The Fundamentals of Drawing is a series of 4-12 week in-depth, skill-building courses with acclaimed artist and instructor Julie Tyslicky, designed to teach you to draw from the ground level. Starting with “I can’t draw a stick figure” or the ever-popular “I can’t draw a straight line” developing into much more advanced skills that can help enhance your art vocabulary, 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, contour line drawing, observation, and its importance to the drawing process.

This course also teaches technical knowledge such as layering, what are values, highlights and shadows, and negative space. If you have always wanted to know how to draw but didn’t know where to begin or you were afraid to, this is an excellent series of classes for you!

This 12-week skill-building course takes place from 6:30-9 pm, Wednesdays, September 18-December 4, in the Idonea Hersee Classroom at Art Reach, 111 E Broadway in Mount Pleasant.

Recommended age: Adults only