Art Classes Fall 2025
Fall Term: 10 classes: Tuesday, September 9 to November 11; or Wednesday, September 10 to November 12; or Thursday, September 11 to
November 13, 2025.
Inclement weather: If the Beaverton School District is closed due to inclement weather there will be no art class
To sign up for class please email Ingrid at ingridgharper@gmail.com, or leave a text at 503-803-0199
Price $200 for the term or $25 per class. Cash, check or Zelle payable to Ingrid Harper at the beginning of class.
Supply list: To every class, please bring a spiral bound sketchbook, approximately 9x12 inches. All other materials will be provided in class.
Class time: Classes meet once a week. Please pick one class time from the following:
Wednesday: 6:30-8:00pm; adults
Tuesday: 4:30-6:30 or Thursday: 4:45-6:15pm; ages 7 through 17
NOTE: If you cannot come to your regular class time you are welcome to come for a make-up class within the same week. Please let me know
beforehand which day you will be coming.
FALL Curriculum
REMEMBER TO BRING A SKETCHBOOK TO EACH CLASS. ALL OTHER MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED
Week 1 Tuesday, September 9, or Wednesday, September 10, or Thursday, September 11
Theme: VALUE (LIGHT & DARK)
Artist: Pieter Claesz 1597-1661
Materials: Sketchbook, white charcoal pencil, dark charcoal paper, kneaded eraser, blender
Using white charcoal pencils on dark charcoal paper we will draw a glass looking first for oval shapes and symmetry and then slowly develop the
highlights and three-D shape. The kneaded eraser and blender are used to make the drawing of the glass more realistic.
Week 2 Tuesday, September 16, Wednesday, September 17, or Thursday September 18
Theme: Foreground and ground/ POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE
Artists: Piet Mondrian and Bridget Riley
Materials: Sketch book, pencil, ink pens and acrylic markers
We will make a diptych (a two-part image) using mirrored images of geometric shapes and patterns with changing spaces. Next, we will make a triptych
(a three-part image) of organic shapes using color. This may be taking two class periods.
Week 3 Tuesday, September 23, Wednesday, September 24, Thursday, September 25
Theme: EYES
Arist: Kari Upson 1970-2021, Odilon Redon 1840-1916 and M.C. Esher
Materials: Sketch book, pencils: HB, 2B,4B, kneaded erasers and blenders.
We will study the shape of eyes both of humans and animals. Building on the lesson on how to draw a glass we will use the same technique to make the
eye three-dimensional. The final drawing may become a surrealistic creature with a realistic eye(s).
Week 4 Tuesday, September 30, Wednesday October 1, and Thursday October 2
Theme: SELFPORTRAIT and proportions
Artists: Several artist's self-portraits.
Materials: Sketch book, pencils
We will divide a sketch book page into fours and draw four self-portraits age 2,6,15 and 25, studying how the proportions change with each age.
We have two class periods to complete the four drawings
Week 5 Tuesday, October 7, Wednesday October 8, and Thursday October 9
Theme: SELF-PORTRAIT and proportions
We will continue working with self-portraits at different ages and develop backgrounds for each of the four drawings.
Week 6 Tuesday, October 14, Wednesday October 15, and Thursday October 16
Theme: PASTEL PORTRAIT
Artist: Anna Anker 1859-1935
Materials: Sketch book, pencil, pastel paper and pastels.
We will start by drawing portraits of each other taking turns to pose, then we will begin a self-portrait first developing two or three pencil sketches and
then start a pastel portrait.
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Week 7 Tuesday, October 21, Wednesday October 22, and Thursday October 23
Theme: PASTEL PORTRAIT
Artist: Anna Anker
Materials: Sketch book, pastel paper and pastels.
We will continue working on the self-portrait using pastels.
Week 8 Tuesday, October 28, Wednesday, October 29, Thursday, October 30
Theme: DREAMSCAPE
Artist: Henri Rousseau, Odilon Redon, Paul Klee
Materials: Sketch book, 9"x12' toned paper, white charcoal pencils and gouache paints
This class is about depicting a dream as a space between the visible and the invisible. As we can see in the art of surrealist artists illogical images can
come from dreams and the subconsciousness. We will explore these images drawing and painting with white charcoal on black paper and add
gouache paint.
Week 9 Tuesday, November 4, Wednesday, November 5, Thursday, November 6
Theme: WATERLILLIES
Artist: Monet
Materials: Sketch book, pencils and acrylic paint
We will draw and paint waterlilies inspired by Monet's painting at the Portland Art Museum.
Week 10 Tuesday, November 11, Wednesday, November 12, Thursday, November 13
Theme: Color, line, shape, and SPATIAL DYNAMICS
Artist: Jade Fadojutimi b.1993
Materials: Sketchbook, pencils, gouache, charcoal, erasers, blenders, acrylic pens
We will start by using charcoal looking at plants. Using erasers, we will make room for acrylic markers and gouache paint to develop a composition of
color harmony.
The winter art classes start the first week of December.
Painting by Paul Klee