DRAWING
PAINTING
SCULPTURE

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Summer Intensive • Jacob Collins
Colleen Barry • Angela Cunningham • Will St. John
May 31 - June 25 (20 days) • 10am - 5pm
$2200 ($850 deposit)
Class full. Taking names for a waiting list.

The four week Summer Intensive is an introduction to classical academic drawing.  Students will work from antique casts and the live model. Instructors will address the fundamentals required to make a clear and accurate drawing.  Establishing proportions and conceptualizing form will carry the artist’s cast and figure drawings to a highly resolved finish.  The student will gain greater technical facility and a deeper understanding of the Classical tradition.

Jacob Collins will lecture, critique and demo on Wednesdays, 10am - 5pm. Rotating, full-time instruction by Colleen Barry, Angela Cunningham, and Will St. John (Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri, 10am - 5pm). Students may stay and work for monitored evening hours, 6 - 9pm. Download Materials List

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Head and Figure Drawing • Jon DeMartin
June 14-18 (5 days) • 10am - 5pm
$600 ($300 deposit)
Class open, accepting registrations.

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 that will carry over for the week. 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. Materials and methods will be studied that pertain to certain styles of drawing. Individual needs of each student are addressed and there will be lectures and demonstrations with and without the model. Download Materials List

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Cast Drawing and Painting • Joshua LaRock
July 6 - July 16 (10 days) • 10am - 5pm
Please note there will be no class on Monday, July 5th
There is class instead on Saturday, July 10th.
$1150 (deposit $500)
Class open, accepting registrations.

Cast Drawing and Painting is the most fundamental and important step on one’s quest toward fine draftsmanship and skill in rendering classical form. This course will encourage a slow, calm and thoughtful approach to gaining a deep understanding of form with the great benefit of a controlled environment and distilled complexity. Students will be trained to think sculpturally in order to make more accurate decisions and inform what the eye perceives. The experiences and concepts learned during this course of study are then applicable to all that one may encounter in their artistic endeavor. (Please note that it is highly recommended, as it is greatly beneficial to the advancement of the student, that all who have not taken cast drawing at the GCA should draw during this workshop as opposed to painting. Of course, this can be discussed on the first day.) Download Materials List

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Portrait Drawing and Painting • Camie Davis
July 19 - 30 (10 days) • 10am - 5pm
$1150 ($500)
ONE SLOT AVAILABLE.

In this ten day work shop students will complete a thoughtfully rendered and highly refined portrait painting with interior. We will be working with the same model three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon with a one hour lunch break in between giving us sixty hours of model time over the course of the workshop. All students will start off rendering a preliminary block in sketch in graphite with a focus on accuracy and likeness. Beginning students will be encouraged to continue rendering their portrait in pencil , with the additional option of toned paper and white chalk. Advanced students may transfer their drawings to canvas and proceed with a full color portrait. The main focus of this work shop will be on providing a solid and accurate foundation with your drawing to then take further with naturalistic flesh tones and an understanding of light on form. Additional discussions on color, composition, poster studies, and aesthetics will also be offered. All steps will be previewed through instructor demonstrations. Download Materials List

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RECENTLY ADDED!
Cast Drawing • Colleen Barry
August 23 - 27 (5 days) • 10am - 5pm
$400
Class open, accepting registrations.

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 Materials List