The Drawing Studio offers drawing and painting classes for adults taught by Phil Sylvester. Classes meet evenings and weekends and are designed for anyone from true beginners to experienced artists who want to get their work rolling again. Sylvester’s method emphasizes loosening the student up so she/he becomes more comfortable experimenting and inventing technique. "I believe humans are naturally designed to draw, perceptually, neurologically, muscularly, kinesthetically, the works. However, obviously, many of us feel we can’t. We assume we are missing something, talent, the right techniques, whatever. Twenty-five years of experience have taught me that what holds us back is actually our very assumptions, our preconceptions about how drawings come about, what the steps are, what is behind being able to draw." Sylvester designs exercises to suspend those preconceptions so that students can begin experimenting freely without fear of failure. Once the process is underway, students quickly realize that growth as a drawer is dependent solely on breadth of experimentation and practice. "Essentially, I demystify drawing so that students personally experience that progress in drawing is made through regular old human scale efforts rather than through abilities available only to a select few." Phil Sylvester has a BA in mathematics from Reed College, a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University, was Director of Academic Affairs at Oregon School of Design, and taught at Lewis and Clark College. Sylvester’s art has been shown in Portland, Seattle, New Orleans, and Vancouver B.C.. |
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