You pick up a pencil or paintbrush to be creative, to express yourself.
But ... how do you do that? Where do you start?
Are you just ... 'not creative' if you don't know what you want to express, or how to express it?
Not at all! It's simply this:
Your creativity needs to be cultivated and nurtured.
In this workshop, we’ll cover:
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How to make drawings (or artworks) that are unique to us
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What it means to be creative in drawing
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8 ways to be creative within realistic drawing specifically
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3 types of drawing to explore, aside from realistic/representational
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the 4 phases of the creative process, and how to get started with the first phase
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2 exercises for discovering your unique creative voice, what you want to make, and who you are (or want to be) as an artist
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You'll also discover so many new artists and inspiring artworks!
One of these exercises we’ll do together right in the workshop. You can use this exercise to initially unearth your unique creative voice, and/or whenever you start new artwork. (This is the exact process that I use.)
The second exercise is one that you can explore on your own for the rest of your creative career. I do this on an ongoing basis, and it’s one of the main ways that I stay inspired and evolving as an artist.
*Though this lecture is mainly geared towards drawing, it will absolutely relate to painting, too.
Student comments about this lecture:
“This is so much more than I hoped it would be. So often you get so much technical information, and then some very superficial input on creativity that's almost meme quality. But you're giving me a dialogue that I can internalize, look at my art and what I'm creating, at what other people are creating, and find myself in it all. I wasn't expecting that. I didn't realize that's what I was looking for. I knew I wanted to study creativity and become inspired, but I didn't realize how excited I would get by it.”
-Sandra W.
“You're opening up different neural pathways and different ways of thinking for me. It's way more than I thought, it's amazing.”
-Christine C.
*Note: this workshop is included in the Creative Drawing Studio!
Who You'll Learn From:
Hi there! I'm Marina.
I'm a professional visual artist, arts educator, former Tenure-Track college professor of visual arts, and Founder (or 'Drawing Source'ress') of TheDrawingSource.com
In my creative practice these days, I create 'drawing installations': large-scale drawings that transform a space, such as the one below. (Yes, entirely hand-drawn using charcoal on white paper!)
About Marina
Marina Fridman (BFA, MFA) is a visual artist, arts educator, and author (or Drawing Source'ress!) of The Drawing Source.
As an educator of visual arts, Marina held a Tenure-Track Instructor position at Northwestern Polytechnic in Alberta, Canada before leaving to focus on The Drawing Source. She immensely enjoys distilling complex drawing concepts into steps that are easy to understand and put into practice, and considers herself successful when her students increase both their skills and their enjoyment of the drawing process.
Marina holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture and Dimensional Studies from Alfred University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
She is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, an Edmonton Arts Council Grant in 2021, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant in 2020, the Manifest ONE Prize in 2019, and an Honorable Mention in the International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2018.
