Summer, Fall, Spring. The first part of the course deals with the nude and the second part deals with the portrait.
Students paint directly from life each week.
Paintings range from one to three days in length, and a minimum of 8 hours outside work is required each week. The lecture part of the class involves both critiques of work done in and out of class and lectures designed to put the work into an historical and contemporary perspective. The slide talks will include particular painters and issues concerning the figure. Possible viewing of films on Frank Auerbach, Antonio Lopez Garcia, and Lucien Freud. This course brings into focus the direct and indirect relationships that exist between drawing and painting.