A four-session class on Thursdays, from 1 – 2:30pm in the COA, beginning Thursday, Jan. 6. Develop or refine your drawing and painting skills in this friendly studio class that will focus on fundamental skills. Work on observation, perspective, scale, and technique, using pencils and watercolors. The class emphasizes process over product.

Instructor and Wayland resident Rahul Ray received his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata, India. He works in pencil, charcoal, and watercolor, doing sketches, portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, and abstracts. A retired professor of medicine at Boston University, Rahul is a cancer-researcher who also taught at Clark University and Framingham State. Also a poet and essayist, he teaches drawing and painting to classes and individuals. Registration required. Basic materials will be provided. Cost is $25.