In Studio
- Spring 2023
- Friday
- May 19, 2023
- 1:00 pm
- — 5:00 pm
- 5 Session
- , $75.00
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The Art League School in Old Town Alexandria, VA offers drawing classes and workshops for beginning to advanced students. Basic drawing students work with pencil and charcoal, learning to use line, value, gesture, and perspective. Students work with a variety of subjects, including the figure, still life, and landscape. There are nine different sections offered. More advanced students learn to integrate other media into their work, including pen, ink, and watercolor, and begin to focus on more complex and advanced techniques. Courses are offered year-round, during the week, weekend, day and evening.
The Art League also offers open life drawing sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, for students who wish to draw or paint from a live model in a quiet, monitored environment.
Watch instructor Lisa Semerad demo for her drawing class
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Avis Fleming
- Summer 2023
- Saturday, Sunday
- June 10, 2023
- 11:00 am
- — 4:00 pm
- 2 Session
- , $195.00
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Teresa Oaxaca
- Saturday, Sunday
- June 17, 2023
- 9:30 am
- — 4:30 pm
- 2 Session
- , $200.00
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Patrick Kirwin
- Summer 2023
- Monday
- June 19, 2023
- 7:00 pm
- — 9:30 pm
- 8 Session
- , $210.00
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Mark Malecki
- Summer 2023
- Monday
- June 19, 2023
- 7:00 pm
- — 8:30 pm
- 8 Session
- , $190.00
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Deirdre Saunder
- Summer 2023
- Saturday, Sunday
- June 24, 2023
- 10:15 am
- — 4:15 pm
- 2 Session
- , $200.00
In Studio
Teresa Oaxaca
- Summer 2023
- Saturday, Sunday
- June 24, 2023
- 10:00 am
- — 4:00 pm
- 2 Session
- , $200.00
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Milena Spasic
- Summer 2023
- Sunday
- June 25, 2023
- 10:30 am
- — 1:00 pm
- 8 Session
- , $210.00
In Studio
Jin Chung
- Summer 2023
- Sunday
- June 25, 2023
- 10:30 am
- — 1:30 pm
- 8 Session
- , $215.00
In Studio
Ed McCluney
- Summer 2023
- Thursday
- June 29, 2023
- 7:00 pm
- — 9:30 pm
- 7 Session
In Studio
Lisa Semerad
- Summer 2023
- Wednesday
- July 5, 2023
- 10:15 am
- — 2:15 pm
- 4 Session
- , $175.00
Drawing instructors
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Make the last few days of this snowy winter a little more colorful at The Art League. The school is gearing up for Spring classes, workshops, and Art Camp 2019! Here’s a curated selection of Spring workshops to welcome back longer days and warmer weather:
John Murray’s “Artistic Anatomical Drawing” class could be bone dry. But instead of lectures akin to medical school discourse, Murray incorporates figurative work and his breadth of knowledge of the human body to make figurative work really move.
The Art League has solved that for you in our upcoming Member’s Free Draw, a free studio drawing event for our Art League members that provides models so that you can practice your art.
As someone with a busy career and other life demands, I was feeling depleted creatively. Basic drawing was enriching and fulfilling in ways I didn’t expect.
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Artist and Art League instructor Beverly Ryan’s 'Drone Silhouette' seems to be suspended in air, blades whirling off the ground and ready to strike. We talked to Ryan about her process, her May 2018 Best in Show winning piece Drone Silhouette, and what makes her drone work tick.
We sat down with Jackie Saunders, winner of Best in Show for 2-D Figurative Work in the May Open Exhibit, to discuss her piece Uncertainty.
On Thursday, we held a members-only Draw-a-Thon at The Art League. That means short-pose figure, long-pose portrait, and bring-your-own art materials.
Drawing is the foundation of artistic study. This winter, make it the foundation of a weekend well spent!
The phrase might bring to mind a game of charades, but it's really all about "the essence of rhythm and movement," says John Murray, an Art League instructor who will be teaching Gesture Drawing this Fall.
The 2017–18 school year at The Art League — the best place to take classes in the DC area — has officially begun!
Ranging from five days long to just one, workshops are a perfect way to fit some art into your summer — or to craft your own staycation.
Bacchus stranded in a dry county. Oedipus working on Wall Street. Achilles wielding a rifle.
Drawing transparent objects sounds difficult, but Art League instructor Scott Hutchison demonstrates a simple approach in the video above.
Art League instructor Dan Thompson is one of three artists demonstrating live on Facebook on the evening of Monday, November 28.
As someone with a busy career and other life demands, I was feeling depleted creatively.
Works in colored pencil do not preclude they be exclusively rendered in a full spectrum of “color.”
For anyone who missed last week's lecture on John Singer Sargent, given by scholar Richard Ormond, we have good news!
“I draw energy through line. I have always loved pen & ink, don’t know why. I really prefer black & white.”
What is a tortillon? What's it for, and how's it different from a blending stump?
With Summer registration starting May 11, you might be tempted to think it's too late to join Spring classes. Au contraire!
“I decided against ‘Daydreamer,’ because I didn’t want to assign the figure an identity.”
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