LEARN TO DRAW!  

My advice for every potential artist is to learn to render form. Great ideas without the technical ability to see form correctly simply founder.

Accomplished botanical illustrator Carol Ann Morley offers Building Drawing Skills (SA 8), a class that is perfect for folks with little drawing experience, as well as those who wish to increase the skills they have. Her class covers learning how to see, contour outline, how to shade to create depth, perspective, and composition. 

  

Carol also offers Colored Pencil Skills (SA 9), a 3 week class that will focus on problem solving to achieve the colors you want in your art work as you learn what hue, value and chroma mean. Learn to mix and layer your colors for successful results in this exploration of colors that are intense, subdued, warm and cool and those that will give depth and contrast. 

    

Joshua Langstaff offers a Representational Drawing (SA 11) class that introduces students to the time-tested methods of classical realist drawing. Learn to block in a subject and simplify what you see into clear shapes and values and use light and shadow to create the illusion of depth and form. 

  

On a more whimsical note, Bill Paarlberg offers Extreme Sketchbook (SA 7). Bill suggests you cut up your sketchbook and glue it back together, paint with dirt, pine needles, sticks leaves, flowers and found objects. Or make your own sketchbook from paper bags, books or newsprint. Try things out of the ordinary as you stretch the boundaries, make a mess and have fun!

 

3 Dimensional Classes 

 

 

 

Director's Notes: Go Figure!
If you take the time to learn to draw and paint the figure, you can do anything, in my opinion. I’ve spent my entire life trying to master the figure and it has been a most rewarding adventure. It’s kept me endlessly engaged and interested as an artist. I invite you to explore the mysteries of the figure in drawing, oil painting and watercolor. 

 

  

Russel Whitten welcomes you to Figure in Drawing & Watercolor (SA 3). Beginning with the accurate drawing of the figure, then building on the understanding of watercolor, his class will provide training on how we see forms, colors, and values abstractly and as derived from nature. Drawing proportions, shadow forms and watercolor mixing and learning how the human figure exists visually in an environment are key elements of this class.

  Joshua Langstaff offers a very focused, immersive experience in representational figure work in his Classical Figure Drawing (SA 12) class. Focusing on the foundational skills needed to draw the human figure with convincing realism; after practicing those skills with short poses, students will then envelop a sustained figure drawing over several weeks. Proportion, anatomy, and shaping light and shadow to create the illusion of form will all be emphasized.

  Joshua Langstaff also offers a two day Mastering Flesh Tones in Oils Workshop (SA 13), exploring strategies for creating lifelike flesh tones in oil paint. Work from master images as you study practical color mixing methods, including structured palette “recipes” for accurately representing a range of complexions and ethnic backgrounds. Joshua also presents a 3 day Figure Painting Intensive in Oils (SA 14) workshop in March. Painting the figure in oils from a live model, going through the stages of block-in, value lay-in, and full color, students will learn to refine likeness and expression.

 

 

 

Anthony Alemany, in his Sculpting the Hands & Feet (SA 17) class, helps students focus on the most expressive and challenging aspects of the human form. Exploring structure, anatomy, gesture and rhythm, students will learn to observe, interpret and sculpt the hands and feet with confidence and sensitivity.