Copyright 2006-2009 by The Flagler County Art League  
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Beginners' Drawing Class
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  • This is a 6 week course that provides the student with the 5 Basic component
    skills necessary to draw.  These skills are the
  • cornerstone of creating good
  • representational or
  • non-representational
  • drawings and paintings.
  • Students who have never
  • drawn and those who need
  • a refresher course will find
  • this approach to be
  • accessible to anyone who
  • decides to activate his or
  • her drawing potential.  
  • (No new students will be
  • accepted after the second
  • week)


  • Week 1 – “Seeing like an artist” (edges)
  • Week 2--  “AC/DC” ( A positive and negative approach to spaces)
  • Week 3—“3-D Pictures, but without the glasses”!  (values and form)   
  • Week 4—More on values with an introduction to relationships
  • Week 5—What’s your perspective? (Introduction to perspective drawing)
  • Week 6—The Gestalt of Artwork (realizing the work as a whole)

MONACO - BASIC DRAWING
     
Liz Monaco has been a Palm Coast FL resident since 1998,
  • previously from Rehoboth Beach, DE.  Liz is a graduate of the Art Institute of Phil.,
    majoring in  Fashion Illustration and Graphic Art.  
  • She was accidentally introduced to color pencils when she mistakenly signed up
    for an adult-ed class, thinking is was a drawing class, and immediately fell in love
    with the medium.  Her specialty is portraits, either human or animal, and is
    available for commissioned work .  Currently serving on the board of CPSA St.
    Augustine District Chapter and a member of the Flagler County Art League.  


  • Supply List
  • Beginners' Drawing  
  • Liz Monaco


  • 1.  Pad Drawing Paper  9 x 12 or larger
  • 2.  Graphite pencils   - H2, H3, H4, HB, B2, B4, B6
  • 3.  Erasers: Factis Black 18
  • 4.  Kneaded Eraser
  • 5.  Pencil sharpener
  • 6.  12 “ Ruler