Afternoons daily from 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Monday July 21st - Friday July 25th, 2025

Ages 12 -16 (12 Students Maximum)

Instructors: Neil Smith and Chris Canales-Cisneros

With instruction from a professional artists, participants will build and extend current drawing skills, while working alongside other like-minded artists. Students will choose their own illustration to develop throughout the workshop, according to their personal interests.

Students will visit a working art studio collective called Spare Room with Neil and Chris as part of this workshop, they will have the chance to see both of the artists’ personal studio spaces at Spare Room and have an opportunity to print their illustration on a Risograph machine!

The group will be walking to Spare Room from Drawing House which is located in Lakeshore Mews across from Heritage Park on Simcoe Street.Click here for map

Topics covered will include:

• drawing people and understanding anatomy

• drawing buildings and perspective

• drawing Landscapes

• lighting and shading

• rendering with different tools such as: ink, pens, markers, paints

• digital techniques

• printing techniques