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Life Drawing
Figure Fundamentals
with Bridget Ertelt
This new class was designed with your learning in mind. We will talk about all things figure drawing! Students will use graphite pencils to draw the figure. Lecture and demos will accompany drawing time to give the student a strong foundation from which to work. The class information will build systematically. For the first few classes, students will work from a new pose each night with emphasis on accurate proportion and a strong start. Poses will progressively lengthen from 2-4 nights as students learn to render the figure with a step-by-step approach. Topics covered will include gesture, bone structure and skeletal anatomy, accurate shape building, perspective, and understanding how light falls on form and form rendering.
Life Drawing & Painting: Sunday Afternoons
with Hannah Wehling
Life drawing is at the core of any serious program of fine arts. In these classes, students draw from the figure in pencil, charcoal, including an option of painting. Each drawing or painting is created over a period of sessions, developing the student’s eye for accurate gesture, proportions, and anatomy. With a single sustained pose, students will have the option of either taking one drawing/painting to a high degree of finish or completing several drawings from different positions around the model.
Costumed Figure Drawing & Painting
with Christine Mitzuk
In this class we will explore how to portray clothed figures and different materials. Learn about underlying anatomy and how it affects folds, characteristics of fabrics and folds, and ways to use your artistic license to select folds and edit what you observe to serve your picture. These are useful things to consider when you need to invent or recreate the look of a costume for a picture.
This 14-week class will be broken into three segments, each with a different costume and pose. Using the sight-size method, students will develop a minimum of three costumed figure studies. Depending on experience, students are welcome to work in pencil, charcoal, or oil paint.
Life Drawing & Painting: Wednesday Afternoons
with Kenneth Schweiger
Life drawing is at the core of any serious program of fine arts. In these classes, students draw from the figure in pencil, charcoal, including an option of painting. Each drawing or painting is created over a period of sessions, developing the student’s eye for accurate gesture, proportions, and anatomy. With a single sustained pose, students will have the option of either taking one drawing/painting to a high degree of finish or completing several drawings from different positions around the model.
Alla-Prima Figure Study
with Kenneth Schweiger
One-day figure studies
Students will paint a new study each week working from the figure. Working from a new pose each week will give students many opportunities to study gesture, anatomy, proportion, value and color! Instructors will guide the student to achieve a complete figure, starting by drawing and progressing to blocking in with paint while striving for accuracy in proportion. All students will begin in black-and-white value for the first two classes progressing to color based on skill level and student preference. Throughout the class topics to be discussed will include value structure/form, some anatomy, color mixing/ relativity, and understanding temperature. Different exercises will be presented throughout the class to focus on these topics.
Life Drawing & Painting: Wednesday Evenings
with Cyd Wicker
Life drawing is at the core of any serious program of fine arts. In these classes, students draw from the figure in pencil, charcoal, including an option of painting. Each drawing or painting is created over a period of sessions, developing the student’s eye for accurate gesture, proportions, and anatomy. With a single sustained pose, students will have the option of either taking one drawing/painting to a high degree of finish or completing several drawings from different positions around the model.
Life Drawing & Painting: Thursday Afternoons
with Cyd Wicker
Life drawing is at the core of any serious program of fine arts. In these classes, students draw from the figure in pencil, charcoal, including an option of painting. Each drawing or painting is created over a period of sessions, developing the student’s eye for accurate gesture, proportions, and anatomy. With a single sustained pose, students will have the option of either taking one drawing/painting to a high degree of finish or completing several drawings from different positions around the model.
Figure Drawing with White Chalk
with Stephen Bush
In this 3-day workshop students will learn the fundamentals of incorporating white chalk into their figurative drawing toolbox. By building light shapes with chalk we are able to explore the planar development of light masses while following the flow of light falling across the figure. Drawing will be done on toned paper, teaching students to identify the middle value range from which to key tonal relationships both up and down the value scale. By the end of the workshop, students will have a stronger understanding of the ever-elusive and incredibly subtle 'mid-value' range.