Students will learn elementary life drawing skills with a focus on the human face. Using basic geometric shapes to form facial features, each student will draw their own portrait (or that of a loved one from their own photograph or a fellow workshop member from a live drawing) in pencil on paper. Through observation students will learn to place, expand and modify these basic shapes in order to add emotion to their portraits. We will transfer the portraits on squares of flesh-colored cotton fabric and learn four basic embroidery stitches used to define the facial features — back stitch, satin stitch, blanket stitch and French knots. Students will take home a finished embroidered portrait which can be adhered to a new or existing project, such as a quilt, pillow, hand bag or clothing.