Local Lines: A Sketchbook Project

This month’s session will focus on drawing portraits, and will be led by local artist Laurie Renee Moore. Come ready to share a sketch (sketches should be no larger than 9” x 12”) of your own, created in response to this prompt:

Make your best effort to capture the likeness of your own face, with a twist!

Print a photo of yourself, but turn it upside down when you use it as your reference photo. So often we draw what we expect to see, instead of drawing what we actually see (more on that later). This simple trick can help you see and replicate abstract forms so that you end up drawing the eye/nose instead of trying to draw a generic eye or a nose.

Faces are a challenge, so start with the most familiar face on the planet to you… yours! Don’t be shy about wherever you are in your artistic growth. We all have to start somewhere, so just give it your best effort. I am confident you will pick up something that will make your next effort even better.

During the program, we’ll share sketches, discuss artistic choices and techniques, find inspiration in each other’s and Osborne’s work, and take on a new sketching challenge inspired by this month’s theme. Local Lines is open to artists aged 15 and up.

Anyone

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
100 Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
Notre Dame
Indiana
46556-0368
US

• Has assistive hearing loop
• Has wheelchair-accessible car park
• Has wheelchair-accessible entrance
• Has wheelchair-accessible toilet
• Has gender-neutral toilets