WEEKEND CLASSES ARE ONGOING.
STUDENTS MAY ENROLL ON A MONTH-TO-MONTH BASIS AS THEY WISH.
PRICES ARE PER MONTH.

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Instructed Cast Hall • Nicholas Hiltner
Saturday • 10AM - 4PM • $150

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 • Sam Wisneski
Saturday • 9:15AM - 1:15PM • $135

Over a period of four sessions students will produce a focused study of the human form. One pose will be worked on for four classes, allowing students to strive for accuracy and nuance in their drawings, all the while establishing the major forms and volumes of the figure. Key issues that will be addressed in this class are block-in/proportions, creating a graceful gesture, basic figure construction, anatomical landmarks, and modeling 3D form in relation to light. Download Materials List

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The Cast to Still-Life: Techniques and Composition • Tony Curanaj
Saturday • 10:30AM - 2:30PM • $135

The student will first start with a focus on the antique cast. These studies develop the skills and understanding of the essential fundamentals needed in painting. Accurate drawings will be made and transferred to the painting surface as a preliminary step to the underpainting. A string of neutral grays will be mixed in order for the student to concentrate on value, understanding and conceptualizing form, edge control, and a high degree of modeling. Color will be introduced and eventually lead the student to his or her own still life set up. Here, other principles such as composition, materials, color theory, poster studies, painting in layers, glazing and scumbling will be learned and advance the student through each stage of the painting. Download Course Description, Bio and Supply List

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Open and Closed Grisaille • Brian Schumacher
Saturday • 1:45 - 4:45PM • $115

Open and closed grisaille are two of the earliest of traditional methods used to lay-in the groundwork for fine oil painting. Open grisaille uses thin, semi-transparent washes of oil paint and the white of the canvas. Closed grisaille uses white, mixed with umbers and black, to create an opaque, monochromatic gray-scale. This class will explore both, and how they can work together, as a means toward creating vigorous paintings from life. Download Full Course Description and Materials List