(Online) Mixed Media: Experimental Drawing with Joren Lidholm

(Online) Mixed Media: Experimental Drawing with Joren Lidholm

Class | Available

2129 S Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 United States
Online - Zoom
All Levels
4/12/2025-6/14/2025
10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Fri
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$495.00

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(Online) Mixed Media: Experimental Drawing with Joren Lidholm

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What do we really see? How do we use materials? This class will explore and expand the boundaries of traditional approaches to drawing media and concepts. Students will discover that the more deeply they look at the spaces and objects around them, the more unexpected and surprising they become. Close observation reveals new visual discoveries and a transformation in seeing occurs. Using drawing materials and paper at hand, but in ways that may be new to them, students will expand their basic observational skills and individual vocabularies into more personal ways of drawing. Risk-taking and fearlessness will be encouraged, leading to invention. Elements and principles of design will be employed more expansively to build drawings that push to the next level. Working from still life, interior/exterior space, the figure, as well as memory or imagination, students increase their understanding of the basic principles of drawing three-dimensional forms in space. 

Principles that will be covered include:

•weight, 

•balance, 

• rhythm, 

•movement, 

•contrast,

• and unity

  • Materials List - These are the materials you will need for this class.

    Basic Supplies - core essentials


    1 Sketchbook at 9"x12" or 11"x14" -- 60lb. or heavier weight is best

    Pencils: 2H, 2B, 4B, 6B (one each)

    Any soft lead pencils with a sheen that is more dark and less silver (for example: black charcoal pencil)

    1 Staedtler white plastic eraser



    Recommended Supplies - additional items you should get


    1 Pad of 18”x24” white bond drawing paper 70lb or heavier

    1 can of aerosol fixative spray (400 ml), or equivalent product such as hairspray

    1 plastic twelve inch ruler

    1 Box of soft vine charcoal

    Canson paper (Bristol or watercolor); 19"x24" - 6 single sheets, both vellum (3) + smooth (3) surfaces

    2 to 3 sticks (or 1 box) of soft compressed charcoal 

    (*Charkole is an old brand of compressed charcoal. The bigger pieces are better. Be sure to look for a kind that's soft.)

    1 to 2 (sticks of) Black and Sanguine Conte crayon

    1 to 2 (sticks of) White Conte crayon



    Optional Supplies


    1 sable watercolor brush or Hake wash brush (1" or wider)

    2 to 3 Sumi, bamboo or calligraphic brushes (in small & medium sizes with sharp pointed tip) 

    (*Please note: the above brushes can be found in the all-in-one, 5 piece "Bamboo brush set")

    1 bottle of black ink (Sumi or India type ink - 2 oz is enough)

    1 jar of acrylic matte medium (200ml or larger)

    Scissors - 1 household pair

    1 plastic round palette for holding ink/watercolor, with multiple wells

    Chamois cloth

    Blending stubs for pencil & charcoal

    1 to 3 small household cups or jars (plastic or glass)

    1 household rag or cloth

    Found objects

Joren Lindholm