Painting & Drawing - Figurative
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Portrait in Clay
Bren Sibilsky
Workshop ID: 3D1000
Date: Thu-Sat • June 10-12
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Clay • Level: Open to All Levels
Member Tuition: $355+ materials/model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $380 + materials/model fees
Concept
Notable sculptor and artist Bren Sibilsky guides you in the creation of a clay portrait in relief or bust. This class is for the beginning student or those who would like to advance their artistry in the genre.
Experience
Your clay portrait begins with building a mass on an armature. Then gradually sculpt the face, as Bren teaches you how to recognize its basic forms, planes and symmetry. She will also cover basic anatomy and proportions of the human head. Once completed, your sculpted portrait will be prepared for bisque firing in our kiln, to be picked up at a later date, or you may use air-dry clay and take your creation with you.
Instructor
Bren is an internationally recognized sculptor and painter, with work in many collections throughout North America and Europe. Her work has been juried into shows including Manhattan Arts International’s Her Story. She has exhibited at The Miller Art Museum, Koehline Museum, and the Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is represented in galleries in Arizona, Wisconsin and New York. She has intensive study in the figure with international sculptor Hanna Jubran and bronze casting with Mary and Ken Davidson. www.brensculpture.com
Life Drawing
Emmett John
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Workshop ID: PD1017
Date: Mon-Wed • June 28-30
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Pencil, Charcoal • Level: Open to All Levels
Member Tuition: $320+ model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fees
See Supply List
Concept
Gain confidence in drawing the figure--with help from the Baroque Masters--in graphite pencil and vine charcoal. Utilize the natural design elements that make a figure drawing exciting and expressive, and finish this workshop with a deeper appreciation of what goes into quality drawing and how to recognize these factors.
Experience
Emmett begins each day with a demonstration, illustrating a particular theme or approach. Then, create gesture drawings of models in one-minute poses, enabling you to see and learn the essential movements and major forms of the human body. Poses will be extended to 20 minutes for you to draw the remainder of the day. Emmett will give both individual and group demos during the day, with an emphasis on how figure drawing relates to your process as a whole.
Instructor
Emmett Johns has been working intensively with pastels and oils for over 20 years. He is nationally recognized for his landscapes, portraits and large-scale abstracts. Structural integrity and capturing the deeper essence of a particular place or person in a free, spontaneous style are of the utmost importance to him. He maintains galleries at the Settlement Shops in Fish Creek and a winter setting in New Mexico. www.emmettjohns.com
Figure Painting: Expressive & Gestural
Bill Buchman
Workshop ID: PD1028
Date: Thu-Sat • July 15-17
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $320 + model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fees
Concept
Join a world-renowned master of the figure as he teaches with an emphasis on unusual mixed media techniques and materials. Experience new ways to paint and draw the nude figure that are easy and free flowing, yet successfully pleasing. Savoir Faire Artist Supplies will provide us with materials and papers from Sennelier, Cretacolor and Fabriano.
Experience
Working from a live model, Bill will demonstrate ways of rendering the figure that will expand your artistic skills and enable you to achieve a higher expressive level with courage, freshness, and freedom, enabling a world of new artistic possibilities. Individual attention is given throughout the course.
Instructor
Bill Buchman is an accomplished artist, art educator, and lecturer who conducts workshops on both the creative process and on figure drawing. He has published books (Expressive Figure Drawing) and DVDs on these topics. Bill studied painting and drawing with renowned teacher Victor D’Amico at the Institute of Modern Art, NY, and also with leading American figurative painter Fletcher Martin at the Albany Institute of Art, NY. Buchman’s brightly-colored, spontaneous abstractions and his expressive figure drawings may be seen in private and public collections in Denmark, Sweden, England and the US. www.billbuchman.com
Drawing the Portrait for Beginners
Katie Musolff
Workshop ID: PD1043
Date: Thu-Sat • Aug 26-28
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Pencil, Charcoal • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $320 + model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fees
See Supply List
Concept
Conquer the intimidation that many people feel while attempting to draw the human face. You will first draw each other, then move on to creating self portraits from mirrors, and then finally, work from a live model. Keeping it simple, the class will deal only with pencil and charcoal on paper. Working primarily from life, learn how to pose and light a model, observe proportions, and capture a likeness. Time is also set aside to work from photos.
Experience
There will be many demos to expose and explore the process of making a portrait. You should expect to finish at least one live portrait and have a good start on the project from your reference photo, with the confidence to finish it on your own. In the future, you should be able to approach portraiture with new confidence.
Instructor
Katie Musolff received a BFA in Painting from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Her teaching credits include both painting classes and continuing education programs at MIAD, workshops at the Cedarburg Cultural Center, and private lessons, instructing on basic drawing, portrait painting, figure drawing, and color theory. Katie shows her work nationally, and is represented by Elaine Erickson Gallery in Milwaukee. A full-time painter, she works out of her studio in Bayview, near Milwaukee. www.katiemusolff.com
The Figure in Watercolor
Donna Brown
Workshop ID: WC1019
Date: Thu-Sat • Aug 26-28
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Watercolor • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $320 + model fee
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fee
Concept
Working from both a live model and photographs, students will create compositions using the figure as both a main subject and as a component of a painting. The focus of the workshop is to represent the figure freely, without feeling intimidated, or over-producing an exact likeness.
Experience
Quick exercises with your brush will familiarize you with movement and gesture. Using a clothed model, we will learn to see and paint simplified shapes and values. This technique can also be applied to reference photographs.
Instructor
Donna Brown is a professional artist living in Door County. Although primarily self-taught, she studied printmaking and painting at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and the Printmaking Center at the College of Santa Fe. She has Signature membership in Watercolor West and the Northwest Watercolor Society. Her work has been juried into numerous national exhibitions and is included in the watercolor books Splash 5 and The Artistic Touch 2. Her White Barn Gallery is located in Baileys Harbor. www.whitebarngallery.com
10 Steps to a Successful Pastel Portrait
Ken Tiessen
Workshop ID: PD1052
Date: Wed-Sat • Sept 29-30 Oct 1-2
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Pastel • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $425 plus model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $450 plus model fees
See Supply List
Concept
Working from photographs as well as a live model, learn the steps to create a successful portrait in pastel including measuring for accurate proportion, using basic shapes to draw features and likenesses, and using a limited palette to model and finish.
Experience
Ken’s goal is to build your confidence by working in an environment that is encouraging, fun, and easy. By beginning with Ken’s demonstrated simple steps, and utilizing provided photographs, you are prepared to meet the challenges of a live pose the last two days of the workshop. Discussion and individual attention assure you of learning the correct steps to produce a satisfying portrait.
Instructor
Ken Tiessen earned a BFA with Honors in the Arts from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, CA. Ken has been a freelance artist, pastel portrait artist, and illustrator for 25 years. Since his graduation from college, he has taught from his Peoria, IL studio and at the community college level. Painting with both oil and pastel - in a style that blends reaIistic imagery with Impressionist color - Ken travels to Colorado and Arizona each year to create landscapes en plein air. www.kentiessenart.com
Portrait in Clay
Bren Sibilsky
Workshop ID: 3D1000
Date: Thu-Sat • June 10-12
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Clay • Level: Open to All Levels
Member Tuition: $355+ materials/model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $380 + materials/model fees
Concept
Notable sculptor and artist Bren Sibilsky guides you in the creation of a clay portrait in relief or bust. This class is for the beginning student or those who would like to advance their artistry in the genre.
Experience
Your clay portrait begins with building a mass on an armature. Then gradually sculpt the face, as Bren teaches you how to recognize its basic forms, planes and symmetry. She will also cover basic anatomy and proportions of the human head. Once completed, your sculpted portrait will be prepared for bisque firing in our kiln, to be picked up at a later date, or you may use air-dry clay and take your creation with you.
Instructor
Bren is an internationally recognized sculptor and painter, with work in many collections throughout North America and Europe. Her work has been juried into shows including Manhattan Arts International’s Her Story. She has exhibited at The Miller Art Museum, Koehline Museum, and the Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is represented in galleries in Arizona, Wisconsin and New York. She has intensive study in the figure with international sculptor Hanna Jubran and bronze casting with Mary and Ken Davidson. www.brensculpture.com
Life Drawing
Emmett John
s Workshop ID: PD1017
Date: Mon-Wed • June 28-30
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Pencil, Charcoal • Level: Open to All Levels
Member Tuition: $320+ model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fees
See Supply List
Concept
Gain confidence in drawing the figure--with help from the Baroque Masters--in graphite pencil and vine charcoal. Utilize the natural design elements that make a figure drawing exciting and expressive, and finish this workshop with a deeper appreciation of what goes into quality drawing and how to recognize these factors.
Experience
Emmett begins each day with a demonstration, illustrating a particular theme or approach. Then, create gesture drawings of models in one-minute poses, enabling you to see and learn the essential movements and major forms of the human body. Poses will be extended to 20 minutes for you to draw the remainder of the day. Emmett will give both individual and group demos during the day, with an emphasis on how figure drawing relates to your process as a whole.
Instructor
Emmett Johns has been working intensively with pastels and oils for over 20 years. He is nationally recognized for his landscapes, portraits and large-scale abstracts. Structural integrity and capturing the deeper essence of a particular place or person in a free, spontaneous style are of the utmost importance to him. He maintains galleries at the Settlement Shops in Fish Creek and a winter setting in New Mexico. www.emmettjohns.com
Figure Painting: Expressive & Gestural
Bill Buchman
Workshop ID: PD1028
Date: Thu-Sat • July 15-17
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $320 + model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fees
Concept
Join a world-renowned master of the figure as he teaches with an emphasis on unusual mixed media techniques and materials. Experience new ways to paint and draw the nude figure that are easy and free flowing, yet successfully pleasing. Savoir Faire Artist Supplies will provide us with materials and papers from Sennelier, Cretacolor and Fabriano.
Experience
Working from a live model, Bill will demonstrate ways of rendering the figure that will expand your artistic skills and enable you to achieve a higher expressive level with courage, freshness, and freedom, enabling a world of new artistic possibilities. Individual attention is given throughout the course.
Instructor
Bill Buchman is an accomplished artist, art educator, and lecturer who conducts workshops on both the creative process and on figure drawing. He has published books (Expressive Figure Drawing) and DVDs on these topics. Bill studied painting and drawing with renowned teacher Victor D’Amico at the Institute of Modern Art, NY, and also with leading American figurative painter Fletcher Martin at the Albany Institute of Art, NY. Buchman’s brightly-colored, spontaneous abstractions and his expressive figure drawings may be seen in private and public collections in Denmark, Sweden, England and the US. www.billbuchman.com
Drawing the Portrait for Beginners
Katie Musolff
Workshop ID: PD1043
Date: Thu-Sat • Aug 26-28
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Pencil, Charcoal • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $320 + model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fees
See Supply List
Concept
Conquer the intimidation that many people feel while attempting to draw the human face. You will first draw each other, then move on to creating self portraits from mirrors, and then finally, work from a live model. Keeping it simple, the class will deal only with pencil and charcoal on paper. Working primarily from life, learn how to pose and light a model, observe proportions, and capture a likeness. Time is also set aside to work from photos.
Experience
There will be many demos to expose and explore the process of making a portrait. You should expect to finish at least one live portrait and have a good start on the project from your reference photo, with the confidence to finish it on your own. In the future, you should be able to approach portraiture with new confidence.
Instructor
Katie Musolff received a BFA in Painting from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Her teaching credits include both painting classes and continuing education programs at MIAD, workshops at the Cedarburg Cultural Center, and private lessons, instructing on basic drawing, portrait painting, figure drawing, and color theory. Katie shows her work nationally, and is represented by Elaine Erickson Gallery in Milwaukee. A full-time painter, she works out of her studio in Bayview, near Milwaukee. www.katiemusolff.com
The Figure in Watercolor
Donna Brown
Workshop ID: WC1019
Date: Thu-Sat • Aug 26-28
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Watercolor • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $320 + model fee
Non-Member Tuition: $345 + model fee
Concept
Working from both a live model and photographs, students will create compositions using the figure as both a main subject and as a component of a painting. The focus of the workshop is to represent the figure freely, without feeling intimidated, or over-producing an exact likeness.
Experience
Quick exercises with your brush will familiarize you with movement and gesture. Using a clothed model, we will learn to see and paint simplified shapes and values. This technique can also be applied to reference photographs.
Instructor
Donna Brown is a professional artist living in Door County. Although primarily self-taught, she studied printmaking and painting at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and the Printmaking Center at the College of Santa Fe. She has Signature membership in Watercolor West and the Northwest Watercolor Society. Her work has been juried into numerous national exhibitions and is included in the watercolor books Splash 5 and The Artistic Touch 2. Her White Barn Gallery is located in Baileys Harbor. www.whitebarngallery.com
10 Steps to a Successful Pastel Portrait
Ken Tiessen Workshop ID: PD1052
Date: Wed-Sat • Sept 29-30 Oct 1-2
Time: 9am-4pm
Medium: Pastel • Level: Beginner
Member Tuition: $425 plus model fees
Non-Member Tuition: $450 plus model fees
See Supply List
Concept
Working from photographs as well as a live model, learn the steps to create a successful portrait in pastel including measuring for accurate proportion, using basic shapes to draw features and likenesses, and using a limited palette to model and finish.
Experience
Ken’s goal is to build your confidence by working in an environment that is encouraging, fun, and easy. By beginning with Ken’s demonstrated simple steps, and utilizing provided photographs, you are prepared to meet the challenges of a live pose the last two days of the workshop. Discussion and individual attention assure you of learning the correct steps to produce a satisfying portrait.
Instructor
Ken Tiessen earned a BFA with Honors in the Arts from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, CA. Ken has been a freelance artist, pastel portrait artist, and illustrator for 25 years. Since his graduation from college, he has taught from his Peoria, IL studio and at the community college level. Painting with both oil and pastel - in a style that blends reaIistic imagery with Impressionist color - Ken travels to Colorado and Arizona each year to create landscapes en plein air. www.kentiessenart.com