DRAWING
PAINTING
SCULPTURE

EVENING CLASSES ARE ONGOING.
STUDENTS MAY ENROLL ON A MONTH-TO-MONTH BASIS AS THEY WISH.
ALL CLASSES ARE FROM 6:30 TO 9:30 PM.
PRICES ARE PER MONTH.

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Instructed Cast Hall • Camie Davis
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday • $200

Drawing from the antique cast addresses the fundamental questions of composition, gesture, light direction, and value construction with the added benefits of a stationary object and a limited palette used under controlled light. Instructed Cast Hall will encourage a slow, calm, thoughtful approach to gaining a deep understanding of the cast three dimensionally. Artists will be trained to think sculpturally, to make more accurate decisions, and to create drawings that are true to life. Download Course Description and Materials List

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Figure Drawing and Painting • Edward Minoff and Travis Schlaht
Monday - Friday • $200

The class will emphasize the fundamentals of drawing and painting; blocking in, working from the inside out, and modeling conceptualized form. This will offer a sort of training ground for the eye where students will learn how far they can push accuracy and resolve towards nature. Working from the figure, through a series of long poses, students will learn to manage relationships creating an analogous balance that describes the three dimensional experience on the flat page. As students gain a fluency with the pencil they will continue to utilize these principles in paint. Preliminary drawings will be transferred to the canvas where students will first work in grissaille. Finally, students showing a proficiency in pencil and grissaille will paint the figure using a color palette. The instructors, Travis Schlaht and Edward Minoff, will teach the class together giving students a very thorough treatment of this critical and vast subject, each offering a unique but complimentary vision. We will share the intensity of the core program, offering an introduction or supplement to the ideas explored there. Download Materials List

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Figure Drawing: Short and Long Pose • Jon DeMartin
Wednesday • $115

The first half of each session will be dedicated to short pose drawing. The objective is to seize the figure quickly and vigorously to capture the rhythmic action of the pose and to acquire knowledge of its construction. The second half of the session will be a long pose drawing. The objective is to make a thorough study of the model’s character by carefully observing the shape and value gradations. We will analyze the differences and the similarities of the two approaches of drawing and why they are necessary for a well-rounded understanding of the figure. Download Course Description and Materials List

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Perspective • Patrick Connors
Sept 12 - Oct 31 • $250

This course is an introduction to linear perspective, which is the intellectual basis for representationist thought and spatial illusionism. The principal perspective system studied is based on Leonardo's model but several other are examined. These include that of the eighteenth-century Englishman Brook Taylor and of the nineteenth-century American Thomas Eakins. The phenomenon of camera-conditioned thought [which includes camera obscura and photography] and its relationship to linear perspective will also be pondered. At the end of the course the student will have completed about four sets of plates covering such drawing exercises as one- and two-point perspective; and placing architecture, landscape and figures in space. Most importantly, the student will have acquired some skills and knowledge to help improve independently in his or her work. Historically, the rewarding and unique pleasures of its application have been documented in oil, ink, or clay. The 'delightful and noble art' of linear perspective is the flesh, heart, and soul of classic pictorial space, from placing the objects in a still life to the disposition of figures in a composition. This is done not necessarily by projecting a diagram but by being able to intuitively and plausibly place the components of a composition in space. 8 instructed classes, 6:30PM - 9:30PM. 3 of these classes will include a Powerpoint lecture open to the public. Download Course Description and Materials List