Colorful Critters: Wildlife in Colored Pencil with Grace Hoppie
Tuesday, 4 classes
6pm – 8pm
Spring Session (Apr. 14, 21, 28, May. 5)
Price:
$200
Love working in color? Love critters? This is the course for you!
Join us in Colorful Critters to learn proper color usage techniques, a deeper understanding of color theory, and how to create to-scale illustrations of various Florida wildlife species! This four-week course will introduce you to valuable illustration techniques, methods of creating accurate scale, and give you an opportunity to learn of our state’s biodiversity! Each week will focus on a different animal, and a different principle of illustrating in color–an immersive experience that combines
Floridian environmentalism with fine art!
Materials List Student Responsibility:
● One 11’’x14’’ pad of Strathmore’s Colored Pencil paper, wire bound, with 30 sheets.
● Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils: 36 count
Grace Hoppie, a Rocky Mountain native, graduated from Eckerd College in 2024 with her BFA in
Visual Arts. With backgrounds in ancient historical analysis, anthropology, Latin linguistics, along with natural sciences and the arts, she incorporates a wide range of motifs and themes into her pieces. Her preferred focus is rearticulation of extinct animals and their osteological remains, on a life-sized scale. She works in predominantly charcoal and ink, but produces works using taxidermy, bone, oil paint, watercolor, and various printmaking techniques. Her work showcases her versatile skill, while bringing diverse subject matter to her viewers. When she is not creating, she can be found miles-deep in the forests and swamps exploring local biota. Or, enjoying King of The Hill with her three snakes, two cats, and one strawberry-obsessed parrot.
