Level: Adults and teens
Oct 4 - Oct 18, 2023
Wednesdays
6-7:30pm
3 weeks
Instructor: Lisa Thoren
Instructor's website
Fee: $115 (incl all supplies)
Class Description:
Sketchbook journaling is a wonderful way to improve your drawing skills while capturing your thoughts and memories. It’s also an artform that allows you to create freely and creatively without boundaries. As an artist and art teacher, Lisa Thorén is never without her sketchbook. It’s a habit she’s kept since her college days in Italy.
In this class Lisa will teach students how to capture special places and people’s gestures with quick, small drawings and compositions that will equate to creative storytelling. Techniques using pastel, collage, watercolors and other inspirations will make every page come alive. All supplies will be provided for this class including: a sketch book, pencils, pens, and beyond.
Supply List – Sketchbook and all supplies will be provided by RAC.
About the Instructor:
Lisa Thorén is an award-winning mixed-media artist. She began her career studying printmaking in Florence, Italy, and earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design. Lisa was an art director at Travel + Leisure Magazine, a creative director in advertising, and board president of the Darien Arts Center in Darien, Connecticut.
Lisa was accepted into the Silvermine Guild after being juried into the 65th Annual Art of the Northeast Show at Silvermine Arts Center in 2015. She has participated in the Parsons School of Design alumni shows and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Fabir Birren Color Award.
Lisa has exhibited as a solo artist in galleries in Connecticut. Her art hangs in the permanent collections of the Greenwich Library, the Darien Nature Center, and the Stanford University Medical Center in California.
Lisa Thorén’s work has been featured in Darien/New Canaan Magazine, Brooks Brothers stores, and historical societies in Greenwich and Darien.
She resides in Darien, CT with her husband Peter.