There are some group exercises and improvisations, but individual attention is stressed. Dramatic materials include scenes, monologues, and poetry. The course is open to both beginning and advanced students. The more advanced students proceed to character work, text analysis, the consideration of time and space, and they develop one classical role. Through lectures, slide presentations and demonstrations, students learn the fundamental ideas embodied in contemporary, modern, and old master drawings.
Stress is placed on an approach to the figure in terms of composition.
Students are introduced to a wide range of aesthetic ideas and are encouraged to develop a personal vision. Students will draw from the model during all sessions, beginning with shorter poses and then moving on to longer more sustained studies. This course is for beginners and more advanced students. Figure sculpture is explored in such a way that students gain the knowledge and skills they need to work from the model. Through lectures and demonstrations students are introduced to clay modelling tools and techniques, proportion systems, useful anatomical concepts, planar structure, and the use of light and shadow to model form.