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. Techniques emphasize drawing with pen, pastel paint or pencil on paper. Each week’s lesson features works from the Museum’s collections.
February registration below. Upcoming sessions in June to be announced. Stay tuned for dates.
To watch recordings of previous lessons, click here.
Drawing from the Collections: COLORED PENCILS
Drawing from the Collections | Depicting Metal with Colored Pencils: This week, learn how colored pencils can be used to depict variations in metal, inspired by Eastern Zhou dynasty, mid-Warring States period (ca. 470–221 BCE) to early Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–9 CE), China, Sword-bearer lamp, 4th–2nd century BCE.
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Drawing from the Collections | Choosing Your Pencil Palette: This week, learn how to select the best hues for your drawing project, inspired by Late Classic Period, Veracruz, Mexico, Head of Old Fire God, 600–900 CE.
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Drawing from the Collections | Drapery & Anatomy with Colored Pencils : This week, use your colored pencils to capture details in drawings of drapery and anatomy, inspired by Jacques-Louis David and studio, The Death of Socrates, after 1787.
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Drawing from the Collections | Bold Colors with Pencils : This week, learn how to amplify the richness and saturation of your colored-pencil drawings, inspired by Andy Warhol, Blue Marilyn, 1962.
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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.