South Wellfleet Project Space

Students in basic drawing exercise at Cape Cod Community College. A small portfolio of student work from 4c's is here . This accredited course will be offered again in the fall of 2013. To register, please visit the college website.

Instruction in painting and drawing through a year-round series of workshops designed to accommodate learning at all levels. We welcome participants to experience the traditions of Cape Cod's cultural and artistic heritage in a remarkable and accommodating studio environment, and offer considerate and effective teaching processes that facilitate learning, growth, and enjoyment.

There is an emphasis on process and form comprehension that facilitates a communication of seeing. By acquiring an understanding of the visual field and its expression within a 2-dimensional surface, participants will be enriched with abilities that will inform them well beyond the workshops. Perhaps what distinguishes this instruction is the lack of schematic or crafty approaches to painting and drawing that concern "picture making". Instead, the emphasis is on the fact that within our perceptive capacities as well as within the tools and processes of traditional media, a certain logic and quality is inherent and generally accessible. The workshops are open to various drawing and painting media, and deliver a process-based and friendly instruction that allows the participant a pathway to accomplishment.

The workshops are offered on a year-round basis, meeting in the South Wellfleet studio during inclimate weather. Throughout the warmer months, weekend and midweek instruction will be offered en plenair- taking advantage of the numerous sites and spaces that are offered in the local environment. Beginning to advanced students of all ages are welcome.

visit the workshop page here


July 30-August 2, 2013 workshop offered at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
		Have you longed to develop your drawing skills and learn the types of visual information that artists seek to make realistic drawings? Are you looking for an approach to drawing that connects you to process and observation? In this drawing workshop we work to achieve representation in a variety of drawing media. The global skill of drawing any perceived object, person or place requires five basic kinds of perceptual information: the perception of edges, spaces, relationships, lights and shadows, and the whole or gestalt. visit the workshop page here


		artmatenwa.org is the website for an established cultural parrnership between two small communities - Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and Matènwa, Haiti. Visit this site to learn about this remarkable effort that is centered on the arts and economic development within a remote and impoverished Haitian Community. This excellent program is committed offering relief to the Matènwa community- to keeping their community intact so that people can continue their education and to make a modest living. By donating through their site, you can be sure that the money will be going to where it is most needed. While the focus is on Matènwa, a portion of all donations specifically to earthquake relief and rehabilitation. Help us to rebuild the lives of our friends on Lagonav and ensure Matènwa's future survival. For updated information straight from Matènwa visit the blog of the Matenwa Community Learning Center.

Pat de Groot Drawings

Pat de Groot creates observational drawings and paintings made from the artists studio on Provincetown Harbor. These remarkable works transcend recorded observation- the subject becomes the animation of nature through a faithfullness to subject that renders the artist transparent- A conduction of life force that records more than physical facts- The subject of these drawings becomes as much the behavior of these animals as their appearance. The drawings of cormorants pictured above is part of a larger installation- drawn with sharpie markers from a sea kayak!

The American Drawing Book:

John Gadsby Chapman's 1847 Drawing Book was used widely in American Public Schools. This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It's a fantastic primer that includes a treasure trove of drawing techniques and illustrations.

It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover.

Download as PDF.

Anyone who can learn to write can learn to draw, and as writing is not taught to those only who are destined to become authors, but as a forming part of general education, so is drawing equally important to to others beside professional artists. To write - to draw a form or figure that that should be recognised as a representation of a letter or a word, is one thing; and to be able to design, draw, or write such forms, upon principles of grace and accuracy - to understand the Art of writing is another. Thus it is with drawing, another mode of expressing ourselves, not less useful or neccesary than that by letters or words.

coming soon:
painting scrap- bin

-paintings and various studio works by Doug Ritter. Continuous construction.