Introductory Drawing with David Dickinson

David, a retired art instructor, offers a lecture style drawing course to teach the basics: linear perspective, composition, and tone.

About this Event

If you have been craving an in-depth class to learn drawing basics, this is the class for YOU! Students will learn via lecture, demonstrations, and homework.

Join accomplished artist and instructor, David Dickinson, at The Local Art Gallery Thursday mornings this fall for an Introductory Drawing Class. This class will meet four times on Thursday mornings: 9/11, 9/18, 9/25, 10/2 from 10:30am-12pm. (10/9 reserved as instructor make up day, if needed.)

Transform a two-dimensional existence into something with depth. This introductory drawing course will cover problem solving with linear perspective and then move on to composition, sighting, analytical line drawing of the still life using line weight and finally, tonal rendering. The goal is to become visually literate, develop a set of skills and allow the pencil to be an extension of the brain. After a 40 year career in teaching, David believes everyone can be taught to draw. The rest is up to you … along with desire, diligence and dedication.

Pablo Picasso once said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

Deadline to signup: September 1, 2025. Limited seating.

$100, includes supplies. Supply kit includes pencil, charcoal, graphite, kneaded eraser kit, a hand sharpener, a transparent 18” ruler, and sketching / rendering papers approx. 18x24. Ages: 14+

Artist Bio:

David A. Dickinson

Artist, Illustrator, Instructor

Education: Paier College, SMFA, Tufts University

40 years in education: Stoneleigh Burnham School and Deerfield Academy - (Developed visual arts curriculum in drawing and painting, broadened the Advanced Placement program, portfolios for college admission and served as Chair of Fine Arts at both schools.)

Represented by the Dunes Studio Gallery, Prince Edward Island, Canada 1991- 2007, 2023, 2025 (selling internationally).

1980's exhibited at a variety of galleries, including the Cambridge Art Assn. and the Copley Society, Boston

Deerfield Academy commissioned illustrations and design for 1990 celebration of the arts, 200th celebration landscapes 2002 and 2006 and portraiture 2021.

National Awards: R.I.S.D. Outstanding Teacher award 1985 (40 teachers nationally), 7 National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts teaching awards 1997-2008

"Lifetime of Influence" NFAA award 2008 (20 teachers nationally)

Deerfield Academy teaching awards: John J. Louis Chair in the Humanities 1995, John S. Hilson Chair in the Fine Arts 1996-2016, Greer Chair Outstanding Teacher at Deerfield Academy 2009

Illustration/Design awards: Boston Art Directors Club scholarship award

Art Directors Club of NYC award for Atlantic Magazine illustrations for "Scholarship vs. Culture" by Jacques Barzun 1985

Drawing award - Springfield Museum of Fine Arts 1987

Excellence award in drawing 2005 - PEI, Canada

Inducted Sept. 2024 into the Copley Society of Art – oldest art association in U.S. 1879

Represented currently by Ellen’s Creek Gallery, Charlottetown and Dunes Studio Gallery, Brackley Beach Prince Edward Island, Canada

My work is collected in Canada and U.S.

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