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The Painted Sketch • Richard Piloco
Two Month Class, Mondays, 6:30-9:30pm
Session 1: September/October, six classes (18 hour pose), tuition: $190
Session 2: November/December, eight classes(24 hour pose), tuition: $250
Session 3: January/February, seven classes (21 hour pose), tuition: $220
Session 4: March/April, eight classes (24 hour pose) ,tuition: $250
Session 5: May/June, eight classes (24 hour pose), tuition: $250
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In this course, painters will draw, make value and color choices , and compose all at once. While daunting at first, this direct approach underscores the harmony between these elements, and invites an intuitive understanding of how to make painting decisions. By managing all of these tasks simultaneously, artists will gain deeper understanding of the possibilities of oil painting -- and avoid over-thinking. Students will work from live models. Students will work in two ways, first, to capture the entire picture in a three hour time frame. And second, on two week poses to learn how to bring paintings to a higher degree of finish. The instructor will do one 3 hour demonstration each 6-8 week session, as well as painting along with students on one two week session showing how to carry a painting forward with a second pass. In watching the instructor solve the same problems students face, they will gain valuable insight on proceeding with their own canvas.

This method requires a strong foundation in drawing and color reading. Students will be expected to make well proportioned lay-ins, quickly. The limited time requires students to draw with the brush using tone rather than line as much as possible. Often the phrase “don’t draw” is misunderstood to mean drawing is not important. In fact, drawing skill (relative proportions, angles, accurate shapes) is fundamental to all good painting. This course focuses on using the skills honed by drawing, to make accurate tonal shapes with a brush. Download Course Description and Materials List

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Figure Drawing and Painting • Edward Minoff and Travis Schlaht
Monthly Class (60 hour pose)
Instructed three evenings, plus two uninstructed
Meets Monday - Friday, 6:30 – 9:30pm
Tuition: $235
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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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Long Pose Portrait Drawing and Painting • Josh Larock and Scott Waddell
Monthly Class (24 hour pose)
Instructed two evenings
Meets Tuesday & Thursday, 6:00-9:00pm
Tuition: $210
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In this course, students will draw and paint the portrait from a single pose lasting several weeks. The first several sessions of each pose will consist of drawing on paper to establish accurate shapes, proportions and structure in a linear mode. When the drawing is complete it will be transferred to linen for painting*. The following weeks will progress in a rational way, applying paint incrementally through an understanding of the effect of light on form. This procedure will include lengthy discussions on the physical events that cause particular hue, value and chroma properties. Beginning to advanced artists are welcome. (*Note: If students have little experience painting or wish to remain in a drawing mode they can opt to render fully in graphite on paper.) Download Materials List