Drawing The Huntington | Wednesday Class
Wed., Jan. 8, 2025, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Wednesdays, Jan. 8–Feb. 19 | Public: $375, Members: $350
Education and Visitor Center, Roger’s Classroom, and various garden locations
Join artist and author Richard Scott as he leads six classes in the techniques of drawing. Using The Huntington’s art, architecture, and gardens in each lesson, participants will improve their observation and drawing skills and enrich their visual experience. These classes are perfect for beginners, advanced artists, and every level in between.
This class is also being offered on Saturdays, Jan. 11–March 8
Space is limited. Both sessions are identical, so please choose one.
Session 1: How to See & Think Like an Artist | Classroom
In the first session, students learn how to transform visual perception and confidently draw anything with excellent accuracy. A variety of interesting and fun subjects are drawn using this method. The first session takes place in the classroom.
Session 2: A Most Interesting Illusion | Japanese Garden
Students learn an effective approach to draw three-dimensional subjects in their sketchbooks. Shape and form are explored and a variety of drawing techniques demonstrated. This session begins in the classroom and concludes drawing various elements in the gardens.
Session 3: Drawing from Both Sides of the Brain | Huntington Art Gallery
Students learn how to use both hemispheres of the brain to simplify and make sense of complex subject matters and draw them with greater skill. The session begins in the classroom and concludes in the Huntington Art Gallery.
Session 4: Conducting with a Pencil | Huntington Art Gallery, South Terrace
Students learn how to think differently when drawing to better capture the beautiful nuances in a subject matter. This session begins in the classroom and concludes drawing various elements in the gardens.
Session 5: The Holy Grail of Drawing | Library Exhibition Hall
Students learn a better way to understand and draw linear perspective. With insights from Renaissance artists through Impressionism to modernism, students apply a variety of ideas to improve their understanding and skill at drawing in perspective. This session begins in the classroom and concludes drawing the architecture of The Huntington.
Session 6: The Poetry of Drawing | Desert Garden and lawn area south of the Rose Garden
Students learn how to simplify, emphasize, and edit a subject matter to produce drawings with greater personal meaning. This class begins in the classroom and concludes drawing various elements in the gardens.
Most of the supplies and materials below can be purchased at a 10% discount from Blue Rooster Art Supplies in Pasadena.
- Pencil – Blackwing Natural Pencil
- Sharpener – Kum Automatic Long Point (this is a good, inexpensive choice for a pocket-sized sharpener with a casing to prevent litter)
- Kneaded eraser – Faber-Castell or General’s brand
- Retractable eraser – Tombow Mono Zero Eraser with round tip
- Rechargeable electric eraser – Afmat Rechargeable Electric Eraser
- Drawing pad – Strathmore 400 Series Recycled Drawing Pad / 130 g/m2 (80 lb.) / 24 sheets in 9" x 12" size
For questions, please contact Joy Yamahata or call 626-405-3457.
About the Instructor
Richard E. Scott is a painter, teacher, and writer. Self-taught in drawing and watercolor, he paints outdoors and in the studio. His preferred subjects are architecture, gardens, still life, and crafts. His artworks have been published in various art and design magazines, periodicals, and books.
He teaches drawing and painting at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California; The Huntington in San Marino, California; and in art workshops throughout the United States and Europe. For 20 years he has taught at numerous universities, including California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; UCLA; ArtCenter College of Design; California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He has written for various art and design magazines, and in 2013 he published a compendium on drawing, Sketching from Square One … to Trafalgar Square.