Middle School Portfolio Development
Drawing classes for artists aged 10 – 14 who want to improve their skills and make pieces for a high school application. We’ll mix concrete skill development with playful community-building activities so artists learn to use technical drawing tools to create their own works of art. Small class sizes allow for individual instruction and the opportunity for artists to develop their own artistic visions with guidance from practicing arts and educators. As with all things Lookout Collective, these classes also emphasize our experiments in emergent communities where we all lean on each other to build connections and take care of each other.
Session 1: Surreal Still-lives
Through a focus on observational drawing skills and playing memory games, we will learn to visualize an object before drawing it, determining proper proportions and placement. Then, after a dive into surrealist and dream-like artwork, we will use charcoal and ink to create fantastical images of objects in strange settings.
Feb 1, 8, 15 · 10am – 1pm
$300/child
Session 2: Party Portraits
Drawing someone’s portrait can be intimidating! In this session, we will focus on learning secret artists’ tricks to capture a person’s likeness through line transfer and gridding. We will then make two large portraits of a special person in your life using a variety of different mark making techniques such as hatching, scribbling, and stippling.
Mar 1, 8, 15 · 10am – 1pm
$300/child
Add’l Information:
Number of Participants:
8 seats available
Ages:
10 – 14
Location:
Lookout Studio
548 Bergen Street,
Brooklyn, NY 11238
We have cats!
Price:
$300/Child/Session. Discount for attending both sessions:
Total cost for signing up for both sessions is $550.
Reminder:
We’re not a formal or conventional program. Lookout Collective is a group of people trying to care for each other and our kids. We rely on trust in each other above all else. We are family coordinated and our portfolio prep classes take place in a home-based studio. It’s all an emergent experience in community building so particiaption is a leap into community education.
Contact:
[email protected]
Instructor:
Nathan Sensel teaches drawing, illustration, graphic design, and comics classes at The City College of New York and Parsons School of Design. He has worked in NYC museums and schools for many years.