(To review/preview notes for classes go to 'MORE...' at top right and scroll down to find material relevant to your class. This website has not been edited and is being regularly added to and altered.)
This website is for students and prospective students of my painting and drawing classes. As an instructor my specialty is teaching adults drawing fundamentals, life and figurative drawing, basic human and animal anatomy, watercolour painting of landscape and figure, and painting fundamentals using the transparent properties of watercolour paint to combine the discrete qualities of light and shade and local colour.
In my classes, as well as looking at reference slides of drawing and painting from the art historical record, we will also look at other examples of applications for the drawing and painting concepts we are studying. Film, story boarding, graphic novels and comics, animation, advertising, product design, engineering design, architectural design, and print advertising will also be scrutinized.
My classes should give you some supervised trial runs for the drawing and painting that you must continue to labour with for years to come.
Here you'll find outlines for upcoming courses to be offered and links to course material consisting of notes and images that will allow you to preview or review classes. Go to 'MORE..' top right of this page and scroll down to find your course.
The website might also be a useful way for art education programmers to survey my instructional product. If you are interested in considering me for workshops, demonstrations, or course instruction please contact me at cpowsey@shaw.ca.
Below are samples of visual imagery from in-class demonstrations and also images specifically produced for instructional slideshows that precede our work in the studio.
This website is for students and prospective students of my painting and drawing classes. As an instructor my specialty is teaching adults drawing fundamentals, life and figurative drawing, basic human and animal anatomy, watercolour painting of landscape and figure, and painting fundamentals using the transparent properties of watercolour paint to combine the discrete qualities of light and shade and local colour.
In my classes, as well as looking at reference slides of drawing and painting from the art historical record, we will also look at other examples of applications for the drawing and painting concepts we are studying. Film, story boarding, graphic novels and comics, animation, advertising, product design, engineering design, architectural design, and print advertising will also be scrutinized.
My classes should give you some supervised trial runs for the drawing and painting that you must continue to labour with for years to come.
Here you'll find outlines for upcoming courses to be offered and links to course material consisting of notes and images that will allow you to preview or review classes. Go to 'MORE..' top right of this page and scroll down to find your course.
The website might also be a useful way for art education programmers to survey my instructional product. If you are interested in considering me for workshops, demonstrations, or course instruction please contact me at cpowsey@shaw.ca.
Below are samples of visual imagery from in-class demonstrations and also images specifically produced for instructional slideshows that precede our work in the studio.
