Drawing from the Masters – New!

Drawing from the Masters – New!

Adult Multi-Week | Available

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States
Drawing West
All Levels
10/8/2025-10/29/2025
9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Wed
$170.00
$153.00
$10.00

Drawing from the Masters – New!

Adult Multi-Week | Available

Learn specific principles of design and composition to help you develop your own studio practice and creative voice! This class will provide you with specific concepts, strategies, and exercises to learn how to study and draw from master works of art from the Renaissance to present. This class is open to all levels of experience and will be beneficial for both representative and abstract artists. To quote the writer Jeanette Winterson: “The true artist is connected. The true artist studies the past, not as a copyist. Leonardo is present in Cezanne, Michelangelo flows through Picasso and on into Hockney. This is not ancestor worship, it is the lineage of art.”



  • Accessibility notes: Many artmaking processes require the ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time, fine motor skills/finger dexterity, repetitive motions, vision, and some amount of physical strength. VisArts values making classes accessible to everyone, and is always happy to work with students to make accommodations when possible. Please reach out to info@visarts.org with specific questions related to accessibility or accommodations.

    Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.



    On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. Please visit visarts.org for more information.

Eanes, Mark
Mark Eanes

Mark Eanes is a painter, printmaker, photographer, curator, and educator who currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to living in Virginia, Mark lived in the Bay Area of California since 1970. He holds a BFA in Fine Arts from U.C.Santa Barbara and an MFA from Mills College.

Eanes is Professor Emeritus from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he taught drawing and painting courses for over thirty three years. Mark also taught at other art institutes in California including San Francisco State University, the Academy of Art University, Dominican College in San Rafael, College of San Mateo, and other community colleges.

Mr. Eanes taught figure drawing at the California State Summer School for the Arts ( a pre-college arts program at CalArts in Los Angeles) for twelve years, and was the Chair of the Visual Arts Department for three years. Mark has also conducted numerous private drawing and painting workshops throughout California and Italy, and has recently created online courses (The Language of Color, Design and Drawing) through the Mark Eanes Academy website.

Eanes has exhibited his artwork throughout California as well as nationally and internationally. His past solo and selected exhibitions include the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA., the Parsons School of Design in Paris, the Applied Arts Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, the Documenta Galeria de Arte in San Paulo, Brazil, Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA, Pence Gallery in Davis, CA, Hanford Center for the Arts, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and the San Francisco Center for the Book, among many other venues.