Introduction to Drawing B with Courtney Applequist

Introduction to Drawing B with Courtney Applequist

Class | This class is completed

Beginner
4/18/2025-6/20/2025
10:00 AM-1:00 PM EST on Fri
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$495.00

Introduction to Drawing B with Courtney Applequist

Class | This class is completed 

This is an introductory course designed for beginners who have had minimal experience with drawing. This class is the second in three introductory classes. While it covers basic techniques and vocabulary, it also builds on the first introductory class. Students will practice a range of exercises that will arm them with the necessary knowledge to take drawing a step further and make it more personal. Process as a means not to an end but as an end itself will be a basis by which this class is taught.
Individual as well as group critiques and discussions will be conducted. By the end of this class and after serious completion of class work and assignments, students should be able to have an expanded drawing vocabulary and strong technical ability which would enable them to proceed to the next level of drawing. 
 
Who this class is for: While it is encouraged that this be taken after Introduction to Drawing A, students with no prior experience with drawing may register for this class. Exercises are designed to accommodate a range of students, from beginners to more experienced students.
   
                                

                            
			
          
                        

        	            
        		
                            
                            

				

    

  • Introduction to Drawing Basic Supply List for the Washington Studio School:
    • Pencils: HB, 2B, 4B, 6B (optional: F, 8B) 
    • Eraser: Tri-tip white triangular eraser; Staedler Eraser, kneaded eraser 
    • Coates Vine charcoal (small box) 
    • Charkole (or other soft compressed charcoal)
    • General’s hard compressed charcoal sticks
    • Charcoal Pencils (General’s kit of 5)
    • Artist tape or masking tape 
    • Ruler  
    • Sharpener 
    • Newsprint paper, 18” x 24” 
    • Pad of white drawing paper, 18” x 24”, 80lbs (Canson Biggie or something similar)
    • Chamois Cloth
    • One White Conte stick, One red conte stick 
    • 20x26 Mesh zipper bag
    • Ebony Pencil
    • Woodless Graphite
    • Paper towels - WSS does not provide these for personal use
    Optional:
    • Drawing Board
    • Toned Paper
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Applequist, Courtney







Courtney Applequist


Courtney Applequist is an interdisciplinary artist based in Potomac, MD. Her work explores a range of media, with a focus on painting and drawing using architecture as a foundational framework and asserting a visualization of movement, time, and the debris as a consequence of it. With a deep interest in the use of portraiture as an examination of an individual and their context, she is exploring the possibilities that form offers, expanding ideas of identity and the relationship of materiality & scale.

Courtney holds a BFA from Baylor University and studied painting at the Washington Studio School. She has exhibited in various galleries locally, SXSW in Austin, TX, Delegation of the European Union, WashingtonDC, and is currently represented by AdahRose Gallery. Her work was highlighted in the Washington Post (June 2023) and she is a 2023 GLB Project Seed Grant recipient . Applequist is a co-founding member of the ICEbox Collective, a multimodal artist group whose work fosters critical thought and dialogue across cultural boundaries through a collaborative social & public art practice. Her work with ICEbox Collective received the AIR Grant from ArtsFairfax, Virginia, was published in ArtMargins MITPress, and exhibited at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, Transformer DC, the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC and La Casa del Maquio in Mexico.

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