Upcoming Events:
The Elements Of Fine Portraiture
The Art League
Dan Thompson
March 16th – 18th, 2012
This workshop is designed for intermediate oil painters who wish to investigate and further develop skills associated with fine portraiture. By means of longer poses and through the techniques of grisaille and color, accuracy of drawing, planar construction, and archetypes of the head, as well as the interrelation of facial features, students take away a wealth of knowledge and experience for future work. Model fees are extra.
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(703) 683-2323
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Figure Drawing Workshop
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art
Dan Thompson
April 21st-22nd, 2012
This course has been designed for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of drawing in order to explore the human figure in long pose. The instructor will teach by demonstration lectures, presenting a series of complementary principles of drawing. Such principles, all derived from direct observation of the model, will layer upon each other and comprise a grand strategy for effective long pose figure drawing. The lessons will be reinforced by personal critiques as each participant develops a two day long pose drawing. The resulting drawing should thus provide a window into a how the student may create a more seamless approach to the classical figure.
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(818) 708-9232
(877) MY-LAAFA
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Long Pose Figure Drawing
Scottsdale Artists’ School
Dan Thompson
April 23rd – 27th, 2012
Long Pose Figure Drawing is a unique experience for students to work side-by side in the studio on a range of fundamental to advanced skills. With an initial series of short demonstrations, the instructor will layout a set of concerns which can be used for both short and long pose drawing: Gesture, via the line of action & armature of the design, linear relationships and line extension; Proportion, via two-point measurement, triangulating measurement, use of the environmental “grid” around the model; Shape, via a series of subtle exercises on 2-D vs. 3-D seeing; Orientation, via anatomical landmarks. As the figure drawing materializes, students will be encouraged to layer additional insights into the piece: learning to see planar relationships in the figure, using them to transition from flat value masses into the body in space, developing alignment and symmetry, and setting up for the finishing game. In the later stages of the pose, students will learn how to organize modeling by balancing the concerns of light direction, morphology, and rhythmic, organic surface form into an aesthetically pleasing result.
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3720 North Marshall Way Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
(480) 990-1422
(800) 333-5707
info@ScottsdaleArtSchool.org
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Intensive Course in Long Pose Drawing and Painting
Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier
Dan Thompson
June 4th – 29th, 2012
This course is being produced in accordance with a four month program for motivated students of figure painting and drawing from life for the purpose of investigating nuances of strategy in working from direct observation. By means of longer poses and through drawing, grisaille and color, a comprehensive approach to the artist’s language will be presented to the student in an intense environment to enable each participant to learn by listening, seeing and by doing.
The instructor will lecture and demonstrate daily on the decisions concerned with early, middle and end game drawing and painting procedure in order to emphasize a grand strategy for the artist, referencing larger objectives as well as more immediate, practical concerns. The nearly thirty hours of instruction per week over four weeks will be meticulous, demanding, and take the form of personal critiques as well as class and one on one demonstrations.Points of discussion (and their context) will include:
Insights into how to develop a consistent accuracy of drawing using gesture, human proportion, likeness and/or character; issues of pictorial design using shape, flattening the field, tonal harmony, simplicity, massing and organization; color as the critical element for infusing the sense of atmosphere, open and closed grisaille, brush handling, the artist’s palette; anatomy as an invaluable tool using landmark, orientation, planar and theoretical construction; the portrait as fine art using archetypes of the human head, the interrelation of facial features through tactile memory, alignment, comparison; formulating a dynamic and dependable finishing game by understanding morphology, rhythm, light on form, perspective and how to chisel a finish.These and many sub themes should provide the student with a wealth of knowledge and clear experience for future work.
For more information and registration, please visit Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier.
345 Quarry Rd. San Carlos, CA 94070(650) 574-2210
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Long Pose Figure Painting from Direct Observation
New Hampshire Institute of Art
Dan Thompson
July 23rd – 27th, 2012
This workshop focuses on the great strategies of figure painting, from gesture to modeling. Students will study and experience, through practical application, a variety of individually powerful concepts which, when layered through long pose, comprise an adaptable, effective approach to the human figure in oil. The instructor will teach using demonstration lectures as well as individual critiques and demonstrations. The participant will be enabled to create at least one painting that can visually record the essence of the concepts presented. This long pose workshop has been designed for students at intermediate or advanced levels of proficiency, but beginning students are welcome to join, with the expectation that they will produce several figure paintings. Students will end the week with an improved grasp on how to articulate a more unique and personal vision.
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(866) 241-4918
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The Human Figure:
A Comprehensive Strategy
Whidbey Island Fine Art Studio
Dan Thompson
August 27th – 31st, 2012
This 5-day workshop has been conceived as a forum for intermediate to advanced students of drawing and painting to explore the nude. After an initial overview by the instructor, students will apply the information from session one to strengthen their starts. Thereafter, the model will assume a 4 day pose. This will enable students to design a figure in the environment, integrating action, proportion, shape, landmark, orientation, grisaille, anatomy, alignment, structure, color and morphology into a seamless approach.
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(360) 637-4690
(206) 571-0442
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