Open Workshop
INSTRUCTOR - Patrick Seufert
FOR AGES 12 & UP
It is recommended (not required) that Foundation Drawing and/or Color Theory have been completed before taking a Workshop class. Please contact Mr. Seufert for more information.
DESCRIPTION: This course is designed for students who want to pursue different drawing techniques and/or art materials from week to week. (i.e Students may wish to learn to draw an animal/animals for one to two weeks and then decide to learn how to create a cartoon, or draw a face, in the following weeks of the course.)
The Instructor (Patrick Seufert) must be informed a week ahead of the scheduled class, as to a students’ desired subject/materials, in order to prepare the lesson. If a student is undecided, then the teacher will provide a list of areas of study they can choose.
Students can work in any materials they have previously been introduced in courses at the SAS. (Graphite pencil, charcoal, pen & ink, pastel or colored pencil (Prismacolor). A student must have completed the Watercolor Course previously at SAS in order to work in W/C.
Supplies needed for this course: Most supplies will be decided week to week.
HB graphite pencil (minimum)
Kneaded eraser or pink eraser
Strathmore 11” x 14” sketch book (minimum)
Pastel pencils (perhaps)
Newsprint paper (perhaps)
Pastel paper (perhaps) & other supplies chosen by student.
All supplies for this course can be purchased at the SAS, as needed. Supplies are not included in the cost of the course.
INSTRUCTOR: Patrick has been teaching at the SAS for over 10 years. He receiving his BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple U., Philadelphia. He is a professional artist, who developed his own unique style of painting in a hyperrealistic manner. His talents has proven to be exceptional, in that it granted him acceptance into many prestigious National juried shows, such as Allied Artists of America, Oil Painters of America and the National Oil Acrylic Painters’ Society. Over the past 15 years, Patrick’s oils have won numerous prizes, including many Best of Show, Best Landscape, First Prize in Oils & Merit Awards, across the U.S.
Mainly an urban landscape painter, he also has rendered seascapes and rural areas. An article titled “Urban Painter”was recently published in the Bucks County Magazine (Spring ‘26).
Patrick’s work is presently included in the Allied Artists International Exhibition, online.
Students may wish to draw a flower in colored pencil……
…or render a face in pencil, ……
…or work from Life, in chalk pastel, or Oil pastel
…or learn to draw the body, from life, from manikins……
Student’s choice !