Drawing What you See with Frank Valdez 7/16

Class #2700.206
Saturday 7/16, 11am-1pm
Cost: $5
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Join Studio Resident Frank Valdez and learn the techniques needed to draw accurately. Exercises include copying Bargue line drawings and drawing still lifes in pencil. Although the importance of drawing from life will be emphasized, these techniques can be used to draw from your own photo references as well - accurate drawing has limitless applications! Participants will work at their own pace. Newsprint, easels, and pencils provided. For beginning to intermediate students.

Francisco Valdez was raised in Texas. He is a graduate of UCLA, and has attended both Art College Center of Design in Pasadena, CA a...nd Grand Central Atelier in New York, New York. Recent awards include Audience Choice Award at the Los Angeles Plein Aire Festival and Best in Show- Portrait at the Crossland Gallery's Con.FIGURE.ation 2 show. He has also been awarded the Hudson River Fellowship and begins the Camera Obscura Studio Residency in April. He currently splits his time between El Paso and Los Angeles.
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