Art Classes SPRING 2025
Spring Term: 10 classes: Tuesday, March 4 to May 13; or Wednesday, March 5 to May 14; or Thursday, March 6 to
May 15, 2025.
Inclement weather: If the Beaverton School District is closed due to inclement weather there will be no art class
To sign up for class please email Ingrid at ingridgharper@gmail.com, or leave a text at 503-803-0199
Price $200 for the term or $25 per class. Cash, check or Zelle payable to Ingrid Harper at the beginning of class.
Supply list: To every class, please bring a spiral bound sketchbook, approximately 9x12 inches. All other materials will be provided in class.
Class time: Classes meet once a week. Please pick one class time from the following:
Wednesday: 6:30-8:00pm; adults
Tuesday: 4:30-6:30 or Thursday: 4:45-6:15pm; ages 7 through 17
NOTE: If you cannot come to your regular class time you are welcome to come for a make-up class within the same week. Please let me know
beforehand which day you will be coming.
SPRING Curriculum
REMEMBER TO BRING A SKETCHBOOK TO EACH CLASS. ALL OTHER MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED
Week 1 Tuesday, March 4, or Wednesday, March 5, or Thursday, March 6
Theme: Line and contrast
Artist: Van Gogh
Materials: Sketchbook, pencils, watercolor and watercolor resist
Using pencils we will draw blooming cherry flower branches. Then we will apply resist to the white blossoms. When the resist is dry we will
apply watercolor washes.
Week 2 Tuesday, March 11, Wednesday, March 12, or Thursday, March 13
Theme: Positive/negative space
Artists: Piet Mondrian and Esher
Materials: Sketch book, ink pens and acrylic markers
We will make a diptych (a two-part image) using mirrored images of geometric shapes. Next, we will make a triptych (a three-part image) of organic
shapes using complementary colors.
Week 3 Tuesday, March 18, Wednesday, March 19, Thursday, March 20
Theme: Sculpture
Arist: Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet
Materials: Sketch book, pencils, air dry sculpture clay, black and white charcoal pencils, and black paper
Getting inspiration from Dubuffet's drawings, we will make a monster sculpture using air drying clay. Then we will draw the sculpture using white
charcoal pencils on dark paper.
SPRING BREAK last week of March. There are no art classes during spring break.
Week 4 Tuesday, April 1, Wednesday, April 2, and Thursday, April 3
Theme: Portrait
Artists: Several artists self-portraits.
Materials: Sketch book, ink pens, glue, copies of several artists heads cut-outs from self-portraits
We will divide a sketch book page into fours and picking the head of four artists finish the portrait image by using ink pens for line drawing patterns for
hair and hats and clothing.
Week 5 Tuesday, April 8, Wednesday, April 9, Thursday, April 10
Theme: Self portrait
Artist: Hannah Hoch, Eileen Agar, Kurt Schwitters
Materials: Sketch book, collage materials, scissors, Mod Podge Matte, watercolor and ink/acrylic pens.
Each student will work from a black and white self-portrait taken in the studio. We will look at how the portrait can be manipulated and the
background developed into supporting colors. This may take two classes to finish.
Week 6 Tuesday, April 15, Wednesday, April 16, Thursday, April 17
Theme: Contrast
Artist: George de la Tour: "The Penitent Magdalen", Caravaggio
Materials: Sketch book, 9"x12', dark blue pastel paper, oil pastels. Candle.
We will start with two color gradients on strips of dark blue pastel paper using oil pastels: 1. gradient of warm color: white to yellow, to orange to red to
red purple. 2. gradient of cool colors: light yellow, pale green to dark green to blue purple to blue. Then we will lightly sketch the candle on an 8"x11"
sheet of dark blue pastel paper and then add the gradations of color to make the candlelight shine.
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Week 7 Tuesday, April 22, Wednesday, April 23, Thursday, April 24
Theme: Perspective
Artist: Brunelleschi
Materials: Sketch book, pencils, rulers
We will make a drawing of a city after having studied Brunelleschi's use of linear perspective
Week 8 Tuesday, April 29, Wednesday, April 30, Thursday, May 1
Theme: Dream-scapes
Artist: Henri Rousseau, Paul Klee, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, Odilon Redon
Materials: Sketch book, 9"x12' black paper, white charcoal pencils and gouache paints
-Dream as a space between the visible and invisible-. As we can see in the art of surrealist artists illogical images can come from dreams and the
subconsciousness. We will explore these images drawing and painting with white charcoal painting on black paper and add gouache paint.
Week 9 Tuesday, May 6, Wednesday, May 7, Thursday, May 8
Theme: Still Life
Artist: Chardin
Materials: Sketch book, pencils and black and white charcoal on toned ground
We will draw a still life looking at reflections in glass.
Week 10 Tuesday, May13, Wednesday, May 14, Thursday, May 15
Theme: Color, line, shape, and spatial dynamics
Artist: Kandinsky
Materials: Sketchbook
Using straight and curved lines with repetition we will make a triptych of abstract pictures expressing music.
The fall art classes start the 2nd week of September.
