Drawing Animals from the Collections | Watercolor Pencils: Drawing a Lion

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Drawing Animals from the Collections | Watercolor Pencils: Drawing a Lion

Thursday, February 2, 2023 @ 8:00 pm

The Art Museum partners with the Arts Council of Princeton to provide free virtual drawing classes. Weekly classes are taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo over Zoom. With an emphasis on drawing with watercolor pencil on paper, each week’s lesson in this series will be inspired by an artwork depicting an animal in the Museum’s collections.   

This live art-making class is inspired by this ceramic “fu dog” or guardian lion sculpture, created by a Chinese artist in the twentieth century. In this session, we will draw this sculpture and explore how to draw a lion as depicted in this work.

Watch recorded lesson.

Previous art-making classes and optional materials lists can be found here

Free registration via Zoom here. (When prompted, click to sign in as “attendee.”)

This event will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar by clicking the “CC” icon. To access Spanish-language captioning, open Streamtext, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning.

Para acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar "español" o el idioma de su elección.

LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support for this program has been provided by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation.  

Bright yellow sculpture of seated lion, with dog-like ears, round eyes, with one paw on a ball
Chinese, Fu dog, 20th century. Gift of Mr. Hugh Trumbull Adams, Class of 1935. Photo: Molly Gibbons