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Drawing Workshops with Michael Mitchell
Join local artist, Michael Mitchell, for a series of three workshops focused on drawing.
The sessions will take place on Saturday mornings at the Blue Sage from 9am-12pm, as follows:
Still Life Drawing - Saturday, August 18 9:00am-12:00pm.
Figure Drawing - Saturday, August 25 9:00am-12:00pm
Portrait Drawing - Saturday, September 8 9:00am-12:00pm
Register by Saturday, August 11 and receive a $20 per session discount. Each session costs $90, early registration is $70 per session. Registration deadline is Wednesday, August 15.
Materials List
Suggested but not limited to or any dry media, your choice of materials:
1 9x12 Strathmore Sketchbook 50 sheets
1 18x24 Newsprint pad (smooth, 50 sheets) (24x36 optional)
1 18x24 Strathmore 400 series 80lbs drawing paper (white or medium value color, 24 sheets)
1 18x24 Drawing board (24x36 optional)
2 boxes Vine charcoal (Coates, 12 sticks, 7-9mm, soft)
1 Kneaded eraser
1 Chamois
1 Paper wrapped pencil eraser (Sanford)
5 Paper wrapped Charcoal pencil (Prang or Peel & Sketch, soft)
1 White Conte pencil (Conte' a Paris, soft)
1 Carbon sketch pencil (General's #595, soft)
1 #5 Sumi Brush (Windsor Newton)
About Michael Mitchell
Michael G. Mitchell was first exposed to the aesthetics of the human body at the age of 17 in his father's art studio. Charles R. Mitchell is an accomplished and award winning figurative and portrait sculptuor, using both stone and terra cotta, whose work stands in the sculpture gardens of Akron Art Museum. The drawing of the body intrigued him enough to attend life-drawing classes while pursuing a degree in Art HIstory from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus. It was in this academic environment, surrounded by medical illustrators, where his love of the figure began to take shape. After graduation, he studied anatomy, sculpture, watercolor, and oil painting at the Center for Creative Studies (CCS), in downtown Detroit. Although he was only able to attend for one year, his quest for working in representational figurative art had been thoroughly ignited and the creative journey had begun.
Though not the 'typical path" you might expect from a young evolving artist, Michael made a living as a technical illustrator in the automobile industry while studying life drawing at night from well known local art shcools, Cranbrook School of Art and Birmingham-Bloomfield Art School (BBA) where he received the technical training he needed by well known artist, Russell Keeter. His career path led him from illustration into engineering, then technical sales and management at a multi-national Japanese corporation where he became President and CEO in 2002. In October of 2007, he decided to resign and move his family to the Grand Junction area and pursue his first love, the human form.
Within a year, Michael had built up a portfolio and landed a position at Colorado Mesa University (CMU) teaching foundation, advanced, and figure drawing. It was at CMU where he attended a one-day intense figurative workshop with Daniel Sprick who inspried him to continue working. Using other great American artists as his models, Michael continues to teach and learn from others.
Among the giants who inspire him are John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Joaquin Sorollay Bastida, and contemporary artists such as Daniel Sprick, Daniel Greene, Burton Silverton, Richard McDonald, Zhaoming Wu and David A. Leffel. His portfolio of commissions, not galleries, is a focus to build his technical and aesthetic skills while he searches for the universal spirit in human forms.
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LocationBlue Sage Center for the Arts (View)
226-228 Grand Ave.
Paonia, CO 81428
United States
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