[image_with_animation image_url=”6075″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Ruthie V.
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“Figures; Draw Paint Sculpt” Friday night class
Sculpting changed our drawings! Have you ever seen a figure drawing look as heavy as these (below) by Lendy Hensley? They weigh as much as the real model! They have gravity, volume, mass, and space. Aren’t they gorgeous!
[image_with_animation image_url=”6072″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Lendy Hensley “The sculpting has changed my drawing. I like it.” – Lendy Hensley [image_with_animation image_url=”6074″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Jessica Conaway [image_with_animation image_url=”6073″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Kelly Gargour [image_with_animation image_url=”6071″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Alex Walker “This class was so much fun I could hardly stand it.” – Alex Walker
Next “Figures” class starts Friday August 4, 6-10pm CLICK HERE to join us
Preparing for my Unconventional Portraits class this Friday night, I asked Google to show me famous portrait painters. I saw this: In a line of 27 portrait painters, 24 are white men. The exceptions are two black people, and two women. One person in the line is both black, and a woman: Amy Sherald. That …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9446″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] For the past couple quarters I’ve been teaching beginning figure drawing shorties. “Shorties” are Seattle Artist League shortened classes – shorter by hours, by weeks, or both. These are run like cardio exercise classes, fast paced and intensive, but short enough to not be too overwhelming. I’ve been adding …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. Make something today! UNGUIFORM The previous challenge words were urceiform and unciform. Today’s word is unguiform. Urceiform is vase-shaped. Unciform is hook shaped, and if it’s unguiform then …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8694″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This spring, my Friday nights are going to be in an Unconventional Portraits class. These Friday night classes have become my night to do whatever I think would be the most fun thing to do. This quarter I got most excited thinking about Unconventional Portraits. This is not a realist class …
Continuous line drawings from “Figures: Draw, Paint, Sculpt”
[image_with_animation image_url=”6075″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Ruthie V.
Continuous Line Figure Studies
“Figures; Draw Paint Sculpt” Friday night class
Sculpting changed our drawings! Have you ever seen a figure drawing look as heavy as these (below) by Lendy Hensley? They weigh as much as the real model! They have gravity, volume, mass, and space. Aren’t they gorgeous!
[image_with_animation image_url=”6072″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Lendy Hensley “The sculpting has changed my drawing. I like it.” – Lendy Hensley [image_with_animation image_url=”6074″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Jessica Conaway [image_with_animation image_url=”6073″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Kelly Gargour [image_with_animation image_url=”6071″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Alex Walker “This class was so much fun I could hardly stand it.” – Alex Walker
Next “Figures” class starts Friday August 4, 6-10pm
CLICK HERE to join us
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