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 TRANSCRIPTION Challenge: Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass. Media is artist’s choice. In recent V. Notes I talked about how artists learn and get inspired by studying works by other artists. In art, to transcribe is to copy or record information in a different form than the original. To transcribe a painting or drawing is not …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7165″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Quilled brain by Sarah Yakawonis With some activities, I get a voice telling me it’s a waste of time. Usually this voice comes up loudly in the first 5 minutes of making art. Somehow, it doesn’t come up much when I watch tv. Unlike watching tv, I feel better when I …
A pioneer in 20th century printmaking, Glen Alps was the professor and creator of the Printmaking Department at UW. Alps coined the term “collagraph” for his prints in the 1960s. The process was much more involved then traditional printmaking methods such as engraving, serigraph, or etching. Collagraphs are a low-tech, low toxic, and accessible printmaking process. …
Here’s another painter from the list of Carlos San Millan’s favorites: Mitchell Johnson. Johnson’s paintings take urban and suburban architecture and turns them into playful studies of color and shape. The shapes in his recent paintings are large, flat areas of pronounced color theory – almost resembling collage. Artist influences: Josef Albers, Morandi. Place influences: …
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!
Click here: Figure Drawing Classes at the League
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