layering, understanding values, highlights and shadows, and negative space. If you have always wanted to know how to draw but didn’t know where to begin, this is an excellent series of classes for you!

This 12-week skill-building course takes place from 3-5:30 pm, Mondays, January 13-March 31, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E Broadway in Mount Pleasant.

Recommended age: 16 and up