These figure drawings were made in the last couple of sessions of my 5 week Beginning Figure Drawing Class. They are drawn with confidence, style, and sensitivity. Each week we practiced a different style of drawing, and a different way of approaching the figure. One style was named “Chocolate Bar Drawings” by an earlier class, because the conte was used on it’s side instead of on it’s end, as if we were dragging a chocolate bar across the newsprint (yum). Another day we focused on weight and balance. Still another day we did large soft mass shapes, countered by intricate contour lines. I love to look at these drawings. They so beautifully capture each moment.
A drawing is a record of your focus.
Beginning Figure Drawing starts Sunday, and this fall I’ll add a Level 2 class for people who collected gold points and an extra life in Level 1. If you’ve taken figure drawing at least once and want to step it up a little, this is the place to go.
Next Friday starts a special class on Hands & Feet: 5 weeks to focus on the complicated bits of figure drawing. When I was fresh out of art school and holding a certificate that said I could draw, I could sketch a figure, but never felt like I could get the hands and feet. I wasn’t comfortable drawing either until I did a series on them, and now I’m a lot more comfortable. My drawings don’t have empty spots, or fiddled hashes where the hands go.
In the first week of August is a specially requested class: Intensive Figure Drawing Teen Camp. The prerequisite is any time spent drawing, whether in class or on your own. If you want to learn how to draw better, but you’re not interested in being treated like a child, take this class. I’ll teach you all the same drawing lessons I teach in adult classes. This is an excellent portfolio builder for anyone with an interest in art.
Second week of August has a class no one asked for, but I am certain will make a big difference. “Heads” is a teen camp to teach how to draw in 3Dimensions, same as the adult class. It’s fantastic to see how fun and effective this class is.
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The Reith Lectures, Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013 Episode 1 of 4 Listen in pop-out player In the first of four lectures with the BBC, recorded in front of an audience at Tate Modern in London, the artist Grayson Perry reflects on the idea of quality and examines who and what defines what we …
If you’ve gone into instagram or padlet to see some of the creative responses to these challenges, you have probably seen some of the fabulous contributions from artists. From out of the dozens of interesting artworks, here are a few. Day 8: Reverse Collage The instructions were to stack materials, then reveal layers.
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William Robinson is an Australian painter, born in 1936. His enormous paintings of the Australian landscape often involve multiple perspectives with disorienting and twisting effects. He wants his viewers to feel that they are enclosed within a landscape, having it unfold before them. “Living in the country everything moves—the seasons, the clouds, nothing is set. …
33 Figure Drawings
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Lucy Garnett
These figure drawings were made in the last couple of sessions of my 5 week Beginning Figure Drawing Class. They are drawn with confidence, style, and sensitivity. Each week we practiced a different style of drawing, and a different way of approaching the figure. One style was named “Chocolate Bar Drawings” by an earlier class, because the conte was used on it’s side instead of on it’s end, as if we were dragging a chocolate bar across the newsprint (yum). Another day we focused on weight and balance. Still another day we did large soft mass shapes, countered by intricate contour lines. I love to look at these drawings. They so beautifully capture each moment.
Beginning Figure Drawing starts Sunday, and this fall I’ll add a Level 2 class for people who collected gold points and an extra life in Level 1. If you’ve taken figure drawing at least once and want to step it up a little, this is the place to go.
Next Friday starts a special class on Hands & Feet: 5 weeks to focus on the complicated bits of figure drawing. When I was fresh out of art school and holding a certificate that said I could draw, I could sketch a figure, but never felt like I could get the hands and feet. I wasn’t comfortable drawing either until I did a series on them, and now I’m a lot more comfortable. My drawings don’t have empty spots, or fiddled hashes where the hands go.
In the first week of August is a specially requested class: Intensive Figure Drawing Teen Camp. The prerequisite is any time spent drawing, whether in class or on your own. If you want to learn how to draw better, but you’re not interested in being treated like a child, take this class. I’ll teach you all the same drawing lessons I teach in adult classes. This is an excellent portfolio builder for anyone with an interest in art.
Second week of August has a class no one asked for, but I am certain will make a big difference. “Heads” is a teen camp to teach how to draw in 3Dimensions, same as the adult class. It’s fantastic to see how fun and effective this class is.
Enjoy the drawings.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”10454,10455,10456,10457,10458,10459,10460,10461,10462,10463,10464,10465,10466,10467,10468,10469,10470,10471,10472,10473,10474,10475,10476,10477,10478,10479,10480,10481,10482,10483,10484,10485,10486″ layout=”3″ gallery_style=”1″ load_in_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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