Beginning Drawing with Janet Mego April 2023

Join Janet Mego April 22-23, 2023 to learn the basics of drawing. This class will explore line, shape, value, texture, and perspective. Janet will show students different approaches to using pencil and paper, including new ways to hold a pencil or a piece of charcoal for different effects. Experience the satisfaction that comes with bringing a still life, a face, or a landscape to life in black and white. Students will need to supply their own supplies. This class is for students 18+. Needed Supplies: -Several pencils of varying hard-to-soft lead -A good gum or kneaded eraser -Artist-quality drawing paper, like a fine-tooth Strathmore sketch pad or quality paper, 11X14 or preferred size. Optional: some hard-pressed charcoal drawing sticks. This class has a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 12. If the class does not meet the minimum, participants will be refunded. Tickets are non-refundable once the registration deadline ends. Please email Mary Bell, Program Manager, at mbell@ with any questions.  Kentuck workshops are non-refundable after the registration closes. If you would like to cancel before the deadline passes, please email mbell@ or call 205-758-1257. If the class does not meet the minimum by the registration deadline and the workshop is cancelled, all participants will be refunded their registration fees. About Janet Mego: I have been compelled to draw, paint, and sculpt since I was six years old. From the first grade upward, after earning first place in a juried show in the first grade, and later receiving recognition for my early artistic endeavors in Baltimore, Maryland, I then earned a BFA in Art at the University of Alabama. Much of what I do has been influence by the fine art of “learning to see”, implemented masterfully by those professors essential in taking me far beyond the face value of that degree. I’m graced in this regard by having studied with Professors Alvin Sella, Richard Zoellner, and Arthur Oakes. After graduation, I began working with watercolor portraiture and continued to exhibit pieces in galleries and patron’s homes in several counties throughout Alabama. Placing in juried shows and exhibitions concomitant with my tenure as Artist in Residence for the Sumter County Fine Arts Council in the 1980s, and as adjunct art instructor for Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama), I continued to explore the intricacies of the human face and its expression of emotion. Concomitantly, I felt a spiritual awareness of the beauty of nature creep from my soul into the watercolors that had become my favorite medium. Later, I rediscovered and applied the acrylic paints I’d used in college to canvas and to a more abstracted interpretation of trees, of water, of sky, and of terrain. This workshop is sponsored in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.