Artwork by Charis Fleshner
Drawing: Color Pencil
This 4-week class will introduce students to techniques that will elevate their use of color pencil. Students will learn how to burnish the paper, mix colors, and see and match colors. The class will explore the instructor’s drawings, the works of CJ Hendry, as well as works in the DAM’s collection.
What to Expect: During this class, students will be learning and making. The instructor will share inspiration drawings, demonstrate technique, and then allow time, guidance, and support for students to create. This class is for beginners as well as artists who have not been taught colored pencil technique before. No previous experience required. Students will be making small experiment drawings, though there will be time in the later weeks of class to create works based on what has been taught throughout the duration of the course.
Creative Classes are taught in a studio art environment and offer an opportunity to learn from professional creatives through traditional and experimental approaches. Each class is uniquely designed by a creative educator for an adult audience, designed to help you learn a new skill or expand your own creative practice. Explore the Summer/Fall 2025 class schedule.
Photo by Andrew Moline
About the Educator
Charis Lillene Fleshner is a conceptual mixed media artist who completed her MFA in studio art at the University of New Mexico. Fleshner currently teaches art at Aims Community College and shows work nationally. Before starting graduate studies, Charis Lillene Fleshner used her bachelor's of fine arts in art education from University of North Texas to teach junior high and elementary art for seven years. Her studio practice currently focuses on painting, soft sculpture, Craftivism, and the intersections of Feminism and art.
