Composing Your Still Life Workshop with Alyce Grunt

The foundation of a good drawing or painting is "composition," or the arrangement of shapes, lines, textures and colors. Learn to create effective and pleasing compositions in this instructive and fun drawing workshop with artist, educator and Cerulean Collective member Alyce Grunt! Alyce will guide you through the process of making an adjustable viewfinder, then to practice seeing a still life arrangement as a collection of shapes that fit together like a puzzle.  Learn to make “thumbnail” sketches – small, quick drawings – to determine the ‘must-haves’ and what you can leave behind in your composition. Take your favorite thumbnail sketches and make a drawing or two based on your most satisfying compositional arrangements. 

Includes a tour of Alyce Grunt's Cerulean Collective exhibition, on view July 2 - 27.

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Date:  Sunday, July 27, 2025
Time:  10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Fee:  $75 
Register by:  July 18 (space is limited)

** Sign up with a friend and receive 10% off both registrations.  Use discount code ClassSum25 at checkout. 

Alyce Grunt earned a Bachelor’s degree in studio art from Wellesley College and a Master’s degree in art education from Massachusetts College of Art. She is also a member of Cerulean Arts and teaches high school art at Penn Wood High School in Lansdowne, PA. Through this experience she has found different ways to explain concepts to different types of learners. Working as a teacher informs her own art. She values finding opportunities in mistakes! Often her work is a response to observing her surroundings, taking inspiration from the interaction of light and shadows and trying to find ways to arrange the colors and shapes into something satisfying. This in turn informs her teaching as she stresses planning intentional compositions that provide strong underpinnings and support students’ development of their artistic skills.