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Art with Andrea at the library
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Librarian Andrea Robinson instructed her first Art with Andrea class at the Austintown library on June 18.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Norma Ruess came to her first art class, Art with Andrea, at the Austintown library on June 18.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Jasmine Loyen participated in Art with Andrea at the Austintown library on June 18. Loyen worked for the duration of the class drawing the display provided with a combination of pencils and shading tools provided.
By amanda tonoli
The first Art with Andrea class took place on June 18 at the Austintown library.
Librarian Andrea Robinson led the class with her knowledge and background of being an art minor while in college.
Robinson said she was excited she got to spend the allotted class time drawing, a hobby she does often on her own time.
“I draw all the time,” Robinson said. “I like having it on the side as my stress reliever.”
She started the class encouraging to first look at the bigger picture and then file down the details later.
Robinson gave many tips throughout the class about scale and sizing objects – the books, glass, grapes and cup – and bringing them onto the paper.
“You can use something as simple as your pencil to measure things to compare them to other things,” Robinson said.
She provided help along the way when students had questions, but reminded them that not everyone’s way of doing something was going to work for them.
“You kind of develop you own way of doing something,” Robinson said. “It’s best to just come in and just draw, practice is the only way anyone gets better, I can talk until I’m blue in the face and it’s not going to help you at all.”
In addition to providing the drawing materials, Robinson also provided some literature, educating students on drawing things as they are, not as they should be – allowing the class to learn about the type of drawing they were doing as well as getting to create their penciled work of art.
“Drawing from life is great,” Robinson said. “Learning is fantastic.”