HCCArts is happy to announce two days of intensive instruction in freehand drawing provided by artist Brigitte Woosley.
Woosley is an award-winning fine arts painter/Western artist, illustrator and courtroom artist, as well as a respected art instructor teaching university level art courses and individual workshops.
The sessions are Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 13-14, 9 am. To 4 p.m. at The Classroom at the Agri-Cultural Museum and Arts Center in Boerne.
A freehand drawing class teaches you how to sketch objects, people, and places using your eyes and hands without tracing or strict mechanical guides. These classes help you build line confidence, control proportions, and draw from real life or your own imagination.
What you will learn includes: Line and stroke; Basic shapes; Freehand perspective; Proportions; and shading.
A Texan by birthright on her father’s side, Woosley was born in Germany, where her father met and married her German mother. She’s spent much of her life roaming all over Texas with forays into other places, but always returning, like a boomerang, back to Texas.
Woosley attended Trinity University in San Antonio, earning a bachelor’s degree. While a student at Trinity she was hired by the now-defunct “San Antonio Light” newspaper to sketch the Houston Mass Murders trial, and then by WOAI television in San Antonio to sketch the Jeanine Jones Murder trial — and so began her career as a courtroom artist.
She later attended the University of North Texas, Dallas, where she earned a master’s degree in illustration and computer art, and upon completion, was hired by CBS to cover the Waco Branch Davidian trial in San Antonio.
She has worked for both international and national broadcast networks.
Woosley’s father’s side of the clan were farmers and truckers, and feed store owners and combined operations that included raising cattle, horses and other livestock. These occupations and activities were germinal in her choice and focus on Western art as a specific genre.
As she so happily acknowledged, “Back in the day, if it had four legs and I could get on it, I’d do my best to ride it.”
Courtroom illustration is not a fulltime gig, and has allowed Woosley to pursue her painting techniques, as well as teaching art and illustration classes at the university level, the Western Art Academy in Kerrville, and a number of diverse workshops and classes for different art councils and organizations throughout Texas.
Woosley’s Western Art has been exhibited in many shows and art exhibitions; southwestern art invitationals; and several one-woman shows. She has also been featured in “Western Art Collector” and “Southwest Art” magazines.
Woosley has won the Joe Beeler Western Art Award of Excellence, and a couple of awards from the Dallas Society of Illustrators. She’s currently represented by Texas Treasures Art Gallery in Boerne. She’s decided to stay close to home for exhibition purposes these days.
Her work is in various public and private collections, one notable collection belonging to Oleg Stavrowsky, noted Western artist and one of her favorite artists whom she met and who admired and bought a painting at one of the shows where she was exhibiting.
“Nothing beats having your work purchased by someone you greatly admire,” she modestly admitted.
Join. Donate. Volunteer. The Vision of the Hill Country Council for the Arts is to create an arts culture through promotion, education, collaboration, and leadership. For information, call Paula at 210-2698349, or refer to our website, www. hccarts.org.
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