Drawing from Observation and Imagination
4-weeks (first 4) | Registration opens 2/14/2026 9:00 AM EST
This course involves drawing with color from observation handling materials offered in class. Colored paper and chalk pastels will be used to help each participant gain experience in observation, composition and the use of imagination to foster their own individual expression. No art or drawing background is required. The instructor will work with each person individually as needed. Colored paper will be made available; other materials to be supplied by the student are listed below.
- Materials: scissors, ruler, glue stick, drawing pad of paper suitable for use with chalk pastels (9" x 12", 11" x 14", or a bit larger) and a small set of primary and secondary chalk pastels (not oil pastels) in red, yellow, blue, orange, green, purple, white, and black.
Marilyn Price
Marilyn Price is a painter, potter and teacher. She grew up in Manhattan, studying art in high school and at The Art Students League. She did undergraduate studies in art at Cooper Union and graduate studies in both painting and art history at N.Y.U. and Columbia University. Marilyn chaired the Art Department at Columbia Preparatory School for 29 years. She retired from that school in the mid-1990s, when she and her husband moved to the Hudson Valley. Here she continues to work in both painting and clay art and teaches at both Vassar LLI and Marist CLS.