Students will learn about characteristics of different charcoal tools and complete drawings with an emphasis on mark-making, exploring the expressive qualities of charcoal. The drawings will include different subject matter from still life to portraits. The class will also cover basic drawing processes and techniques.

Class minimum: 4

Class maximum: 10

About the Instructor:

Tatsuki Hakoyama is a Japanese artist who lives and works in Grand Rapids, MI. Although he works with a broad range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and papermaking, his passion is creating allegorical figurative paintings influenced by magical realist painters. Aside from exhibiting his work in various solo and juried group shows, he teaches as an adjunct faculty at Kendall College of Art & Design and Grand Rapids Community College.

ACWL-Nuveen classes are supported in part by grants from the Michigan Arts & Culture Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nuveen Benevolent Trust.