This class is for more advanced students who have had prior drawing and painting experience. Students work in oil from a live model. The same principles explored in academic painting will be studied as they relate to the human form. Students paint on location at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate. Landscape genre is studies as a venue for a unique emotional expression.
Students learn to express plasticity, space, light and air through color relationships.
This class emphasizes tonal and value-based drawing techniques. Students will draw first from simple man-made objects and advance to the more complex form of the human body. Students will learn the basics of composition, proportions, light versus shade and reflection versus shadow. In Moscow worked primarily on municipal commissions designing architectural and sculptural projects for the city. Winner of several awards for architecture, monument and sculpture designs including the Moscow Museum of Music.