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- Teacher: Erin Milez
- Class Length: 6.5 hours (includes half hour break)
Movement and Rhythm – Animating Figures
What makes a figure feel alive on the page?
In this class, you’ll explore how movement is created through rhythm, tilt, and active placement. Learn how diagonal lines and repeated forms guide the eye and energize your composition.
You’ll work from a live model, experimenting with stacking, bending, and angling figures to create visual flow—turning static poses into scenes that feel animated and full of life.
Expect fast sketches, bold design decisions, and one finished piece that moves.
Figure Painting: Narrative through Style Summer Series
Discover how artists turn a single figure into a whole story.In this series, we’ll explore how stylization of the human body creates meaning, emotion, and narrative. Each class focuses on one master artist’s approach to form: their distortions, exaggerations, rhythms, and structures that shape how we feel about what we see.
Working from a live model, you’ll study these different visual “languages” and invent your own. Classes are monochromatic (your choice of color), pushing you to think through shape, proportion, and design without the distraction of color. You’ll practice quick gestures and build toward finished figurative compositions, applying one principle of design each week.
Prerequisites: Figure Drawing, Beginning Painting
Sign up for individual classes, or take the full series at 15% off. Use the coupon code FIGURESTORY15
Supplies:
- Basic drawing supplies for sketching (your choice)
- Acrylic or oil paint (your choice)
- Medium/ large pad of paper for sketching
- One painting surfaces, primed paper or canvas (9×12″ to 18×24″)
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