New FREE Drawing Video: Straight Line Block-In Demo
Sadie Jernigan Valeri
http://www.sadievaleri.com/blog/2014/9/8/new-drawing-video-straight-line-block-in-demo.html
This is the exercise I give my students:
- Set up a brown paper bag, crumpled and twisted gently. Include a single egg.
- Draw only STRAIGHT LINES and NO SHADING.
- Work small, just 4-5 inches across per drawing, and put in mainly just the longest, most major lines and only a few secondary lines - just until it starts looking like the shape and gesture of the bag. Spend no more than 30 minutes on a drawing.
- Turn the bag and move the egg to make a new composition and start another drawing.
- I am working large with heavy, dark lines so the camera can record the drawing. You should work SMALL and with VERY LIGHT LINES
I teach a private Online Class on Facebook where I teach the fundamental principles of Classical Drawing and Indirect Painting:
http://www.sadievaleri.com/videos/
Sadie Valeri: Intro Series in 8 Flexible Sessions
Daytime classes offered 6 days per week
Still Life, Cast, Portrait, Figure, Drawing or Painting
$440 for 8 Flex sessions within 2 months
$330/mo for 2 Flex Sessions per week
September 2014 Registration NOW OPEN
An introduction to the fundamental building blocks of Classical methods, with the option to focus on Drawing or Painting
$440 for 8 Flex sessions within 2 months
$330/mo for 2 Flex Sessions per week
September 2014 Registration NOW OPEN
Sadie teaches the painting technique she uses for her own still lifes: The layered, Indirect method of oil painting developed by the Dutch Masters of 17th century. This method of applying many thin layers of oil paint on a smooth wood panel gives the artist incredible control for achieving effects of stunning realism.
Sadie Valeri: Cast Drawing
$440 for 8 Flex sessions within 2 months
$330/mo for 2 Flex Sessions per week
September 2014 Registration NOW OPEN
“Casts” are plaster reproductions of historic sculptures, and studying them was the standard for art education in the 19th century French Academic tradition.
Students start with a series of graphite pencil drawing exercises designed to develop the perception of values (dark and light) and proportion (height, width and shape), using 19th-century academic methods.
James Edmonds: Introduction to Classical Figure Drawing
Saturdays 1:30 - 4:30
8 weeks
Sept 6 - Oct 25
$440
Tuesdays and Thursday evenings 6pm-9pm
8 sessions in 4 weeks
Sept 2 - 25
$440
Registration Now Open for Fall 2014
Students work from a long multi-session pose to create a realistic figure drawing in the classical academic tradition.
Approaching figure drawing with traditional academic methods will strengthen your drawing ability whether you are an absolute beginner or an experienced artist.
Felicia Forte: Portrait Drawing: Monthly Ongoing
Monday Evenings, 6:30 - 9:30pm
$220/month, based on a four week month
Registration now open for new students Oct./Nov.
Students in this class will draw from the model in a progression of poses that will start with quick sketch using charcoal on newsprint and end in a nine hour drawing using graphite on archival paper. This progression will repeat twice a year, once January-May and next September-December. Some of the quicksketch sessions will include figure as well as portrait. Felicia teaches a tonal style of drawing that lend’s itself to learning representational painting. In this class you will discuss and practice different strategies for accomplishing your goals. Felicia will challenge you to correctly observe and record the fundamentals: shapes, values, and edges.
Wednesday Evenings, 6:30 - 9:30pm
$220/month, based on a four week month
Registration now open for new students, Oct./Nov.
In Direct Painting, also known as Alla Prima, a work is completed in a single session while the paint is still wet. Direct Painting is a stimulating method which teaches you to be present in every brush stroke, focusing on only the essentials, ultimately teaching you great dexterity and control. In this class you will discuss and practice different strategies for accomplishing your goals. Felicia will challenge you to correctly observe and record the fundamentals: shapes (drawing) values, edges and color, while at the same time encourage you to develop your own language of abstraction. Felicia may give you special exercises and drills based on the needs of the class and the individual.
WORKSHOP: Felicia Forte: Alla Prima Portrait Painting
4 Days 10am - 5pm
January 28-31, 2015
$520
Over the four days of this workshop we will practice a series of excersizes designed to illustrate the fundamentals: monochromatic study, value study in black and white, quick sketch portrait painting. Finally these excersizes will culminate in painting the model using the Zorn palette, a muted version of a primary color palette, allowing you ease in color harmony. I will demonstrate each day of class as well as offer each student personal critique and advise.
5 days, 10am - 5pm
January 5-9, 2015
$625
Learn some new tricks from award winning still life painter, Katherine Stone. Kate will share her four-step process for paint layering and her methodology for creating a work of art that will not yellow, delaminate, crack or peel. With the help of a slideshow of close up photos of her own work, Kate will also share her techniques for creating textural and optical effects.
WORKSHOP: Daniel Keys: Alla Prima Still Life Painting
4 days, 10am - 5pm
January 20-23, 2015
$650
Join us for four days of intensive study with master of “Alla Prima” (single session) painting technique, Daniel Keys.
Each day Daniel will do a demonstration while discussing the skills necessary for creating beautiful still life paintings using alla prima methods.
Following each mornings’ demo, the students will set up still life compositions of their own and paint them from life while receiving one-on-one instruction.