Everything has ‘gesture’. Just imagine ‘miming’ a bouquet of flowers or even a rock with your hand gestures. If your movements could leave a charcoal record on paper – that’s a gesture drawing. Kinda like ‘air guitar’. Here is a step-by-step demonstration, including the use of a ‘reference frame’, useful for keeping to a scale or staying within a drawing space.
Category: FACE AND FIGURE
LIFE DRAWING & FACE-FIGURE SESSIONS AT SEMIAHMOO
Previous LIFE DRAWING
MODEL SESSIONS
AT SEMIAHMOO ART & REC CENTER
Life Drawing
The Semiahmoo Recreation and Art Center will sponsor an “open” life drawing session, Friday mornings 10 am – 12:30noon, from Sept 16th thru December 2 (12 weeks). Tony O’Regan and/or Susan Falk will organize models (draped & undraped) and room, lighting, etc. The Center will commit to sessions every Friday, if it proves viable and this would be repeated after Christmas.
The sessions are ‘informal’ in the sense that there is no formal instruction. Participants pay $50 for 5 session parcels, which can be spread throughout the 12 weeks. Members of the Arts Council can have 6 sessions for the price of 5. There will be a subscriber/ attendee list at the door for name check-off. We may consider promoting a show at the end (at least on the internet). Payment/registration can be made at the Arts council front desk when you arrive or beforehand.
Semiahmoo Rec-Arts Center, 14601 – 20 Avenue Surrey, BC V4A 9P5
Past Classes at Semiahmoo Arts
All supported by demonstration – instruction on Tony’s video website www.toregan.com
Semiahmoo Rec-Arts Center, 14601 – 20 Avenue Surrey, BC
4 MONDAY EVENINGS Fall 2016 –
Drawing the FACE:
Mainly drawing, using charcoal and a variety of other mediums, but with an emphasis on portraiture, lighting and expressions, hair, etc. We may also explore basic color mixing for fleshtones.
All supported by demonstration – instruction on Tony’s video website: www.toregan.com
4 MONDAY EVENINGS Fall 2016 –
Drawing the FIGURE:
Aimed at drawing the individual figure, draped and undraped, in situational poses – stand, walk, sit, recline. We will explore anatomy, lighting, gesture, twists, turns, etc. Great for life drawing and all figurative work.
Four Mondays, 6:30 – 9:00 pm, Nov 7 – 28, 2016
Winter-Spring 2017 – MONDAY EVENINGS – DRAWING FOR PAINTERS:
Using charcoal and a variety of other mediums, we will learn 10 Ways of Seeing and Drawing, of use for anyone, but of special benefit to painters: Gesture, contour, mass, space, shading, silhouette, tonality, figure-ground, perspective, composition. A variety of subjects will be explored, villages, perspective, people in streets, landscapes, still-life. Materials not included – list will be supplied.
Four Mondays: 6:30 – 9:00 pm; Jan 16, 23, 30, Feb 6
IN THE NEW YEAR 2017 – 5 MONDAY EVENINGS
PAINTING IN WATERMEDIA:
Choose to explore either acrylic or watercolor. Subjects will be explored and demonstrated in both mediums. Special focus on West Coast Landscape this session. Materials not included – list will be supplied.
Five Mondays: 6:30 – 9:00 pm; Feb 20, 27, Mar 6, 13, 20. All supported by demonstration – instruction on Tony’s video website www.toregan.com
Semiahmoo Rec-Arts Center, 14601 – 20 Avenue Surrey, BC
SPACEHEAD – Learning to see and draw ‘SPACE’
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DRAWING SCALE FIGURES IN PERSPECTIVE (TAS DRAWING June 1 2016)
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DRAWING SCALE FIGURES (TAS DRAWING June 1 2016)
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COMPOSING GROUPS OF FIGURES FOR STREET SCENES
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Art in the Country – Shading and Face Muscles – (Vid 7 of 7)
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ART IN THE COUNTRY (Toward the Portrait Sp 2016) – Thank you!
Hi Tony ! I cannot thank you enough for the terrific workshop that you offered us out here last Wednesday. Your teaching was superb, your demonstrations provocative and your humour divine. We all enjoyed the day with you very much and hope that you did as well. Enjoy the photos attached and let me know if I can post on Facebook’s ART IN THE COUNTRY IN ALDERGROVE page. All the best and with much appreciation,
Susan G.
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Posted by Art in the Country in Aldergrove on Sunday, March 20, 2016