Unleash Your Line: Blind Contour Drawing

Saturday Workshop with Robin Roberts

  • In This Workshop, You'll Learn:

    Ideal for all skill levels, this session focuses on creativity over precision, helping you improve eye-hand coordination and develop your unique style. 


    Once the drawings are complete, we’ll bring them to life using loose, flowing watercolor washes that celebrate spontaneity and surprise. This class invites participants to embrace imperfection, play with scale, and enjoy the creative freedom that comes with letting go of expectations.


    Perfect for anyone looking to deepen their drawing practice, from beginners to seasoned artists. No drawing experience required. All skill levels welcome.

    We will learn to:

    • Improve your eye-hand coordination
    • Drawing techniques with engaging exercises
    • Add some character to your expressive line drawings!


    Students will walk away multiple finished paintings made from their contour drawings and watercolor.

  • Supply List for Students to Bring:

    This is a studio workshop and students will be using their supplies.

    • Hot Press watercolor paper (in sizes 8x10 or 9x12)
    • Watercolor paints (beginner set is fine)
    • Watercolor brushes
    • Blue painter's tape
    • Black permanent pens (waterproof)
    • Bring an interesting object from home to draw
    • A $10 materials fee to be paid directly to the instructor for additional materials.

  • Saturday Workshop Info:

    • Sat, June 27th from 11:00am-2:30pm
    • Instructor: Robin Roberts
    • Cost $115
    • Max 16 students
    • Level: 1 (beginners) and 2 (intermediate)
    • Age level: adult (18 & up)
    • Parking Info

  • If You Enjoyed This Workshop...

    Artists who have taken this workshop may also want to explore our Mixed Media class with Robin on Thursday evenings.

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About the Instructor

Robin Sanford Roberts

Robin Sanford Roberts is an artist and theatrical scenic designer working in models and mixed media. She makes art in studio #5 at Art on 30th. She has designed scenery for multiple theatres including the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage and Broadway.

She holds a degree in Architecture from LSU and a MFA in Scenic Design from UCSD. She also studied at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau and at Sir John Cass School of Art, London Polytechnic. Robin teaches and designs scenery for the undergraduate theatre department at USD.

“I have an obsession with old books and other ephemera. The fragments and bits of pieces come together to make a new piece. I enjoy working with pieces from the past that have a history of a previous life.”

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