Craft Series: Drawing from Life

Learn the basics of drawing from life at the Haliburton Forest Wolf Centre. This experience includes free Wolf Centre admission, instruction on loose, gestural drawing from live wolves as well as sustained life drawing where we take time to study detail, structure and anatomy from specimens in the museum. Snacks and beverages will be provided to fuel your sketching.

Come to the Haliburton Forest Wolf Centre to enjoy a casual evening of drawing. This program gives you a chance to learn the basics of drawing, with a unique opportunity to draw live wolves from observation. The session will start in our main observation area where you will have a chance to observe and learn about our wolf pack. Then, we will provide you with drawing materials and give a brief demonstration of basic concepts like shape, form and line. You will have an opportunity to use those principles in a sketching exercise. The second part of the evening will take place in the main gallery, where you will do a sustained drawing exercise of a chosen subject or subjects from the Wolf Centre gallery and develop your skills with a focus on structure, anatomy and finer details all with the feedback and guidance of your instructor. Your instructor is Tamara Holman, an artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, at OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) where she majored in Drawing, Painting, and Classical Animation.