civilian BLOG » ART CLASSES http://civilianbasics.com/blog Sat, 15 May 2010 17:04:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Mother & Son screen workshop. http://civilianbasics.com/blog/2009/08/07/mother-son-screen-workshop/ http://civilianbasics.com/blog/2009/08/07/mother-son-screen-workshop/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:55:20 +0000 val http://civilianbasics.com/blog/?p=310 It was extremely sweet. Little Johnny, came to my studio with his mom, Suzie.  They spent the first portion of the class drawing each other in the blind contour mode. I hope they found the beauty in just observing each other. Johnny did wonderfully, Suzie surely showed off her talent as artist – smooth, insightful and very skilled line quality.  Very nice Suzie!

After the drawing session of the class, they chose a few favorite drawings. We then proceeded to make a few lovely screenprints out of the drawings.  These are those wonderful blind contours!  Enjoy them-  I certainly did.

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