Wednesday-Friday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Saturday: 10:00am - 2:00pm
1006 Penn Ave., La Grande, OR 97850
PO Box 541, La Grande, OR 97850
[email protected]
541-624-2800
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Register early to avoid class cancellations – classes must reach minimum enrollment 48 hours prior to their scheduled start time in order to run.
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Life Drawing Workshop (Age 18+)
May 10 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$55.00
May 10 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Are you a beginner-level artist who wants to learn the basic skills of drawing the human figure? Are you an experienced artist who simply never learned how to draw people well? Join Teaching Artist Rob for a series of studio classes with a live model to improve your drawings with confidence and expression! Rob will teach you about body proportions and how to project them in three dimensions using light and shadow to express form (these basic skills are more important than fussing over minor details of anatomy). Composition and various media will be covered, with tips from the “Old Masters.” Participants are encouraged to experiment with media and stylistic approaches. All supplies included. However, feel free to bring your own media and paper if you wish. Please enter through the 5th Street door.
Teaching Artist: Rob Kemp
Cost: $55 Member / $60 Non-Member
Location: Art Center East
Rob Kemp has been passionate about drawing the human figure since he was a teen – his subjects were superheroes then. He later moved on to weekly life-drawing sessions at an art club in Portland, Oregon. Although he has sketched and painted other subjects over the years, he has always returned to the human form: now the focus of his work. Rob has organized life drawing sessions off and on for twenty years at his Joseph, Oregon, studio. He assisted in teaching life drawing at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph in 2024. Rob has a BFA in Design with upper-level classes in painting at the University of Washington. He lives in Joseph.
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Registration cancellations & transfers must be made through Art Center East at (541) 624-2800 48 hours or more before the class start time. We cannot issue refunds or transfers for cancellations received after the 48-hour cutoff. Exceptions will be considered for medical or family emergencies. ACE will honor a refund, minus a $10 administration fee when the cancellation is made 48 hours or more before class start date. When a class is canceled due to low enrollment, we will issue a refund for all registration fees. ACE will contact you in the event of a cancellation. Face coverings will be required in accordance with statewide regulations current at the time.
HOURS
Monday - Friday: 10AM - 4PM
Saturday: Noon - 4PM
Wednesday-Friday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
