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Derek currently is a faculty member at Northwest College of Art & Design in Tacoma, WA. The drawing, painting, and illustration classes he teaches there are part of a curriculum in a BFA in Visual Communication in which students are enrolled in for 3 years. For more information about NCAD, please visit www.ncad.edu

Derek co-founded Sketch Seattle in 2014, and taught Seattle based sketching workshops with Ron Stocke 2014-2016.

Here are a few video lessons I put together a couple years ago, little did I know I would be filming most of my lessons and teaching online during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Today's technology is amazing and I look forward to filming more painting lessons for online use in the near future. Stay tuned.

View from Villa Monastero, Varenna, Lake Como, Italy: Video 1


View from Villa Monastero, Varenna, Lake Como, Italy: Video 2


View from Villa Monastero, Varenna, Lake Como, Italy: Video 3


View from Villa Monastero, Varenna, Lake Como, Italy: Video 4