Seeing Better, Drawing Better

Seeing Better, Drawing Better

Class | Available

140 East Main Street Tuckerton, NJ 08087 United States
TBD
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4/25/2026 (one day)
10:00 AM-2:00 PM EDT on Sat
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$55.00
$50.00

Seeing Better, Drawing Better

Class | Available

Join Cheryl Knowles-Harrigan, an art professor at Atlantic Cape Community College, as she guides you  through a class designed to enhance your understanding of space, volume, and subtlety in drawing. 

The main goal of this workshop is to help you discover new ways of seeing your subject matter, making your drawings more accurate, interesting, and successful.

The workshop is ideal for beginners and intermediate artists, but anyone with some experience will benefit.

Things you will explore:

Recognizing Volume:

Improve your ability to translate three-dimensional forms onto a flat surface or from photographs.

Drawing Concepts:

Gesture
Negative space
Ellipses (and common challenges with ellipses)
Sustained drawing
Interplay of light and shadow (with techniques for capturing them)

 Additional Skills:

Structure and speed in drawing
Use of both dry and wet media



  • Participants will need:

    - variety of pencils from 2B to 6B (such as 2B, 3B, 4, 5 or 6B), a mechanical pencil 2B

    -  a white eraser (no pink erasers please!)

     - swatch of soft cloth

    - durable multi-media sketchbook that can handle wet and dry media  – I like the spiral bound Canson XL Mixed Media Sketchbook*. 9 x 12 or 11 x 14 in size (paper is 98 lb). If you have more than one sketchbook please bring an additional one.

    - Participants should bring a few still-life items such as fruits and vegetables.


    Note: Regular paper sketchbooks just used for drawing in pencil will not handle wet media well and will buckle and soak through to other pages. So please ensure the sketchbook is multi-media.

    ~Bring a snack  – the workshop goes through the lunch hour but we will take a 15-minute snack break.

    - Additional materials for the class will be available for all to use and return.




Cheryl Knowles-Harrigan


Cheryl Knowles-Harrigan was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art (illustration) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (painting, printmaking). Her graduate degree is in Educational Technology from Stockton University of NJ. She is a Full Professor of Art at Atlantic Cape Community College where she teaches drawing, mixed media painting, classical drawing and painting techniques, printmaking, and General Education art courses for non-majors. She has lectured on art history, art appreciation, and led hands- on workshops for teenagers and adults at numerous art and community centers. In 2009 - 2010, she received a Princeton Mid-Career Fellowship that allowed her to study the portrait and conceptual writing and art while authoring an in-depth research paper that was published by Princeton University. She was the 2011 recipient of the Lindback Teaching Excellence Award.

Cheryl is in numerous private collections and has exhibited her work in many solo and group shows in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her work can be seen at Ocean City Fine Arts League and other shore locations. She is in the permanent print collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Noyes Museum and numerous private collections. She is a resident studio artist/Associate Artist at Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts (Studio 3), and a signature member of StrobeNJ (Visual Artists’ Collective of NJ). Cheryl is a resident of Milmay, NJ where she lives with her husband John, and their rescue dogs Mabel and Cletus Oreo.


You can see more of Cheryl’s work and get updates on workshops and events by visiting Ckharts on Facebook, knowlesharrigan on Instagram, or her Website: ckharts.com.


Artist’s Statement:

No matter the medium, the primary goal of my painting is to clearly communicate to the viewer beyond what is simply seen. When painting realistic subject matter, be it landscape, still life, or figure, I seek to find the nuances of a subject that evoke a sensation of a mood, time, and space. Even though my paintings are usually quiet, I hope they speak volumes to the viewer through their rich detail, light, and color thus capturing not only the likeness of the subject but more importantly its spirit at that moment in time.