10:30-4:30
At my home studio-with-a-view
In this post:
About the Workshop Series
Dates and topics
Details
Cost
How to sign up
Lewis Hine
'Powerhouse mechanic working on a steam pump'
1920
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP SERIES
Welcome to the Nuts & Bolts Workshop Series - and welcome to my home studio!
I've chosen three big, important topics that often get skimmed over - perhaps because they are seen as dry or difficult.
Perspective and Basic Volumes are extremely helpful for a thorough understanding of forms in two dimensions.
Once you understand the basics of these topics, your own work gets easier and more fun. They are like a skeleton key you can apply to everything around you, whether organic or man-made, and will aid you in convincingly rendering not only your surroundings but subjects from your imagination. Finally, I've included Drapery as a perfect application for modeling the form and light and shadow.
I'll be presenting the topics in a approachable, concentrated format to get the information across and enable you to use it right away.
- Six consecutive days of instruction
- Three pithy art topics
- Three days of Guided Practice, open to all. You do not have to take a Workshop topic to attend
- Break for lunch and conversation - bring what you'd like, or snack on food and drink I provide
- You can sign up for any number or combination of days, from 1-6
DAY ONE
Saturday, March 27
10:30-4:30
Perspective: How it Works & How to Use It
After a brief but wide-ranging introduction, you will learn the basics of one-point, two-point, and three-point Western perspective and find out how multiple vanishing points work.
Learn how to make up objects in perspective from imagination. Then find out how to apply perspective to make sense of the real world around you. You'll explore railroad tracks, telephone poles, arched colonnades, windows of buildings, skyscrapers, interiors, furniture, round still-life objects and briefly, the human body, all in the context of perspective.
The class makes the fundamentals of perspective learnable and ready to apply.
Canaletto
Venice: Riva degli Schiavoni, 1730-33
Pen & ink over pencil on paper, 196-309mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
DAY TWO
Sunday, March 28
Guided Practice Day
Mentored open studio day for all students. Come practice what you learned in Perspective class, or bring any project you'd like to work on in a friendly but structured setting. You can draw, paint, or collage. There will be plenty of material for you to work on here and a high degree of individual attention.
DAY THREE
Monday, March 29
Basic Volumes: Drawing the Cube, Cone, Cylinder & Sphere
After a brief art history lesson relating to these simple but powerful forms, you'll study each of them in pencil and charcoal to understand their particularities of shape. The lesson includes a mini-lesson on perspective as it relates to these forms, as well as an in-depth look at modeling the form, and light and shadow.
Learn how to draw these shapes from life as well as from memory. Includes a demonstration of how basic volumes can be used to understand complex, real-life objects and natural forms.
DAY FOUR
Tuesday, March 30
Guided Practice Day
Mentored open studio day for all students. Come practice what you learned in Basic Volumes class, or bring any project you'd like to work on in a friendly but structured setting. You can draw, paint, or collage. There will be plenty of material for you to work on here and a high degree of individual attention.
DAY FIVE
Wednesday, March 31
Drapery: Understanding and Drawing Folds of Cloth
Drapery is one of the great subjects in art history, with the beauty of many paintings, drawings and sculptures hingeing on the graceful and artfully constructed fall of cloth.
In our modern dress, while satin robes may be less frequent, it is still important to understand the ins and outs of drapery as it appears in clothing, curtains and still-lifes.
This rich topic is also a perfect opportunity to apply elements of basic volumes, modeling the form, and light and shadow. You'll learn the fundamentals of creating convincing folds of cloth in each of these contexts, with a look at pattern on draped cloth as well.
Leonardo da Vinci
Drapery Study, 1470-1479
Brush & tempera on linen
Musée du Louvre, Dept. of Graphic Arts
DAY SIX
Thursday, April 1
Guided Practice Day
Mentored open studio day for all students. Come practice what you learned in Drapery class, or bring any project you'd like to work on in a friendly but structured setting. You can draw, paint, or collage. There will be plenty of material for you to work on here and a high degree of individual attention.
DETAILS
Sign up for any number or combination of days. You can mix and match as suits your interests/schedule.
Class size is limited to 5 people.
Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
COST
1 day $95
2 days $190
3 days $270
4 days $360
5 days $450
6 days $570
HOW TO SIGN UP
Send me an email with your preferred days. I will send you a confirmation email and where to send your check.
Thank you for joining me for the Nuts & Bolts Workshop!
