My home studio is located in Lancaster city where I live with my wife and three children. Lessons are held in my third floor studio and parents are welcome to observe. The studio space can accommodate up to four students.

ABOUT THE CLASSES
I think of being able to draw from life (drawing what is front of you, not from your imagination) as the fundamental skill for the visual arts, drawing, painting and printmaking. Accordingly, I typically teach class around drawing the still life, human skeleton or copies of master works. This enables students to sharpen their perceptual skills while familiarizing themselves with various drawing media. The typical first lesson consists of drawing a simple still life composed of various boxes, jars and vases…basic stuff. This enables me to gauge the student’s abilities and to get a clearer idea of where to go next. Depending on the parent’s expectations, we can concentrate on drawing, painting or printmaking or any combination of the three.

COST
Cost for each one-hour lesson is $25.00, which includes all materials. Currently, I am running a Summer Special. If you sign up and take classes with a friend, each receives a 20% discount.

PRINTMAKING
Most people are familiar with drawing and painting, but not everyone knows exactly what I mean by printmaking. The kind of printmaking that I am equipped to teach consists of putting an image on a material (in this case linoleum ) and cutting it so that the artist can make many copies of the image in the form of prints.

BOOKS
I also offer instruction in making hand made books. This is great fun. If you are interested in learning some basic bookbinding, let me know, as it is not something that I would ordinarily teach in the course of regular lessons.

First lesson—Carey, age 12