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Drawing in Carbon Dust

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $159
  • 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Chicago, IL
  • over 2 sessions

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  • $159
  • Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center @ 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Chicago, IL 60022
  • over 2 sessions
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Class Description

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What you'll learn in this drawing class:

Carbon dust is a beautiful, versatile, and little-known medium that lends itself to both broad, painterly expression and to extremely fine detail. It is appropriate to all botanical subjects as well as to landscapes and still lifes. Working on various paper with a variety of black pigments (applied with both brushes and pencils, we will focus on botanicals to explore many rich possibilities. The School's CEUs=0.9

Required Materials:

• Tracing paper, 11" x 14"pad
• Drawing board
• Kneaded eraser
• Scissors
• X-acto knife
• Tape
• Lint-free rag such as a diaper or very old t-shirt
• small container with tight fitting lid (e.g. baby food jar)
• Metal nail file (for making dust from Wolff pencils) OR other fine metal file from hardware OR large medium fine emery boards

Brushes:
• Flat synthetic brush (inexpensive), about ¼ to 1/2 inch (both if possible)
• Round watercolor brushes, inexpensive, # 8 and #1 (or similar size); larger if you have them

Graphite Pencils:
• lead holder with 2H and 2B leads
or
• Monolith or other woodless pencils, HB, 2B works okay: ordinary graphite pencils, 2H, B, 4B

Carbon Pencils:

• Wolff Carbon Pencils, 2B and 6B (or 4B if you can't find 6B) (from art store)

Specimens:

• Some will be provided, but you are encouraged to bring your own as well. Please bring your own photo if you wish to paint an animal subject.

Drawing substrates will be supplied by instructor at cost; there will be a fee of approx. $5.00 

Refund Policy

Refund requests must be submitted to [email protected] 2 business days prior to the program’s start date and time. The registration fee will be refunded less a 15% processing charge. A refund is issued in the form of a credit on file (to be used for future programs).

Refund requests submitted less than 48 hours prior to a program start date are non-transferable and are not eligible for a refund.

Fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable on and after the program’s start date. We cannot refund fees requested on or after the start date of a program or for sessions missed due to student illness or other personal situations.

Registration fees for courses grouped and priced as a series will be considered one program and subject to all of the above guidelines. A refund request must be received prior to the start date of the series' first class session and will subsequently cancel your registration in every session of the series.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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