Travel Sketching with Nina Weiss

Saturday, August 15
1 pm – 4 pm

You love to draw, and you love to travel. How best to combine the two?  Set in the beautiful forested grounds of Ryerson Woods, this class will teach you to maximize your drawing experience drawing the landscapes of your travels. Emphasis includes: how to extract your vision from the landscape using elements of composition; how to render basic forms of the landscape; how expressive line and gesture are used to capture the landscape; and how color can be used as an exciting addition to your drawing. Using water-based pens and colored pencils, students will begin their own travel sketchbooks using inspirational local landscapes. Nina Weiss is a nationally recognized artist who has been painting and drawing the landscape for over 25 years (ninaweiss.com). Water-soluble Sketch pens will be available for purchase from Nina. 

Brushwood.  $70. To register, call North Shore Art League at 847.446.2870.

Shoot side-by-side with legendary National Geographic photographer and author of the new book RARE: Portraits of America's Endangered Species  Joel Sartore in an intensive photography workshop at Ryerson Woods. An engaging day of lectures, critiques and hands-on outdoor field assignments, this workshop is about tackling the “big three” found in all successful nature photographs: good light, deliberate background and compelling story. Sartore will cover fields tips, what kind of gear to bring, special digital considerations in outdoor light, the subtle use of flash, how to travel so you and your equipment stay intact and how to use your photographs for conservation. Photographers of all skill levels will learn how to use just about any camera to take a great picture.  Using the natural vibrancy of Ryerson Woods in autumn as a backdrop, participants will practice “seeing well” and expanding their photographic technique.  Lunch included.  

Brushwood.  $250 ($225 FRW members).