
Upcoming Workshops

Intro to Figure Drawing
Sharpen your figure drawing skills in this 6-day charcoal-based intensive beginning August 12. Taught by Justin Kapp and Christopher Nixon, this Tuesday/Thursday class is perfect prep for Kingsley and Early’s painting classes.

Roberto Osti - Aesthetic Anatomy: focusing on structure and aesthetic of the Portrait and Human Figure
The second session of our Figure Anatomy workshop with Roberto Osti, is dedicated to analyze and draw the male and female figure from life, focusing on their structural, skeletal, muscular and aesthetic aspects, at the end of this series of workshops, the participant artist will have acquired a solid foundation in Anatomy for Figure Drawing, including a number of drawing techniques traditionally associated with figurative art.
This workshop will deal with the stereometric rendering of the head and torso, discussing proportional relationships between the various parts of the body, structural characteristics of the male and female figure and measuring and drawing techniques.
Future workshops will deal with the skeletal and muscular structures of the various parts of the body: torso, head, arms and legs in front back and side views, and finally hands and feet.

Intro To Figure Sculpture with Harold Kalmus
On two consecutive Saturdays from 9-5pm, this figure sculpture workshop will be an introduction to the basics of working three dimensionally. We will concentrate on quickly building major masses and proportionally relating them to one another, capturing the gesture of the pose.

FORM AND COLOR: PAINTING THE FIGURE with Steven Assael
Steven will discuss an analytical and dynamic approach to painting the human figure, emphasizing color and value relationships in a related atmosphere.
This class will paint from a live model. Students can choose a model and paint the portrait or the figure.

Roberto Osti - Aesthetic Anatomy: focusing on structure and aesthetic of the Human Figure
This Figure Anatomy workshop, is the first of a series dedicated to analyze and draw the male and female figure from life, focusing on their structural, skeletal, muscular and aesthetic aspects, at the end of this series of workshops, the participant artist will have acquired a solid foundation in Anatomy for Figure Drawing, including a number of drawing techniques traditionally associated with figurative art.
This first workshop will deal with the stereometric rendering of the figure, discussing proportional relationships between the various parts of the body, structural characteristics of the male and female figure and measuring and drawing techniques.
Future workshops will deal with the skeletal and muscular structures of the various parts of the body: torso, head, arms and legs in front back and side views, and finally hands and feet.