Drawing Water

Water, a most essential element. Transfixing to watch, enjoyable and challenging to draw and paint. We’ll meet at parks and other outdoor locations, observing and drawing from the water, whether close-up, on the “shore” of a small lake, or viewing the Ohio River from an Eden Park overlook. We’ll draw water’s movement, reflections, colors. And we’ll develop a sense of its place in our compositions, as well as in art history, and the world. Color theory will be included, and you’re also encouraged to work with color intuitively.

Choose and combine your media: from “traditional” drawing media (graphite, charcoal, conté crayon, etc.), to drawing media with color (oil pastels, water-soluble oil pastels, colored pencils, etc.), to ink to watercolor, and more.

Ages 16+

On the first day of class, please bring with you:

• White paper pad: good quality drawing paper (about 60 lb or better); at least 11” x 14”; 50 -100 sheets, or watercolor paper, if you plan to use watercolor
• Bring the materials you’re most interested in trying out or continuing to work with (see list above).
• Cloth rag(s), cotton balls, q-tips, tortillons, etc., for smudging, smoothing, cleaning, etc.
• Erasers, esp. a kneaded eraser, if you choose “traditional” drawing materials.

Deb Brod

Deb Brod enjoys teaching art and sharing her love of art-making and its countless therapeutic effects with people of all ages. She has taught and led community-based art projects through the Ohio Arts Council, community arts centers, schools, art museums, and many other organizations. She has created artwork for commissions (including for the Taft Museum of Art and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital), and exhibited her artwork made with many media and approaches including, painting, textiles, and installation, in the midwest (including at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center), and occasionally other parts of the country and the world. In college, she studied French, art history, and fine art, culminating in a masters degree in fine art in painting. Although her work often appears abstract, or non-representational, the sources of her inspiration draw on both her inner life and the outer world, and range from nature to human nature.

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