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Lessons in drawing people – action, the portrait or the figure

"What do the students learn?" "All the basics" - Kathy Burke
The studio has changed. It now has a window that looks out over Notre-Dame Cathedral. Photo coming.

 

Participants do brief exercices (3-5 minutes) to learn to capture pose, expression, light...

 

 

 

Team-building: Each person poses for the group, then chooses the next model. Participants view their colleagues in a new context, and "take home" a different way of seeing.

 

 

  • Portraits


  "The face is made up of triangles..."

 

 

 

 

 

  • Portrait-painting as an event — please click.

 

 

The former mayor of the artist's arrondissement

 

• Kathy is preparing an exhibit of 100 portraits of well-known Parisians

 

 
  • Life-drawing

 

 

 

Life-drawing, a very Parisian experience

Ten-second poses to seize movement and contour, 20-minute poses for volume, shadow, perspective, foreshortening, very quick exercises for expression... 

 

 

  • Another possibility: sketching landscape, at Notre-Dame (description and photos coming)

 

 

• Practical aspects

° Small groups (5-12 participants) use easels; larger groups sit and use boards

° Three hours

 

 

• Costs :

° For the artist, 500€ (up to 12 participants) for three hours of instruction, materials included (special crayon and 50 sheets of paper per person). For a model (for life drawing), add 60 €.

° For PEF : This lesson will probably be part of a larger program. We establish each budget separately. .

 

 

Credits: lesson / Claude Abron ;  other photos / supplied by the artist

 

 

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