Experimental Drawing 2: Beyond Observation

SCHEDULE

Sundays 11:30am-1:00pm

INSTRUCTOR

Ari

AGE RANGE

Adults

COST

$180 for 4 classes

Class Description

Through a series of structured prompts, material investigations, collaborative exercises, and discussions of contemporary artists, students will deepen their understanding of drawing as a conceptual, spatial, and process-based medium. This course emphasizes risk-taking, experimentation, and the development of an individual visual language. Students will work across abstraction, memory, chance operations, and mark-making systems while receiving individualized feedback and participating in group discussions.

Week 1: Systems, Constraints, and Chance

Using rule-based approaches and generative exercises, students will explore how limitations can open unexpected creative possibilities.

Week 2: Memory, Mapping, and Personal Narrative

Drawing from memory, intuition, and lived experience, students will develop visual languages that move beyond direct observation.

Week 3: Expanded Drawing

Students will investigate collage, installation, unconventional materials, and drawing as a spatial practice.

Week 4: Project Development

Students will synthesize techniques and concepts from the course into a final experimental drawing project, culminating in a group discussion and reflection on future directions for their practice.

This class takes place at Ari's art studio in Downtown LA.

Enrollment

One session includes four weekly group classes. Enrolling in a session means committing to the four weeks of classes, creating continuity for both you and the group.

Location

Instructor Private Studios

Skill Level

All Levels Welcome

Materials

All Materials Included

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How It Works

Each month, a new session begins offering guided creative growth and collective learning.

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Meet

Ari

Ari's painting lessons are tailored to unleash students' unique artistic voices, whether they're beginners exploring visual expression or advanced artists seeking critique and refinement. With a background in Fine Arts from SAIC and UCLA, Ari fosters creativity through personalized mentorship, introducing students to new materials and guiding them with generative questions to deepen their creative practice.

Ari received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Painting from UCLA. While at SAIC, Ari was the first student in ten years to be nominated and accepted to the Norfolk Summer School of Art Residency at Yale University for the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship. Ari believes creativity is within us all and fosters artistic growth through mentorship is one of the best ways to move forward in developing a creative practice.

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Testimonials

I loved doing drawing lessons with Ari. Ari is a great art teacher… kind, professional and playful at the same time. I love Louder as well. They have always been very friendly and have great art classes in LA

Millana S.

I highly recommend Louder LA platform for various creative help but most notably Ari for art classes. I was so scared to take art or painting lessons and have always felt that I needed to find a way to express myself in that way. I felt really supported and was able to work through some blocks that I've always had around drawing. The class had beginning painters and also advanced artists who I guess knew of Ari's body of work. I am looking at taking private lessons in the future, but I did really love the small class aspect of it.

Opulent O.

So grateful to have come across this drawing class in Los Angeles! As someone who has never formally drawn before, I had a very uncomfortable relationship to my creative self in this regard before taking this class. Ari is such a kind and caring teacher who has provided immense support and encouragement to play and learn more about materials and practices in a way that promotes self expression and discovery rather than a prescriptive approach to drawing. Ari is a fantastic and knowledgeable art teacher who is attentive with each student and is able to meet everyone’s needs and curiosities, recommending books and further techniques to explore if desired. I’m very glad I learned about these art classes in Los Angeles and I look forward to joining the next session when I return to Los Angeles.

Haley R.