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How to Sketch and Illustrate
Wildlife – Enhancing Your Art Skills 101
Friday, May 19, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Kirtland House
Kirtland community College
Here’s your chance to learn how
to draw and sketch wildlife from one of Michigan’s premier
wildlife artists and illustrators, Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen,
best know as “Nick.” This day-long workshop is designed for the
beginner and intermediate artist, and will be conducted Friday,
May 19, the day before the Kirtland’s Warbler Festival, at
Kirtland Community College, from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Nick, who is also the Featured
Artist at this year’s festival, will start out the workshop with
a meet-the-artist slide show, then spend the remainder of the
morning teaching and sharing – in a step-by-step process – the
basics of field sketching and wildlife sketching. This is a very
hands-on workshop. Everyone will be encouraged to do their own
sketching and drawing. Nick and his wife, Robbyn, a children’s
book author, will provide all the needed art supplies.
The focus will switch to
painting in the afternoon. Nick will share where he paints, how
he paints, what materials he uses and where he gets his models –
and demonstrate his painting techniques by finishing a wildlife
painting.
Nick loves doing these
workshops and has done a ton of them. Come prepared to have fun
and get good instruction from beginning to end.
The cost of the workshop is $35
and includes a nice lunch.
Location for the workshop is
the Kirtland House – the college’s conference center – on the
south side of the campus. Participants should try to arrive by
at least 9:15 a.m. for refreshments and a chance to meet the
artist before the workshop begins.
For more information call the
Kirtland House at 989-275-5000, ext. 418.
Registration can be made by
sending a check for $35, made out to Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen,
to Kirtland Community College, c/o Kirtland House, 10775 N. St.
Helen Road, Roscommon, MI 48653.
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