VISUAL ARTS
PROGRAMS

WINTER/SPRING 2010 COURSE CALENDAR

Visual Arts

On Monday evenings (excluding holidays), the Drawing Group holds instructor-less life drawing classes for professional and amateur artists.  We provide the facility, the seating, the model; you bring your own supplies and drawing board.  The classes, with their combination of short and long poses, give artists an opportunity to sharpen their life drawing skills.

Start Date:  ongoing
Time:  Monday 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Fee:  $10 per session

Oil Painting
Instructor: Paul Abeleira

This course will focus on realistic painting techniques in traditional oils. Students will explore both direct “alla prima” and indirect approaches to painting as we create two still life paintings entirely from life. Other areas of focus will include composition, lighting, color mixing, use of mediums and preparation of different grounds.

Thursday evenings 6:00pm – 9:00pm
January 28 – March 18, 2010
Cost $175

Beginners Figure Drawing:
Gesture and shape, figure drawing basics.
Instructor: Hida Behzadi

This course is designed for students with no previous or minimal background in figure drawing.

Using a life model, students will develop the ability to create drawings that reflect a basic understanding of the body impulse, movement, weight, balance and proportion.

Students will get familiar with the setting of a life drawing studio and they will experience drawing with charcoal, charcoal pencil and Lead pencil in large and small formats.

There will be class demonstrations and series of take home assignments. This course will be the foundation for intermediate figure drawing.

Supplies list

18x24 Sketch Pad (Newsprint), you will ned minimum of one Sketch pad per session
Fold Back Clips or Bulldog Clips (x2)
Compressed Charcoal (Brown or Black, Demco or other known brands) Min. of 3 sticks
Charcoal pencil, 4B, matching with the charcoal colour (darker tone)
Art Gum (Staedler Kneadable Eraser)
Pencil: Mars Lumograph box set ranged from HB to 8B (alternatively B2, B4, B6)
Small cutter knife

Saturday afternoons 3:30pm – 6:30pm
January 23 – March 13, 2010
Cost $175


Intermediate Figure Drawing:
Gesture, shape and form, basics of analytical figure drawing, closer study of human head and composition.
Instructor: Hida Behzadi

This course is designed for students who have some figure drawing background or participated in the basic figure drawing course.

During these 8 sessions students will work on both the body and the head structure. They will learn to simplify and solve perspective problems and pay closer attention to form, function and proportions of the body. There will be take home assignments to help student advance their drawing skills.

Students will experience drawing with charcoal and charcoal pencil, lead pencil and brush, pen and ink, in large and small formats.

Supplies List

18x24 Sketch Pad (Newsprint)
Sketch book (8.5x11)
Fold Back Clips or Bulldog Clips (x2)
Compressed Charcoal (Brown or Black, Demco or other known brands) Min. of 3 sticks
Charcoal pencil, 4B, matching with the charcoal colour (darker tone)
Art Gum (Staedler Kneadable Eraser)
Pencil: Mars Lumograph box set ranged from HB to 8B (alternatively B2, B4, B6)
Small cutter knife

Wednesday evenings 6:00pm – 9:00pm
January 27 – March 17, 2010
Cost $175

Abstract Techniques in Acrylics
Instructor: Sarah Cowling

This class is about learning different techniques with acrylics, using colour and texture to create collages and abstract paintings. Drawing skills are not required

Saturday mornings 10:00am – 1:00pm
January 30 – March 20, 2010
Cost $175

Introduction to Model Sculpting
Instructor: Aleid Uhl

Working in clay, the students will learn basic sculpting techniques and get acquainted with the principles and practices of anatomy and the proportions of head, torso and hands of the human figure. By the end of the course, each student will be in a position to proudly lay claim to a number of original works of art.

Saturday mornings 10:00am – 1:00pm
January 23 – March 13, 2010
Cost $250


Sculpting the Human Figure
Instructor: Aleid Uhl

Working in clay, the students will learn a variety of sculpting techniques and get acquainted with the principles and practices of anatomy and the classical proportions of the human figure. The student will work on three assignments focusing on the male and female figure. By the end of the course, each student will be in a position to proudly lay claim to a number of original works of art

Tuesday evenings 6:00pm – 9:00pm
January 26 – March 16, 2010
Cost $250

To register for our winter/spring 2010 courses please click here

WINTER 2010 COURSES

TheWestern Center for Continuing Studies (UWO) in partnership
with The ARTS Project is also offering the following additional courses:

WebSite:
www.uwo.ca/cstudies 

Telephone:
(519) 661-3658

Fax:
(519) 661-3799

The ARTS Project
203 Dundas Street
London ON N6A 1G4
Phone: 519-642-2767
Fax: 519-642-3919
Email: info@artsproject.ca