Painting The Figure
Workshops | This program is completed
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. Eventually, we’ll graduate to one pose captured in acrylic or oil paint. There will be demonstrations given by the instructor in each medium. This workshop will change the way you interpret the figure.
- An additional model fee will apply based on the number of students enrolled.
One 18” X 24” newsprint pad
One set of conte crayons – terracotta, black, white, grey and umber
Charcoal pencils soft and medium leads
12 set acrylic paints or 12 set of oil paints (if using oil – turpentine and linseed oil needed, also)
One 12” X 16” canvas board
One 18” X 24” canvas board
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