This four-week course meets
monday, march 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd
from 6:oopm - 8:00pm
Drawing from Life is an open level foundational course on charcoal drawing. The class will cover key principles to create a successful drawing by supporting the artists with practice in value, texture, composition and form from a staged still-life. A still-life is a composed arrangement of inanimate objects and colorful fabrics on pedestals. They create strong aesthetics in light and color. Using charcoal, the class will learn several techniques including straight-line, reductive, and contour drawing. Artists will complete at least three large drawings with numerous sketches and studies.
Ages 16 & up
** SUPPLIES INCLUDED **
Feel free to email us with any questions at maggy@sttammany.art.
Location: The Art House at 320 N Columbia St in Downtown Covington
About Amber
Amber Hart is a first-generation American born citizen from a Belizean family that immigrated to New Orleans in 1976. She grew up in rural landscapes as she moved back and forth over state lines throughout her childhood. The adverse lifestyle shaped behavioral tendencies such as seeking out constants in public and private spaces as a source of grounding. Those constants became objects of comfort being charged by psychological tension in her paintings. Hart credits the act of painting as a catharsis by applying her personal constants, plurality psychology and domestic livestock, to act as placeholders for the human psyche in malleable realities. It is a metaphor for the consciousness of a present state, which is for her the act of ruminating. The work has been shown nationally in Baton Rouge Gallery, Ogden Museum of Art, and Southern Mississippi Museum of Art and LeMieux Gallery. Hart was featured in Juxtapoz magazine in 2025 after being awarded 'Best in Show' by Evan Pricco at Baton Rouge's Gallery Annual Surreal Salon exhibition. She lives and works in Covington, Louisiana.