CHARITY BAKER Charity Baker is a painter based in New York City. Formally trained in architecture she received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute. In 2016, she enrolled at the New York Studio School for a Drawing Marathon with Graham Nickson and stayed through her MFA graduating in 2019. Charity makes rich and …
All of us leave a legacy. It’s the result of what we say, what we do, the art we make. We leave our fingerprints on this world, and there’s a bit of soul left in them. Today I’d like to share the work of one of our students, and delve a bit not just into …
Too busy to take a class? Not anymore!
Drawing is a great way to focus and relax the mind. While many art classes take space and time to get set up, create, then clean up, it only takes a few minutes to grab a pencil and draw, and you can do it anywhere!
We’ve modified our beginning drawing course to give you the basics of line, form, tone, proportion, composition, gesture, movement, and expression.
- Teacher: Charity Baker
- Class Length: 6 Weeks
- Class Days: Wednesdays, beginning February 1
- Time: 6:00-7:30 pm PST
Suggested Materials:
Bring what you have. The list below is suggested, but not necessary. Pencil and paper will always be fabulous.
- Soft Willow Charcoal
- Pencils: HB and 6B or 8B
- Charcoal pencil: 6B or 8B / soft or super soft
- Strathmore 300 series drawing pad (yellow pad with top spiral bind, product code 340-318). At the school studio we use 18×24″ but home studios can be a bit less spacious. Get the largest size your work station will accommodate. 14×17″ is great.
- Newsprint. Get the largest size your work station will accommodate.
- Drawing board may be helpful to hold paper at an angle while you sit at a desk
- White vinyl/plastic eraser
- Chamois cloth- small
- Pencil sharpener
Optional:
- Conte stick – brown or black
- Sketchbook (optional)
- Large kneaded eraser (optional)
- Pens
In this class we will view current museum and gallery exhibits around NYC and abroad together through Zoom, and then create drawings to explore key issues of how a drawing becomes successful, in some cases to last through the test of time.
- Teacher: Charity Baker
- Class Length: 8 Weeks
- Class Days: Fridays, beginning February 3
- Time: 10:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Materials List
- Both large and small size paper, 6×9”/9×12” and 18×24”/22×30”
- Pencils: range 2H-6B
- Charcoal: vine and compressed
- Eraser: I recommend- Staedtler eraser
- Pencil sharpener
- Rag to dust down charcoal (chamois cloth)
- Black and White Acrylic, a few cheap ‘round’ brushes med/large bristles
- Drawing Board
THIS IS AN ONLINE CLASS. We use the Zoom platform for online classes. Login codes are sent prior to the first class only. Some email systems such as Hotmail block our emails to you. Please check your junk folders, and if you have have not received your class info, please contact us (contact@seattleartistleague.com) 15-30 minutes before your class begins so we can reply with the login codes. We will get you into your class.
Welcome to Day 2 of the 30SAL Challenge! To learn more about the 30SAL Challenge, click here. Today’s 30SAL Challenge is a creative idea from Seattle Artist League instructor Charity Baker. First, tone a piece of paper as dark as you can with soft willow charcoal. You might find that paper with some tooth or …
Here’s an idea for something to draw: throw your jacket on a chair. Now you have a still life, a portrait, and a landscape. *Quoted from Charity Baker’s “Museum Crawl” class featuring Cezanne’s show of drawings in NY
The League has two different Friday portrait classes this summer. Which one would you rather be in? Would you rather…. Combine drawings from live models with studies from art history? …or study a variety of ages, expressions, and faces? Would you rather…. Add meaningful elements from imagination and intuition? Or measure and exaggerate to pull …
Yesterday I posted drawings by Stanley Lewis. Lewis was one of the influences listed by Charity Baker at the New York Studio School. Looking through Lewis’ art and writing, I found an interview on Painting Perceptions that talked about his methods, and his influences: “[Painting from perception] often feels like a horribly impossible thing to …
I was interested in learning how to better see and describe what makes Charity Baker’s drawings and paintings so captivating, and she gave me a list of her teachers from the New York Studio School. Goldmine! I posted drawings by her teacher Barbara Grossman yesterday. Today I found drawings by Stanley Lewis. Although the two …