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Intermediate Drawingw/Mamie DuffA twelve (12) session courseNo class 11/25
Intermediate Drawing
Here’s the class for folks who have some comfort with drawing (maybe you took Beginning Drawing already) and who want to further their skills in accuracy and shading.
Over 12 weeks, we will be borrowing elements of the rigorous classical training programs that were foundational for greats from Sargent to Picasso. We will do a few drawings from drawings, but most classes will focus on drawing from still life set-ups in the classroom.
We will get picky about accuracy, in pursuit of making drawings that pop off the page and make you proud. We’ll talk about angles, distances, line quality, light, shadow shapes and much more, giving you a range of tools with which to hone your craft.
It’s hard, it’s fun, and I can’t wait to welcome you to a level of skill you didn’t know you had.
Materials list:

Drawing pencils: At least: HB, 2B, 4B, 2H, 4H.
Kneaded eraser, white eraser, brush (for flicking off eraser dust)
Drawing paper, at least 9x12 inches, smooth surface
Drawing board large enough for your paper
Clamps or tape to hold paper to surface (unless the surface already has a clamp built in)
Gray scale (This is an inexpensive little flat tool available from Dick Blick or Jerry’s Artarama—put it in the Search function)
About Mamie Duff
From the age of about 2, my passion has been to make images that look real. I have been fascinated by reproducing the shiny coats of horses, the weight of a juicy apple, or the contours of a human model for as long as I can remember. For me, everything—whether a person, dog, landscape or apple—is a portrait of a particular moment.
That love of realism was not fashionable when I was first learning to use the tools of art; the focus was on abstraction of various sorts. It wasn’t until I was in my 40s that I found the classical, step-by-step training I had always wanted. Over 3 years I progressed from simple 10-minute line drawings to multi-week finished renderings of human faces and bodies. The graphite drawing of a man in Renaissance attire shown below won second place in the juried New Hope Art Show (after an oil painting).

In this class, I’ll share a very condensed version of that 3-year training that will give you a good foundation. You’ll make least one drawing (likely of a simple still life) that you can be proud of by the end of our time together.
In this class, I’ll share a very condensed version of that 3-year training that will give you a good foundation. You’ll make least one drawing (likely of a simple still life) that you can be proud of by the end of our time together.

Prerequisites

2026-2027 Adult Membership
or 2026-2027 Family Membership
or 2026-2027 Senior Membership
or 2026-2027 Supporting Benefactor Membership
or 2026-2027 Supporting Patron Membership
or 2026-2027 Adult Membership

Instructor

Mamie Duff