Dive "head first" into portraiture and figure drawing in this two-part workshop for anyone looking for fun and learning. Absolute beginners are welcome. Instructor Julie Read, an acrylic painter specializing in realism, will guide you step-by-step on drawing portraits, sampling a variety of drawing tools and papers. She will share tried and true methods of finding proportion and capturing likeness, managing values, and developing your own style. All supplies are provided for this session, except for clothes you don't mind getting dirty and a plan for your lunch break.

$128 members/ $160 Non-member

Instructor bio: Julie Read (she/her) began painting at the age of thirty, inspired by the artwork of a rural folk artist in Dorset, VT while on a road trip. She later studied with Max Grover in Port Townsend, Washington. After 4 years of eager practice, she had a solo exhibition at the Max Grover Gallery and has continued to work as a fine artist ever since. The notion that “painters paint what they know," motivates her work and her teaching, as do objects and stories from her middle-class, suburban upbringing within the windswept plains and sun-soaked Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. She embraces content of all flavors, including absurd, bizarre, scary, imbalanced, complicated, meaningless and beautiful. Read lives and works in Port Townsend, WA.

Guest website/social:

artbyjulieread.com IG @juliejuliereadread