Art-Making l Drawing: Light, Values and Shading

The Art Museum is partnering with the Arts Council of Princeton to provide free online art-making experiences. Classes are taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom, so participants can join live from their home computers; techniques emphasize drawing with pen or pencil on paper. Each lesson features works from the Museum’s collections.

In the second session, we will focus on learning the value scale and how to apply those light and dark tones to various shapes to create a three-dimensional effect. We will turn a circle into a sphere with shading, then look for places we can use that technique in representing elements from a still life