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Was this email forwarded to you? Welcome to the Drawing Board #15!Happy September! Welcome to the start of a new semester: Class prep at the two colleges have kept me very busy this past August, but I feel focused, prepared, and excited for the new academic year! I know some of you are teachers and students, and I hope you feel the same! I have new blog posts & podcasts that will be published very soon, as well as a number of new courses that start up within the next week and half! More below! Blog Post Round Up:Blog posts are coming back! I want to thank those of you who have reached out asking about them. They're a lot of fun to put together, and I have a few in the works that I'll be able to publish in the next few weeks. Are there any topics you're interested in? I'm working on material posts, technique and time management posts, and of course, art history ones as well. Here are some previous favorites:
Podcast Round Up:We've released eight podcast episodes so far, with many more having already been recorded! I'm very excited to share the new episodes with you as I find the time to edit and present them properly- in the meantime, please checkout some of these highlighted episodes:
New Classes for Fall 2025: Starting as Soon as Next Week!Alongside my college courses that are starting up, I have three in-person New York Academy of Art CE courses that are open to the public, and one new focused online course through the Open Sketchbook! Join me in-person Saturdays at the New York Academy of Art for my Strategic Drawing (AM) and Long Pose Drawing & Painting (PM) courses. They both start up this Saturday! Join me Friday afternoons in-person at the Academy to study figure drawing from an anatomical perspective! It's a new course, and it'll be a lot of fun! Lastly, join me online for a new skeletal anatomy course! "Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
-Virginia Woolf
Weekly Sketch Starter: "Something Light & Delicate"Inspired by one of our awesome Discord members, Marla, who requested something light and delicate for August's Still-Life Club images, I put together a series of plant-based photographs for us to work from. Here's one of them: New anatomically themed still-life club photos coming later this week for September! Thanks so much for looking over the newsletter! It's a bit of round-up this week. Next week you can look forward to some more art material and technique tips! (How do you hold your pencil?) Happy drawing, https://learn.theopensketchbook.com/ Join our Discord: |
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Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here for more Welcome to the Drawing Board #21! Happy Sunday All! I hope you've had a great week. In between packing up the sold flat-file sale artworks, cleaning the studio, teaching the high school kids, and working my courses for the upcoming semester, I've been tackling thoughts about the art-making process and some fun strategies that I don't think get a lot of love very often. So this newsletter is about recalibration in the middle-game of an...
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here for more Welcome to the Drawing Board #20! Good morning! I hope you're enjoying your summer! I've been working the high school students out here in PA for PCA&D's pre-college summer classes, and it's been a real blast. I wanted to let you know about a few things coming up, lots happening, as usual: I have a new online weekend workshop coming up for the first weekend in August (there's a discount code below!), a quick update on the flat-file sale...
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here for more Today Is The Last Day For My Flat File Sale! The sale has been very successful, and I'm thrilled so many artworks are escaping the flat file drawers and going out into the world to be appreciated. Today is the last day of the sale, and I wanted to highlight a few of the remaining artworks. Grisaille Painting Demo This demonstration was created for one of my online workshops focusing on "Grisaille". In person you can really see the...