Wednesday: Drawing Foundations Color III online [Ages 8-11]

Drawing Foundations Color III is now online.  This class will provide children a studio experience from their own home. All lessons will be led by our Teaching Artist Aarti Mantri and allow your child to socialize with other students in the class. You must have internet on a device with a built in camera to participate. Continue building skills learned in the Foundations I course, such as techniques, drawing vocabulary and the drawing tools of an artist. We will explore hues, tones, shading and light sources with drawing techniques like scribbling, cross-hatching, and stippling to create depth and draw realistic subjects by perfecting every feature with colored pencil skills.

Materials Needed:

Bristol mixed media spiral book (11x14 OR 9x12)

Graphite pencils - 2H, 2B, 4B

Eraser (Kneaded if possible)

Pencil Sharpener

Stumps for smudging 

Ultra fine black sharpie

Color Pencils (preferably Prismacolor set of 72)

About the Teaching Artist
Aarti Mantri is a freelance artist in acrylic and mixed media paintings based in New Jersey. Art has always been a part of her since childhood; she was inspired and encouraged by her mother who is an artist in India. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design and worked for over 5 years in the field, specializing in stained glass and landscaping. Nonetheless, her passion for fine arts forced her to pursue a career as a painter. Most of her work is on canvas with various techniques and mediums that adds texture to a painting. Aarti conducts classes and workshops for children and adults, and is a certified Grumbacher Art instructor. Her goal is to train her students with the easy skills of painting at the same time encourage to use their own imagination and ideas.