Instructor: Olja Stipanovic

Skill level: All Levels

Date: Wednesday, August 5th, 2026

Time: 6pm - 9pm

All drawing workshops begin with the focus on observation and the engagement with what we see through multisensory awareness [your own breath and posture, the temperature, light and sounds. Focus is recentered on the object, the mark making utensil and the ground [paper].

In order to translate observation into marks on the paper, strategies and techniques will be demonstrated and explored. We will combine technical drawing instruction with exercises that emphasize the physicality of drawing and intentionality and focus we can draw from observation. Drawing techniques will address line quality, texture, tonality, mark making and more. 

In this workshop, you will acquire a diversity of drawing techniques while seeking a wider insight into the meaning of making marks on paper. Drawing and visually describing people, spaces, and objects will be used as a vehicle into a deeper understanding of one’s relationship to what is observed and with the act of drawing itself. 

SUPPLIES NEEDED

• Assorted paper, Sketchbook or sketch pad

• Drawing board/clip board

• Erasers 

• Rag/Chamois

• Participants are encouraged to use whatever medium they prefer to draw with. Some suggestions are: Pencils/Graphite, Charcoal/Chalk/Sepia, Markers, Pastels