Current Class open for Registration

Mary Esch
Artist & Art Instructor

Botanical Drawing: Learn the drawing basics: proportion, shading, and contour line while drawing the flowers you love. Learn how to use Contour line and shading to record plant structure and texture. We will use traditional botanical art materials: pencil, pen, scratch-board, and watercolor. Open to the public.
Six Saturdays: Sat. April 10-May 15, 9- 11:30 AM, $160
Lifelong Learning Program St.Catherine University, Visual Arts Building, Room 202
To Register Contact Chris Klejbuk at 651-690-6666


questions and scheduling contact
Mary at mryesch@netzero.com
651-224-1637
or Ann Brombach at annbrombach@gmail.com
651-698-1817

Specializing in
Observational
Drawing for Beginners:
Adults and Teens

I offer five fascinating courses.
They may be scheduled at your
convenience with 4 or more
individuals. Some courses
are scheduled already.
Call for more information.

Wake Up Your Right Brain
For Beginners. Introduction to the
very basics of observational drawing.
Mary relies heavily on the famous book
“The New Drawing on the Right
Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards
Hands-Faces-Perspective-Proportion
8 sessions (20 hrs)

Botanical Drawing
Learn basics: shape, shading,
proportion,while drawing
the delicate flowers you love.
Pen-Pencil
6 sessions (15 hrs.)

Landscape Sketching
For Intermediate Drawers
Learn techniques for
drawing spontaneously
with pen and watercolor.
Try the perspective machine.
6 sessions(15hrs)

You Can Draw Houses Too
For Intermediate Drawers
A workshop introducing perspective
drawing while using a perspective
machine just like the
Renaissance Masters!
1 session(5hrs.)


Drawing About Town
Tailor made for Intermediate
Drawers..Get a better sense of
what you like to draw by exploring
the city and learning strategies
for sketching in public places.
Shape-Shading-Perspective-
Architecture-Figures-Churches-
Museums-Cafes
8 sessions (20hrs.)

Reasonable Rates
References/Resume
upon request

“Mary’s teaching style uses
a learner-centered approach...
with reachable goals...
she teaches content by
role-modelling how to apply
skills. Her good humor
and kind ways make a
class with Mary enjoyable.”

- Lorraine Delehanty, student

Mary Esch is an award-winning artist
with 10 years of teaching experience at
such institutions as Como Zoo and Conservatory
Botanical Art Department and
St. Catherine University: Life-Long Learning

questions and scheduling: Mary mryesch@netzero.com 651-224-1637 or Ann Brombach at mailto:annbrombach@gmail.com

Commission a
Pencil Portrait of a
Graduating Senior

or a

House Portrait
in Pen and
Watercolor