The "Drawing with Imagination" art class teaches strategies with exercises geared toward gaining confidence and enhancing creativity. The student will explore how to take a "mindless" doodle to a masterful creation. They will take the familiar and turn it on its ear and create something original. The student will tell stories through details in the drawings and play with patterns to create captivating compositions. Also the student will learn to develop a theme in their work. In each class Mr. Weesner will offer basic guidelines to help the student channel their creative energies in the right direction.

A supply list will be provided at the Parent/Student Orientation Meeting.

Mr. Weesner specializes in drawing, painting, and graphic design. He earned a B.F.A. in Advertising Art from the University of North Texas, and a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary with an emphasis in Media Arts. He has worked in the advertising industry for 30+ years. He served as the Graphic Services Manager at The Cooper Institute for 18 years designing and illustrating best-selling books, annual reports, brochures, newsletters, magazine and newspaper advertisements, educational manuals, point-of-purchase displays, and logos. Clients included Campbell’s Soup, Reebok, Northern Telecom, Mary Kay Cosmetics, all branches of the U.S. Military, Xerox, and Kellogg’s. He has exhibited in a number of juried art shows.

In addition to teaching four classes at RHSA, Mr. Weesner teaches Drawing I, Drawing II, Beginning Watercolor and intermediate Watercolor at Dallas College [Richland Campus] along with senior art classes at Twin Rivers and the Jewish Community Center as well as in-home private lessons.

This will be his twelfth year to teach art classes at RHSA.

Class meets on Tuesday from 12:30 PM to 1:25 PM & on Thursday from none to none & on Day 3 from none to none