Class Series: Drawing The Huntington

Name: Class Series: Drawing The Huntington | The Huntington
Start: Wed, Oct 14 2026
Location: The Huntington

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In this six-class course, discover or hone your drawing skills using The Huntington’s gardens and architecture as inspiration.

Participants will use The Huntington’s art, architecture, and gardens to learn drawing techniques. Over the course of six classes, artist and author Richard Scott will help students improve their observation and drawing skills, enriching their visual experience. These classes are perfect for beginners, advanced artists, and everyone in between.

Scott is an artist and author who has taught at numerous Southern California institutions and at art workshops throughout the Unites States and Europe for 25 years. He has also written for various art and design magazines, and in 2013 published a compendium on drawing titled Sketching – from Square One to Trafalgar Square.

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Session 1: How to See Like an Artist, Part 1

In the first session, students learn to transform how they see to confidently draw anything accurately. Students will use this method to draw a variety of interesting and fun subjects. The first session takes place in the classroom.

Session 2: How to See Like an Artist, Part 2

In the second session, students learn how to apply seeing like an artist to drawing three-dimensional subjects. They also explore a variety of drawing techniques. This session begins in the classroom and concludes with drawing various elements in the gardens.

Class Series: Drawing The Huntington

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