Rachel Wells Studio

Free

About

Drawing & Painting Lessons for Adults and Children

Individual classes for artists. Beginners welcome!
If you come to the studio we can paint together and talk. Our talks combine critique, answering questions, my giving suggestions.
Our work will be dynamic, and you will always have either a brush, pencil or stick of charcoal in your hand.
Two hour painting sessions are ideal.
Home work, can be given, and all art that you do develops the artist within and without.
Learn to leave the details for the end, find and develop the big elements of your drawing or painting first. Discover the dynamic line and develop manual dexterity with eye hand coordination.
Train yourself to see, and then draw what you see.
Perspective and the Landscape. Drawing interiors, magical or realistic. The self portrait.
Color development. Composition....how to set up and draw a still life...the metaphysics of the ordinary object.
Where to position your lighting and why. Drawing...how to use charcoal, soft pastel,
oil pastel, conte crayon, pencil and pen and ink. Changing scale....How to enlarge or reduce.
Painting...acrylic, gouache, oil pastel and soft pastel and oil paints.
Learn how to stretch and prepare a canvas for painting with oil or acrylic.

$40 / hr private lesson
$55 / hr lesson in your home - or higher fee depends on your location.

My studio is 2 1/2 blocks from the "L" subway