AWARD WINNING BRITSH ARTIST SARAH STITT teaches
DRAWING AND PAINTING FOR BEGINNERS

Drawing and Painting For Beginners is an introduction to the language of drawing and painting and will give students confidence to begin expressing themselves on paper or canvas.

The course is an introduction to:
-Overcoming the fear of creativity
-Measuring, perspective and learning to look
-Using various mediums such as pencil, charcoal and ink
-Basic composition
-Color theory
-Getting a feeling for deep and shallow space
-Experimenting with tone
-Various surfaces and tools

SUITABLE FOR ALL LEVELS
This six-week course is designed to inspire confidence in students who want to learn the traditional methods of drawing and painting.

LOCATION
Paradiso Arts, by courtesy of Laura Alvarez MFA
2918 Santa Monica Blvd #2
Santa Monica CA
90404

Class is limited to a maximum of 12 people per 3-hour class. As well as following the techniques of the old masters we will be looking at History of Art for inspiration.

TUITION
$410
Saturdays: 10am to 1pm
From Oct. 8th to Nov. 12th, 2011

CONTACT
For questions about the class, email sarahstitt600@hotmail.com
Sarah’s studio 323 571 2344
Visit Sarah’s website at www.sarahstitt.com or www.sarahstittportraits.com

For questions about Paradiso Arts, email paradisoarts@gmail.com, call Laura at 310 592 5879 or visit the website www.paradisoarts.com

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp on Sarah Stitt’s own work

“Her landscapes rarely include people yet she excels at portraiture especially when
painting her own three children Grace, Gabriel, and Esther. As they change each year, gaining the attributes of adolescence and young adulthood, she paints the loss of youth, the growth of knowledge, and she does so without sentimentality. As with her landscapes, these are paintings not documents, and recall the similarly rigorous stance of American artist Alice Neel. Yet, like her landscapes, these paintings do measure time as it is passed in Los Angeles. “

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is a journalist and art critic living in Los Angeles. Her most recent book, Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s is published by Henry Holt in July 2011