Every quarter I teach figure drawing on Sundays. No class is ever the same, which means that every artist gets to experience different ways to approach the figure. Each comes with a specific challenge that teaches a skill, and I hold the artists to that challenge, but individual styles are celebrated, as you’ll see in this collection.
Most of the drawings below were made by artists who are new to figure drawing, and all were made with the collaboration of live models online. Impressive work!
Drawings by: Carol Jackson, Emma Howard, Emma Nadolny, Pam Carraway, Grace VanNoy, Joe White, Hilary Wething, Emily Howatt, James Pedersen, Rita Parks, Teri Howatt, Suchin Gururangan, Linda Mendez, Georgia Ward-Collings, Emily Johnson, Lyall Wallerstedt, Karl Dyer, Sheryl Feldman, Jade Chowning, Jeanne Chowning, Karen Guo, Holly Gleser.
Gottfried Bammes
Figure drawing I and figure drawing II series’ for fall will be borrowing from Gottfried Bammes, the master of proportion and simplified structures. Exercises include planes, cross contours, mass, proportions, simplified plans, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to draw the figure, but were nervous to try, this class is for you!
Today’s Challenge: Mix and match figures with an interior from historical artworks. Materials are artist’s choice. #mashup References You can find your own references, or find something in these suggestions: Figures: Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii, Nicolas Poussin, Mughal Indian Miniatures Interiors: Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper Post it To be eligible for prizes …
Pictured above: Patty Haller’s mother in the Smith & Vallee Gallery Patty Haller was invited to use the front studio space at the Seattle Artist League so she could prepare several large panels, including a 12′ painting for her January show “Growth Patterns” at the Smith & Vallee Gallery. Haller spent the fall and winter at the …
Bump Hunting – A figure drawing technique in which an artist not well versed in anatomy compensates by looking for subtle bumps in the model’s contours. These bumps can be slightly exaggerated to articulate bones, tendons, fat, and muscles beneath the surface of the skin. V-cabulary is a new dictionary of invented art terms that would not …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7694″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Hey – who mailed us the gnarly stick with the bobcat stamp? We love it. For the creative challenge today, let standardized paper and implements be darned. Mail us something strange. Do not post your strange mail to our facebook page. You wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise, would …
Figure Drawings from Summer 2020
Every quarter I teach figure drawing on Sundays. No class is ever the same, which means that every artist gets to experience different ways to approach the figure. Each comes with a specific challenge that teaches a skill, and I hold the artists to that challenge, but individual styles are celebrated, as you’ll see in this collection.
Most of the drawings below were made by artists who are new to figure drawing, and all were made with the collaboration of live models online. Impressive work!
Drawings by: Carol Jackson, Emma Howard, Emma Nadolny, Pam Carraway, Grace VanNoy, Joe White, Hilary Wething, Emily Howatt, James Pedersen, Rita Parks, Teri Howatt, Suchin Gururangan, Linda Mendez, Georgia Ward-Collings, Emily Johnson, Lyall Wallerstedt, Karl Dyer, Sheryl Feldman, Jade Chowning, Jeanne Chowning, Karen Guo, Holly Gleser.
Figure drawing I and figure drawing II series’ for fall will be borrowing from Gottfried Bammes, the master of proportion and simplified structures. Exercises include planes, cross contours, mass, proportions, simplified plans, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to learn to draw the figure, but were nervous to try, this class is for you!
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