Description
CHRISTINA WEAVER
NATURAL ORDER: DRAWING PLANTS
3 Day Workshop
October 6–8, 2023
10:00 – 5:00p
Plants, in their endless variety of forms, offer abundant material for the observational artist. In this class we will capture nature’s intricacies through the drawing of an overgrown botanical still life (in studio). Stems, leaves, branches, and petals will guide our explorations of line, shape, value, and texture. Using a range of black and white media —pencil, collage, ink—we will employ various approaches for taking on tangles of foliage, from short exercises that demand quick responses, to longer studies that call for deep looking. A review of drawing basics, including proportion, spatial relationships, and value structure, will help us organize and compose layers of visual information. Although emphasis will be on accurate representation, students will be encouraged to respond expressively to and with the subject and tools. Mornings will be for warmups, lectures, and demonstrations. Students will work on extended projects in the afternoon, guided by one-on-one instruction. All experience levels are welcome.
Biography:
Christina Weaver (born 1987) grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington. She has received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for artists who work representationally and was awarded the Scheidt Memorial Travel Scholarship in 2011. In 2015 she was a resident artist at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she has taught art in a variety of settings. She currently teaches drawing and painting at University of North Carolina Asheville. Her paintings are exhibited nationwide, and her work has been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Christina lives near Waynesville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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