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This course is sold out. To be added to a wait list, please email [email protected]. If space becomes available, guests will be contacted by the Museum’s Education staff.

Dates: Fridays, September 26, October 10, 17, 31 and November 14, 21
Instructor: Melissa Manfull

Places and Spaces: Drawing from the Norton Simon Museum Collection

Join teaching artist Melissa Manfull and learn to capture the feeling and energy of the different places represented in the Museum’s collection. Through observational drawing, students explore how to delineate the depth, mood and temperature of a certain time and place. Each week, the class studies drawing techniques and compositional choices that capture the characteristics of a specific period or movement. The class culminates in a lesson on bookbinding, where students have the opportunity to assemble their sketchbook pages into a booklet.

Details: All levels of experience are welcome. This course (6 classes) is $210 ($168 for members) and missed classes are not reimbursable. Course cancellation must be made by September 19 to receive a refund. Please contact [email protected].

Classes are held on select Fridays in September through November from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Friday, September 26: Sketching on the Go
Friday October 10: Baroque Spaces
Friday, October 17: Capturing Interiors and People
Friday, October 31: Architecture and Perspective Techniques
Friday, November 14: Impressionist Landscapes
Friday, November 21: Abstraction and Simplification