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Make It Work - Color Mixing Basics: Level 2

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Discover the fundamentals of color through simple, hands-on lessons that teach you how to identify, mix, and use color with confidence. By the end of the course, you'll be able to create vibrant and harmonious color palettes, make thoughtful artistic choices, and apply these skills to any medium or style.

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Figure Drawing from Life: Level 2

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This figure drawing course teaches students to capture the human form using principles of proportion, gesture, and movement while sketching from a minimally covered live model. Through traditional charcoal and graphite techniques, students grow their observational skills and confidence as they create expressive sketches and study anatomy across short and long poses.

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Realism Drawing: Level 1

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In this hands-on studio course, you'll explore the foundations of drawing, including materials, shading, movement, and proportion, using experimental techniques inspired by top art schools. Through dynamic exercises and contemporary methods, you'll build essential skills, creative confidence, and a fresh way of seeing and expressing the world around you.

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Suminagashi Sketchbook

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Learn the beautiful art of Japanese marbling and use your creations to bind your own handmade journal or sketchbook. This beginner-friendly workshop covers the techniques for producing striking marbled patterns and transferring them into elegant book covers. Take home a truly one-of-a-kind handcrafted piece.

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Drawing for Beginners

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  • Small class sizes
  • 18 and older
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  • 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
  • 12 hours over 6 sessions

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Class Description

Description

A hands-on studio approach covering all the fundamentals of drawing!

This class will consist of instructor demos and practical exercises. It will cover a refresher of the basics of drawing, tools, and techniques in pencil and charcoal and will explore some new horizons along the way.

​Students will leave this workshop with tools and skills to confidently create works on their own.

This class is for beginning and intermediate level artists.

Who should take this class

  • those who want to learn to use drawing materials
  • those who want to learn hand-eye coordination
  • those who want stronger rendering skills
  • ​adults who want to strengthen painting in the realism style

Supply List: 

  • Pencil Set of 6: either 2H-6B or HB-8B (i.e. Staedtler Lumograph Set)
  • General's Charcoal Drawing Assortment (or variety of Soft/Med Compressed and Vine Charcoals)
  • 1 Eraser: (i.e. General’s Large Kneaded)
  • 1 Portable Pencil Sharpener
  • 4 Pitt Pens in black (i.e. Faber-Castell set of S, F, M, B tips)
  • 3 Brushes, Round #6, Flat #12, Synthetic Watercolor
  • 1 Bottle of India-type Ink in black, 1-2 fl oz
  • 1 Small 6-well Rectangular Palette
  • 1 9"x12" Sketchbook (i.e. Canson XL Mixed Media Spiral-Bound)
  • 1 18"x24" Drawing Pad (i.e. Strathmore Sketch Spiral Bound)
  • 1 Drawing Board (similar to 24"x24" masonite board)

You are welcome to use anything you already own for tools as long as it fits the topic. You will need a large drawing pad with a rigid support (the drawing board) plus a smaller sketchbook.

Refund Policy

Cancelled Class Policy

Occasionally the school may find it necessary to cancel a course or workshop due to scheduling conflicts or instructor cancellation. If this occurs, registered students will be contacted and will be refunded the full course tuition and any additional fees.

Refund Policy

If something should come up and you are unable to attend your class/workshop, please give us 3 business days notice prior to the start of the class/workshop for a refund less 5% cancellation fee.

After 3 business days, no refunds will be given.

Make Up Policy

Life happens and you may miss a class. You will be allowed to make up one class from the session.

Please request a “make up slip” that is active for the next 30 days. DO NOT just show up to redeem a make up slip as full classes will have NO CHOICE but to turn away the make up student if there are no available tables/space.

You may make up your class in any class that has room, it does not need to be the class that you originally took.

​Make ups are limited to one class per session.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.


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Art on 30th

Art on 30th is a vibrant art school and community in San Diego that offers classes for artists of all levels. With dedicated gallery space, private artist studios, and monthly sessions on "How to Take Your Art to Market," it provides a supportive and inspiring environment for artists to create and grow.

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