I am excited to be starting a regular life drawing class again - this time in the beautiful upstairs studio at the Royal Queensland Art Society! Inner city Brisbane on Petrie Terrace.
Come and have a glass of wine, forget the outside world, and meditate on the magic of drawing the living human body in a supportive and enjoyable environment. I will guide you through a series of activities designed to familiarise you with or improve your mastery of the core elements of drawing the figure, there will be both group and one on one instruction/ demos.
The content will be drawing from the model working through the Elements of Classical Figure Drawing from the Form, Gesture, Anatomy course.
We will cover the following five areas - both separately and then reintegrating them together.
1. Blocking in and accuracy - key landmarks, orienting masses in space in relation to each other, analysing form and gesture in essentials, in particular the torso
2. Thinking in Volumes - seeing/feeling and drawing the body as large masses, and constructing/ depicting subforms using only line.
3. Design principles in the human body (and nature generally) - S curves, C curves, and straight lines, line weight, harmony and variation, counterbalance, extending lines as far as possible, looking for a major line of design and related lines
4. Gesture and exaggeration - finding swing and rhythm to the line, taking the observed pose and exaggerating this slightly, telling a story with the body - making it move
5. Rendering - principles of rendering form in light and shade, types of rendering, points about rendering in different media, options for direction of linear rendering,
Enrolled students will be given a membership with one month of access to the Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course online book (can be extended if desired by choosing one of the payment options). You may prepare for the class by following the activities in the notes, (particularly from the Fundamentals of Form sections). How to do this will be sent to you upon enrolment.
I recommend parking on the right hand side of Petrie Terrace across from RQAS (it is a one-way street) because there is 4 hour free parking after 7pm. Note it is a clearway until 7 pm.
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th March 2020
7:10 to 9:40 pm
(this timing allows you to access parking on Petrie Terrace immediately after the clearway ends at 7:00pm - please arrive at 7pm)
Upstairs workshop space, Royal Queensland Art Society
The door will be unlocked prior to class start or you can buzz or call me on the number pinned to the door.
Regular price for 1 class : $70 Australian Dollars, for 4 classes: $240 AUD
Full Time Student for 1 class: $40 AUD, for 4 classes: $120 AUD
To access student discount, proof of enrolment in a tertiary institution will be required at the first session attended.