Class and Workshop Listings - Instruction by Lacey Lewis

Location: Red Door Studios in The Hobbs Building
1427 West Ninth Street, Suite 302, Kansas City, MO 64101

Workshop: Drawing the Head in Charcoal
Sunday, January 19, 2014, 10am - 4pm
$125/student, materials included
***This class is currently full. Please contact Lacey to be added to a waiting list.

Draw the head in charcoal from life in this 6 hour workshop with Lacey Lewis. She will demonstrate step-by-step how to block in shapes, get accurate proportions and a likeness, achieve solid form and a pleasing overall composition.

Cost is $125, materials provided. However, please bring a drawing board if you have one! Please contact Lacey to sign up or for more information.

Drawing Class: Shape and Form from the Cast
Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm for 4 weeks beginning February 6, 2014.
$125/student

Drawing basics are the foundation to creating artwork that portrays the illusion of form and depth. This class will focus on shape, proportion, and value as studied from plaster casts in the studio using charcoal. Studying form and shape in this way will improve your life drawings and your paintings, too!

Class meets every Thursday in February from 6-8pm. Fee is $125 and class is limited to 6 students, so please contact Lacey if you'd like to join.

Atmospheric Perspective: Painting Distance

Sunday, March 2, 2014 from 12pm-4pm, $80/student.

This will be a fun, quick workshop exploring the color theory behind atmospheric perspective. This information will be helpful for painting a variety of subject matter, including landscapes, cityscapes, and even figurative or still life compositions... basically any situation where you want to create the sense that some things are near while others are far!

Students of all skill levels will benefit from this class.

Figure Drawing Class
Thursdays March 6, 13, 20, 27, April 3 and 10, 6-9pm
$300/student

In this class we will study various ways to approach drawing the figure from life in a class setting. We will start with "shorter" poses to learn to look for gesture lines and large repeating angles. Various loose measuring techniques and common landmarks will be covered before moving on to value and shading. By the end of the 6 week session, the class will be ready for long-pose drawing from the live model.

Limited Palette Figure Painting
Sunday, April 13, 10am - 4pm
$125/student

Learn how to create beautiful skin tones with only 4 tubes of paint: A yellow, a red, black, and white. You'll be impressed with the range of hues you can produce with only these pigments!

Coming in May: Beginning Drawing Classes at Tomahawk Ridge
Wednesday nights 6-8pm

Stay tuned for more information. Classes will also be listed on The City of Overland Park's Website. Beginners welcome as we study in graphite, charcoal, and later in the year watercolor.

Saturday Group Lessons for Teens
Saturdays, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Cost is $40 per student per week, paid at the first meeting of the month. Students work on their own individual projects and receive personalized instruction and guidance in a small group setting. Teen group is focused toward but not exclusively for teens who are building a portfolio for college applications. If you would like to join a group, at least one private lesson outside of class should be completed in order to determine a general course of study for the individual. Please contact Lacey to sign up or for more information.

Long Pose Open Figure Sessions

As scheduled on Saturdays, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$10 per session

Please refer to the schedule on Facebook for further information about specific dates, times, and models. We will always start with 30 minutes of shorter poses, and either follow with a 3 hour long pose, or a 1 hr pose and a 2 hr pose. The model will be sometimes nude or sometimes with props or a costume. This is the perfect place to try painting from life, work on composition, create a finished drawing, or even sculpt! Please feel free to bring any artist materials to work with that will not disturb nearby artists or leave a mess behind. Space is plentiful.

For more details about each meeting, visit Red Door Studio's Facebook Page.

Private Lessons

Lacey is currently accepting new students for private lessons at the studio. Fees are $40/hr if lessons take place at Red Door Studios, with an additional travel fee for lessons scheduled in your home. Please contact Lacey or see the Private Painting and Drawing Lessons page for more information.

Models:

We are always looking for new and talented models. We work with models experienced in working for colleges, other artists, or whose previous experiences include burlesque or other performances. We are interested in the classic nude, but we also love working with models who are inspired to take on a character and use props or costumes when the pose for us. Models of both genders, all ages and shapes are needed for open figure sessions and classes, which tend to be booked relatively far in advanced. If you are interested in modeling for the sessions and/or future classes, contact Lacey with your information, availability, and experience. It is helpful to include an image or two of yourself, not in order to reject you, but in order to help avoid scheduling similar models consecutively. Please note that Lacey finds herself to be very busy, so please do not get discouraged if your email is not answered promptly. Please feel free to continue emailing if your first inquiries are not answered; eventually you will get a response! Also, please note that Lacey does not currently have any openings for models for her own artwork. Generally, she chooses to work with models with whom she is familiar, after learning about their personalities and seeing that they will work well for a specific painting or drawing. Thank you!