Guided Introduction to Life Drawing
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Tuesday, Dec 8, 2026 6pm - 9pm
Location
Firehouse Art Center
667 4th Ave
Details
Gain the skills and confidence to attend uninstructed life drawing drop-in sessions!
In this 3-hour class, students will learn basic drawing skills and apply them to a live, instructed life drawing session. We will review format, etiquette, and what to expect during life drawing sessions so you can feel confident walking into an uninstructed life drawing session!
Meet your instructor:
Erin Lucey's artistic practice centers around interdisciplinary articulations of the everyday and earthly. She creates abstract and representational compositions utilizing painting, drawing, a d sculptural practices. Her creative process relies heavily on repetition, process, and close observation and contemplation.
Erin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University, a highly esteemed art school in Canada. She won the Jurors Choice Award in the 2025 Art of the State exhibition at the Arvada Center in her home state of Colorado, where she is a professor at the Community College of Denver.
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The first hour of this class will be a basic introduction to drawing techniques frequently utilized in life drawing sessions — gestural, contour, crosshatching, blending, sighting, and blocking in. Students will learn and practice these skills utilizing non-living compositions.
During this time we will also review what to expect during a life drawing session — set up, the intention of and length of poses, etiquette around the model, etc.
The model will join us for the second two hours of class where we will follow the standard pose and drawing length followed at Firehouse for their Monday evening life drawing sessions. This part of class will be guided with 1:1 and class-wide feedback and assistance during the live poses.
You will leave this class with the basic skills and confidence to attend an unguided life drawing drop-in (like the ones Firehouse offers on Monday nights!).
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Students will need to bring their own drawing surface, preferably large drawing pad, but any paper is great. If you have drawing media you’d like to use please bring it! The instructor will have charcoal and graphite to share.
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If 6 students aren’t registered three days prior to class date, class will be cancelled.
Total novice — beginner to drawing/life drawing
Class fee: $47
12/8- 6pm-9pm
No refunds or transfers within 48 hours of start of class.
