Early Bird Registration Price Until August 31

$225

Registration Price After August 31-September 13

$260

Registration Closes September 13

4 Ways to Register

1.*PREFERRED* Venmo: Send to @Lorraine-Glessner (7027 phone digits) **Please send me your email!!! Venmo does NOT include an email with receipt!

2. Paypal: Send $234 to ($270 after August 31) to lorraineglessnerstudio@gmail.com

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4. Zelle: to lorraineglessnerstudio@gmail.com

You would like to develop a cohesive body of work, but don’t know where or how to begin.

You exclaim repeatedly that you can’t draw.

You have tried to develop a daily mark-making practice but you lose momentum.

You make marks, look at them judgmentally, feel ridiculous and burn your sketchbook in effigy.

You feel that mark-making is a waste of time when you could be doing other things in your studio.

You had a horribly insensitive teacher in 7th grade who made disparaging comments about your drawings.

You really want to begin mark-making and purchased a lovely sketchbook, fabulous drawing tools and then the fear of the white page left you paralyzed.

You have no confidence in anything you do creatively and just feel that you should pack it in and quit.

You’ve been away from the studio for a while and want to get back into it, but don’t know where to start.

You’re a painter or a sculptor, what do you need with drawing anyway?

You feel your marks don’t look like anything and therefore, are useless.

You would like to develop your own unique artistic voice.

Each meeting, we will greet one another briefly and you will be given a short mark-making prompt to get you started. Prompts will not be given in advance.

A timer will be set and you will continue to make marks until the timer stops, usually in 10-15 minute increments.

During your drawing time, the aim is to respond to the prompts with little or no thought. Just respond and keep moving. Once you’ve let yourself get lost in the process, it becomes a very relaxing exercise and you begin to lose the judgement that you normally put upon yourself.

You may work on whatever mark-making project you would like for however long you would like, the point is to be present. For example, if you would like to work back into a drawing you started earlier or would like to continue working on the same page for the entire hour, you may do so.

There is no formal sharing or critique, unless you would like to briefly share at the end of the hour.

The words drawing and mark-making are used interchangeably.

Visit this blog post to get an idea of what the prompts will be like.

You could start out with a piece of paper and pencil for the first six weeks, I just want to see you drawing!

I will send out a detailed list of supplies well before the first class begins so you’re all ready to go. I will also treat you to a video of all of my favorite sketchbook and mark-making supplies.

If you’d like to get an idea, a basic list of suggested materials looks something like this: a mixed media sketchbook, a basic watercolor set, a water soluble drawing tool (ex. ink, water soluble graphite, caran d'ache crayons, etc) and a non-water soluble drawing tool (pencils, pens, gel pens, etc), white acrylic paint/tempura paint/poster paint-doesn't have to be expensive, found mark-making tools like combs, plastic lids, etc and a application tools like brushes, spatulas, silicone artists tools, brayers, Catalyst wedges or something similar.

Although its way more fun to attend the live classes, I understand that most people won't be able to make it to every class.

The recordings will be available for the duration of the 12 weeks plus four weeks following the last class.

I do suggest that those who are relying on the recordings reserve a special day of the week and time of day to complete the class. The main goal of this class is to create a habit and commitment to mark-making and doing this at the same day and time each week makes the habit easier to fit into your life.