Have you wondered how fashion drawings are created and why the figures look so stylized? Learn the basics of figure drawing with a fashion approach in Christine Mariotti’s class “Drawing Figures with Fasionable Style.” Design and draw exotic garments on your figures and render the textiles with colored markers to resemble the images from your imagination.

This class is directed to those who like to sew as well as those who like to do figure drawing, but are hoping to improve their skills with a new media. Basic figure proportions are stressed as well as drawing faces, hands and feet with elegance. The class starts April 6 and meets from 6 – 9 p.m. each Wednesday for eight weeks.

Instructor Christine Mariotti is a nationally and locally known freelance textile artist and professional painter with an extensive background in teaching of all levels, from K-12 to university and adults. She earned her master’s degree in art education from Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., and owned and operated a retail craft business for a decade.

Mariotti will also teach “FIBERARTS,” an introduction to the varied world of what is commonly called Fiberart, but consists of explorations of paperarts, bookmaking, papermaking, feltmaking, textile printing on fabric and unusual surfaces with a variety of media. Learn the basics of producing your own collage papers and use them in multimedia projects, both 2-D and 3-D. Each week’s lesson will explore a new direction in the world of fiber. This class starts Monday, April 11 and meets from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. each Monday for eight weeks.

Call 828-894-3092 for more information or to register for upcoming classes. Class information is also available online at www.isothermal.edu/learnstuffpolk.