FREE VIRTUAL ART MAKING WITH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
The Arts Council of Princeton partners with the Princeton University Art Museum to provide free virtual art-making classes. Weekly classes are taught by ACP artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom. With an emphasis on drawing with colored pencils on paper, each week’s lesson in this series will be inspired by a still life from the Museum’s collections.
To watch recordings of previous lessons, click here.
Drawing Light from the Collections:
Colored pencils
An Introduction to Still Life
This live art-making class is inspired by Paul Cézanne’s watercolor painting Three Pears (Trois poires), ca. 1888–90. In this session, we will explore drawing basic shapes that are illuminated by a single light source.
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Focus on Drapery
This live art-making class is inspired by Walter Stuempfig’s oil painting Still Life (20th century). In this session, we will explore drawing drapery with a focus on the anatomy of folds and creases.
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Exploring Color and Light
This live art-making class is inspired by this oil painting Still Life (n.d.), created by an unidentified artist active in the Netherlands. In this session, we will explore how light reveals form and the properties of color.
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Abstracting a Still Life
This live art-making class is inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s screen print Still Life (1997). In this session, we will draw a still life using the techniques of abstraction.
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Events will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar by clicking the “CC” icon. To access Spanish-language captioning, open Streamtext, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning.
Para acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar “español” o el idioma de su elección.
LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.