- Teacher: Erin Milez
- Class Length: 6.5 hours (half hour lunch break)
- Start Date: Friday, August 8
- Time: 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
The Power of Repetition
Repetition creates rhythm, mood, and emotional weight. In this one-day workshop, you’ll learn to repeat forms and gestures with purpose—moving beyond likeness to design, narrative, and impact. If your figures feel static, this is your next step.
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Repetition: Build Mood in the manner of George Tooker
George Tooker and José Clemente Orozco build emotional intensity through repetition. Study how repeating shapes, gestures, and figures can create rhythm, mood, and symbolic weight. You’ll work from a live model to invent your own repeating structures that draw the viewer deeper into the scene.
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″)
