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• 3.5 Day Intro to Drawing Intensive

  • Start
    January 08, 2026
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    6:30 PM
  • End
    January 11, 2026
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    The Drawing Studio, 3614 SE Division, Portland, Oregon
  • Spaces left
    12

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  This workshop will present most of the content of Phil Sylvester's 8 week Intro class in a three and one half day workshop format. Class will meet Thursday evening January 8 through Sunday afternoon January 11. Thursday the 8th, we'll meet from 6:30-8:30pm. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we will have 2, two-hour drawing sessions each day, the first from 10:30am-12:30 and the second from 3:30-5:30pm. That way, students will be able to take an intensive version of Intro that only requires one day off work. We'll work mostly from the human face, self-portraits and photos, just so we can go into one subject very deeply. 

  This class is perfect for brand new drawers, as well as for experienced artists who feel stuck or who have lost their sense of joy in making. Emphasis will be placed equally on observation and expression, description and the pleasure of making. Exercises will break down students’ preconceptions about how drawings come about, so that drawing can become a matter of truly human scale exploration and experimentation, rather than the product of giant leaps of talent or inspiration. All materials will be provided. The workshop will take place at The Drawing Studio, 3614 SE Division, Portland, Oregon.

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• Intro to Drawing 2

  • Start
    January 13, 2026
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    12:30 PM
  • End
    March 03, 2026
  •  
    2:30 PM
  • Location
    3614 SE Division, Portland, OR
  • Spaces left
    4

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  This 8 session, two hour class meets Tuesday mid-day, 12:30-2:30pm, from January 13, 2026 through March 3, 2026. 
  
  This is a new class, open only to students who have already taken Intro to Drawing at The Drawing Studio. The class is basically a continuation of Intro. We'll be able to do things that I'd love to do in Intro if only it were a much longer class. Specifically, we'll do more figure sessions, we'll do sessions where we get to do studies from other artists' work, we'll do more practice sessions where students get to experiment to find what works best for them as individuals, and we'll spend more time exploring risky, screwball approaches to drawing. We'll have a chance to slow down a bit and go deeper into issues that we kind of rush through in Intro. Also, this class will make the transition to Intermediate classes a bit less of a jump.

  All students who are new to Phil's teaching should wait until Spring Term to enroll in the Intro 1 class, even if experienced. For those of you who are experienced, I've never had an experienced student feel that Intro 1 was redundant and all have remarked that the class really helped their work and their process.

  
  Materials: Just brings charcoals, graphite, and erasers, all the stuff you used in Intro.

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• Beginning and Intermediate Painting

  • Start
    January 17, 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    March 07, 2026
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • Location
    3614 SE Division, Portland, OR
  • Spaces left
    0

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  This 8 session, three hour class meets Saturday mornings 10am-1pm from January 17, 2026 through March 7, 2026. All first time Drawing Studio students, no matter how experienced, must take Intro to Drawing 1 at The Drawing Studio before taking this class. 
  
  

  Beginning painting exercises will help students become comfortable experimenting with acrylic paint, using paint expressively, and reworking paintings. Breadth of color familiarity will be encouraged through color mixing exercises. More experienced acrylic painters may also take this class and elect to follow the exercises or work independently as they choose. There will be occasional figure models but fewer than in the Intermediate Drawing class (depending upon the number of experienced painters in the group and their interests).

  
  

  Materials: For the first session, painters should bring some acrylic colors you like, acrylic titanium white, acrylic gloss gel medium, some cheap brushes about 3/4 to 1 inch wide, and any shape palette knife. We will begin painting on the studio paper, so no canvasses are necessary. Drawers only need to bring graphite, charcoal, and erasers. Paper will always be provided.

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