Painting & Drawing The Figure
Workshops | Available
Advance your skillset at capturing the human figure and anatomy in your artwork. Learn about proportion, likeness, techniques of color mixing and composition, then apply what you learn in developing a canvas. Grow your technical ability at figure ground, foreground – middle ground – and background by placing the human figure in space. We’ll begin the first day with drawing from the model, loosening up with some gesture drawings in charcoal or conte crayon. From there, we’ll have a longer pose where we add in color with washes of acrylic and/or oil paint, developing use of color and placement of skin values, etc. We will graduate to a long half-day poses which those students who want to capture the figure in a painting medium can switch to their oil or acrylic paints. Demonstrations will be given by Vicky throughout the two days of poses. This workshop will change the way you interpret the figure!
- An additional model fee will apply based on the model's sitting fee and the number of students enrolled.
One 18” X 24” newsprint pad
One 18" X 24" charcoal/pastel pad
One set of conte crayons – terracotta, sepia/burnt umber, grey, white
Charcoal pencils soft and medium leads
A set of acrylic paint (Windsor & Newton - titanium white, cadmium yellow medium, ochre, cadmium red medium, pthalo green, hunter/sap green, thalo blue, ultramarine blue, prussian blue, burnt umber, purple, payne's grey
Palette
Water container
Variety of brushes
Two 18" X 24" canvases or canvas sheets
Any questions? Please contact me directly: tjartinc@gmail.com
Vicky Tesmer
Celebrated American artist, Vicky Tesmer, is a practicing professional artist from Chicago. Her work can be seen in collections throughout America, Paris, Egypt and Germany. She is represented by Artfully Walls, Anthropologie and has exhibited throughout Chicago. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied in Versallies, France where she learned techniques of the Renaissance Masters and was classically trained. Her murals and interiors can be seen in countless interiors.
Please visit: www.vickytesmer.com