Drawing through Observation with Kathryn Smith

Using a variety of media (pencil, conte crayon, graphite sticks, marker) students will explore objects and their relationship to each other and their surroundings. Students will build technical skills and utilize a variety of approaches throughout the course to a final composition encompassing skills introduced in the course.
Beginning and intermediate levels are welcome. Please bring one favorite object to the first class.

Artist and educator Kathryn Smith, known primarily for her work in white-line printmaking, has also taught drawing classes to students at the college level. With a BA in Fine Arts from University of Maryland, as well as further studies at Maryland Institute of Art, Colorado State University, University of Colorado and graduate studies at University of Northern Colorado, Smith co-founded the Provincetown Institute of Art, a collaboration between PAAM and Cape Cod Community College, and served as administrator of the program for several years, as well as instructing drawing and printmaking courses there from 1999-2002, 2005 and 2008. Drawing courses included beginning through advanced studies as well as life drawing. Smith s work has been in many national and international exhibitions and museum shows and is included in private, corporate and museum collections worldwide.

One student wrote, I was most impressed with the ability of Kathi to relay a large, intense body of knowledge and skill while making it easy to take in."