2006 FRIDAY WORKSHOP WITH
Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen
How to Sketch and Illustrate Wildlife – Enhancing Your Art Skills 101
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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