Animal Drawing Classes at AMNH

An eight-week animal drawing course is being offered by New York's American Museum of Natural History, utilizing its magnificent dioramas and dinosaur skeletons.

New York's American Museum of Natural History is offering an intensive animal drawing course. Taught by Stephen C. Quinn, the AMNH's Senior Project Manager in the Department of Exhibitions and author of Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History, the eight weekly sessions run from March 3 to April 24, 2008, 7:00-9:00 PM. Students study charcoal drawing techniques to sketch the animal subjects in their recreated environments and learn about the artists who produced the world-famous dioramas. Lessons are devoted to skeletal and muscular systems, locomotion, coloration and other topics.

The course fee is $160.00 and does not include the cost of materials (a white drawing paper pad at least 11" x 14" in size), drawing pencils, kneaded eraser, pencil sharpener, gray charcoal paper pad, stick charcoal of soft, medium and hard grades and a white charcoal pencil). The recommended text is Animal Drawing by Charles R. Knight.

To register, call (212) 769-5200 or visit www.amnh.org.