with Riley Strom

Build observational drawing skills through drawing studies in a supportive, virtual environment.

When: Weekly on Mondays from 4:30pm-5:30pm starting August 17, 2026

Where: ON ZOOM, THIS IS A VIRTUAL CLASS

Cost: Free!

Level: Beginner, Intermediate ages 13+

Materials Needed for Class:

Please feel free to use whatever you have at home to follow along and create your drawing. Pencils, pens, colored pencils, markers. Some projects use watercolor.

About the teaching artist, Riley Strom: Riley Strom is an oil painter from Los Angeles, currently living in New York. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence, and earned her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. In addition to her studio work and being an adjunct professor, Riley has shared her talents with the community in CFAER’s “Loosening up With Ink” workshop, and she also oversees our weekly evergreen Drawing Lab which launched in January 2021. As an artist she thinks a lot about the relationship between an image and the world it is representing. Her artistic process starts with observation. Music, people she meets, food, stories she’s told or read, found photographs, poetry, or pieces of trash are all potential subjects to paint and draw.