The Old Master Drawing & Painting Technical Foundation Class
$500.00/monthly
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Realism in art is only as effective as it is convincing. Atelier students are challenged with learning a new language, a visual language. They learn to genuinely and comfortably "speak" this visual language, using technical knowledge to serve as its grammar and vocabulary.
Founder of the school, award winning David Hardy, feels strongly that students must build a solid technical foundation from which to work. In other words, become master of one's art rather than of a vassal to a happy accident. Students find the rigorous, traditional approach offered at the Atelier a bridge to now little-known techniques and principles inherited from the golden days of realism. Once learned, these methods help to effectively establish a beachhead in today's challenging art world.
This is an ongoing course and begins with drawing exercises to develop the understanding and skills necessary to use value (tone) for realistic rendering. Visual memory comparison measurements are used.
Students explore Old Master techniques for creating depth, distance, atmosphere, solid form, and convincing surface textures on a two-dimensional surface. Subjects range through cast studies, self portraits and still lifes.
Painting is begun once students have mastered the drawing segment of the course or its equivalent (subject to approval). The study of COLOR TEMPERATURE at the ASCR is one of the most thorough and helpful being taught today. The dynamics of color as affected by pictorial lighting come alive for the student artist. Advanced students learn the direct approaches to PLEIN AIR oil painting followed by coaching in Old Master layered glazing techniques.
Admission is by portfolio review.
To register, contact Underpainting Collective by email at info@underpainting.org
Artistic Anatomy
$450.00/monthly
Saturday
10:00AM to 4:00 PM
The goal of this class is to be able to compose effective and expressive figures in art.
This skill will be developed and improved through the study of anatomy, which helps us capture the essence of form through an understanding of how the parts of the body function. Charlie Antolin brings to this class extensive experience in figurative painting and sculpture. This class will be divided into two parts: 2D and 3D.
In the 2D phase, we will focus on drawing the skeleton and muscles with charcoal and chalk.
In the 3D phase, we will focus on écorché sculpture. Écorché sculpture is the process of sculpting from the inside out with clay, making the skeleton first and then placing the subsequent muscles on, one at a time, resulting in the total human form.
To register, contact Underpainting Collective by email at info@underpainting.org
Long Pose Figure Drawing Workshop
$30.00 per session if paid in advance monthly
($120 for 4-week months / $150 for 5-week months)
$35.00 per session "drop in"
Monday 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
This is a time for independent study and development of individual initiative. The model takes one pose for the session. These are repeated for about two months and, when desired by a majority of those participating, even longer. This permits students to study the anatomy of the model in detail. A marvelous opportunity is also presented to gain experience in the final finishing of a figure drawing or figure painting. There is no instruction during the workshops, but critiques are available during regular class hours.
Drop-in is welcome.