Gifts from the Earth -

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Gifts from the Earth: The Value of Pencils
Beautiful artwork is created with value: the degree of light and dark in a specific subject. Working in pencil, you'll develop pigment-free values and master seamless gradations from the lightest lights to the darkest darks without the usual graphite sheen. A simple exercise will train each student to draw incredible detail. The graphite-illustrated Gifts from the Earth will be our reference book. Each participant will design a composition and begin an original work using tricks to draw viewers' eyes to the focal point. Value training will improve artwork of any medium and drawing in graphite is so much fun!
Fee: $220 member, $264 non-member. Prerequisite: Pencil I

Course #09WBI520

CLASS FILLED - (Waiting list)
Fri. - Sun., Feb. 20 – 22, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (18 hr)

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Course #09WBI520

CLASS FILLED - (Waiting list)

Fri. - Sun., May 15 - 17, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (18 hr)

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Rhonda Nass's art career began with her high school art teacher's pronouncement, "You'll never be an artist"--all a stubborn teenager needed to catapult her through a University of Wisconsin-Madison art degree to owning (along with her husband, Rick) an illustration/art studio, which celebrated its’ 32nd year last year. Artists most influential in Rhonda's work are Caravaggio, Robert Bateman, Wayne Thiebaud and Rick Nass. Her artwork appears in galleries, private and corporate collections, museums and international publications.