Scheduled Workshops, Courses and Demos

The Figure With A Thousand Faces:  Myths, Memes and the Life Model

Comox Valley Art Gallery.  Four Wednesday Evening classes February/7/14/21/28

Course Description 

Classes will start with a brief slide show and then proceed to two hours of drawing from a nude model.  Our interest will be in studying and representing iconic poses that have been repeated, often for millennia, and that may be steeped with meaning.  Our model will strike poses both sacred and secular, from the sublime to the ridiculous, representing gods, saints, martyrs, angels, clowns, kings, despots, cover boys and girls and recurring characters from stage and film.  By drawing these poses participants might spend some time considering where, how and why such poses manifest themselves.  As well as enjoying the drawing process, participants might subsequently find they look at and draw figures with new perspectives.

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You can preview or review course material at these links:

class one   Class two  Class Three  Class Four
  

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Watercolour Landscape Templates, The Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre

8 classes: Wednesday afternoons February 8/15/22/29 and March 7/14/21/28 1:00- 3:30 pm

Visit the TOSH's website and instruction page HERE for more information and other workshop and course offerings.

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Drawing: The Basics, North Island College Continuing Education

Six Classes: Monday evenings February 13/20/27/, and March 5/12/19 2012,  6:30-9:30pm

Course Description 

In this course you will explore basic drawing techniques that will allow you to accurately draw what you see with line and then render light and shade on form with shading and hatching.  Informal perspective and measuring of angles and proportions will be considered; modular drawing, planar drawing, shading and separating the effect of local colour from light and shade on form.  Subject matter will include still life, architecture, machinery, the face and the figure from plaster casts and the nude model.  Rather than simply look at the fine arts, a variety of drawing applications will be considered in the course, for example: how drawing in box modules relates to modelling in 3d programs and how drawing is employed in film and television and animation. Clive will begin each class with a slide presentation of prepared images to demonstrate the session’s exercises.  Class material consisting of the visual presentation material and notes will be posted on a course blog available under 'instruction at Clive’s website:  www.clivepowsey.com

You can preview or review course material at these links below:

Introduction    Class One   Class Two  Class Three Class Four  Class Five  Class Six  Further Material

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Light and Shade in Watercolour Painting, North Island College Continuing Education

Five Classes: Wednesday evenings, March 21/28 and April 4/11/18 6:30 - 9:30pm

This is an introductory painting course using watercolour paint to understand the painting process.  We'll paint from still life and figurative reference predominately, moving to landscape. Some basic drawing and perspective techniques will be studied at first, followed by watercolour painting techniques, initially executed in monochrome. We will learn how to distinguish local colour from the effects of light and shadow, and how to create form and drama in painting by designing with light and shadow. 

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Further Techniques in Watercolour Painting, North Island College Continuing Education

Four Classes: Wednesday evenings, April 25 and May 2/9/16

 This course will review the contents of Light and Shade in Watercolour Painting and continue to use a classic trinity of subjects for our painting: still life arrangements, the nude figure, and landscape reference.  Participants will bring their own reference to paint after warm up exercises and we’ll look at watercolour painting techniques such as wet on wet, dry on wet, dry brush. The course will entail the painting of more complex subject matter in longer painting sessions.