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For the young artist who loves to draw and wants to explore new techniques.
This course is for beginners and experienced young artists alike learn proportion and composition, while developing keen observational skills. Students will draw and paint from observation and improve technical skills. Emphasis is on fundamental principles, such as line, shape, form, color, composition, perspective and more.
Programs taking place online:An access link will be emailed to you after purchase.
Programs taking place in our NYC facilities:Please read our safety guidelines before visiting our building.
Programs taking place online and in our NYC facilities:Please select which experience you wish to participate in when registering. Online participants will be emailed an access link after purchase. In-person participants should read our safety guidelines before attending the program.
Rick Bleier has been teaching drawing, painting and cartooning, in a wide variety of media, for over 40 years. He has taught both children and adults, working for NYC-based organizations such as Studio In A School, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Community College, Childrens' Museum Of The Arts, LEAP and of course 92nd Street Y. Rick is a freelance illustrator and writer: his work is largely about the confluence of Word + Image; he is currently working on 1. an illustrated narrative "memoir" — a "graphic novel" autobiography recounting his various picares ...
Rick Bleier has been teaching drawing, painting and cartooning, in a wide variety of media, for over 40 years. He has taught both children and adults, working for NYC-based organizations such as Studio In A School, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Community College, Childrens' Museum Of The Arts, LEAP and of course 92nd Street Y. Rick is a freelance illustrator and writer: his work is largely about the confluence of Word + Image; he is currently working on 1. an illustrated narrative "memoir" — a "graphic novel" autobiography recounting his various picaresque adventures traveling the country, and 2. an exhaustive illustrated bio of Jack Kerouac. Work has been published by Rolling Stone and The Village Voice; he has also done artwork for Saturday Night Live, Night Of Too Many Stars and New Jersey Goodlife. Rick's editorial strip, "Ral Boomer," can be found twice monthly in Connecticut's Advocate and Greenwich Time, two Hearst news-dailies.
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