DRAWING & PAINTING : FIGURATIVE INSTENSIVE @ CAI : FALL SEMESTER : 2012

INTRODUCING A NEW CLASS @ CALIFORNIA ART INSTITUTE : FALL SEMESTER : 2012

TRADITIONAL FIGURATIVE DRAWING & PAINTING

THURSDAYS : 3 PM - 10 PM : OCT 11 - DEC 13

This class will offer a discourse on the principles, techniques, and practices of the Traditional Arts, namely the Greek and Roman aesthetic and philosophical traditions and their impact on Western Realism from the 16th Century, through the High Baroque and onward to present-day. We will be working towards an acknowledgment of the experiences and methodologies of our predecessors and a willingness to honor their discoveries. I will also do my best to pass on what I learned through my studies with Yuqi Wang @ Andreeva Academy, at Studio Escalier (The Next Eclectics) and at Ecole Albert Defois with Ted Seth Jacobs (Restructured Realism). The class will be split between drawing and painting equally six hours a week for ten weeks. I will introduce many different types of exercises based on the elements and fundamentals of traditional practice in the life class. The length of the poses will vary according to the exercises being stressed. There will be thorough demonstrations and lecturing with a lot of individual critique. There will be a long demonstration early in the course, which takes you through the technical process of building a figure drawing step by step.

"I do not teach STYLE. I do not teach an AESTHETIC.  I teach how to SEE."

Figure Study of Magda, France, 2010

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SOME PRINCIPLES AND EXERCISES THAT WILL BE DISCUSSED:

INNER MOVEMENT CURVE - 'LINE OF FIRE'

PRINCIPLES OF THE BLOCK-IN

ROUNDING FORM

PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN STRUCTURE

GESTURAL ARRANGEMENT & EXPRESSION

ARRANGING FORM TO ACTION

STRUCTURAL PATHWAYS &

MODELING FORM ON THE INSIDE

PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT

COLOR THEORY

LIGHT KEY

POSTER STUDY

PLANE OF LIGHT STUDY

CLASSICAL PAINTING METHODOLOGIES

 TRAPPING THE INNER MOVEMENT CURVE TO THE ENVELOPE
 

EARLY TO ADVANCED BLOCK-IN APPROACHES

SIMPLIFIED ROUNDING SCHEMATIC OF THE BACK (PROGRESSION)

 ROUNDING SCHEMATIC OF THE UPPER ARM (PROGRESSION)

ROUNDING SCHEMATIC OF THE UPPER TORSO

EXAMPLES OF POSTER STUDIES

EXAMPLES OF PLANE OF LIGHT STUDIES

Study After Pontormo, France, 2010

Study After Pontormo, France, 2012

Portrait of Magda, France, 2010

Figure Study of Magda, France, 2009

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Beautiful sketch of me doing a demo by Dave Zaboski

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A COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS BY TED SETH JACOBS

Drapery Study

 Two Japanese Women

 Studies After Michelangelo

Study of a Young Woman

Two Women on a Couch 

Guia Montenola

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Bouguereau Atelier

Adolph W. Bouguereau, The First Mourning, 1888

(Bouguereau was highly influenced by Guido Reni, one of the most accomplished 

Italian High-Baroque painters - BELOW)

Guido Reni, Hercules on the Pyre (High-Baroque, Italian)

Guido Reni, Preparatory Study for Hercules and the Hydra (High-Baroque, Italian)

Guido Reni, Atalanta and Hippomenes (High-Baroque, Italian)

Guido Reni, Christ Study (High-Baroque, Italian)

Guido Reni, Crowned Love and Profane Love (High-Baroque, Italian)

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Rounded forms)

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