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Mrs. Carsley currently is the Fine Arts Chair and a Visual Arts Instructor at Severn School and an adjunct professor in the Corcoran School of Art Botanical Illustration Certificate Program. Through her teaching career, she has been affiliated with the following:
United States Botanic Gardens
National Museum of Natural History
The Carnegie Institute
National Science Foundation Summer Teachers Institute
Humboldt Biological Research Institute
The Fairchild Challenge
The Natural History Society of Maryland
Catholic University of America
College of Southern Maryland
The Friends School of Baltimore
The Bryn Mawr School
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Welcome to Mrs. Carsley’s Instruction Page.
- Please look at the headings below in Works in Progress, Drawing, and Painting and click on the instruction sheets downloads for your reference.
- Don’t forget to browse the latest text recommendations.
- Don’t forget to check out the latest Works in Progress and email Mrs. Carsley with your latest works, questions and news.
- Checkout the web links for upcoming workshops.
- Thank you for stopping by!
• Works In Progress
• Drawings
Drawing Basics: Sketching Rough to Finish PDF
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Drawing Basics: Tone, Light, Shade and Shadow
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Basic Drawing: Beginning Sketch Examples
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Basic Drawing: Values with Pen
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Drawing Basics: Values With Pencil
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Basic Drawing: Basic Perspective 1
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Basic Drawing: Basic Perspective 2
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Basic Drawing: Copying Master Drawings
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• Painting
Painting: Beginning Sketch Examples: Compostions 1
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Painting: Beginning Sketch Examples: Compostions 2
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Painting: Beginning Sketch Examples: Compostions 3
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Painting: Beginning Sketch Examples: Compostions 4
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Painting: Beginning Sketch Examples: Colorwheel
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• Recommended Texts:
Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from LifeBy George B. Bridgman
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters
By Robert Beverly Hale
Artistic Anatomy
By Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale
Perspective Drawing Handbook
By Joseph D’Amelio
Animal Drawing Anatomy and Action for Artists
By Charles R. Knight
How to Draw the Marvel Comics Way
By Stan Lee and John Buscema
How to Draw and Paint Wild Flowers
By Keith West
Painting More than the Eye Can See
By Robert Wade
The Art Spirit
By Robert Henri The Zen of Seeing
By Frederick Franck The Book of Tea
By Kakuzo Okakura Composition
By Arthur Wesley Dow Rendering in Pen and Ink as well as all texts
By Arthur Guptill Bannister Flecther’s History of Architecture Architecture is Elementary
By Nathan Winters Architecture Form, Space and Order
By Francis D.K. Ching