Recent Drawing Workshop & featured photo
This Workshop was a such a pleasure because of a great group of artists who truly took on the challenge of training their hands and eye. They each arrived with immense focus and we too the jump head first into some 19th century drawing history of various types and styles, learned gestural drawing from life, and then finally the copies of Bargue using Sight-Size. We even had some great local featuring of the Atelier in the photo below for the local Chattanooga PULSE magazine. (* I'm on the left student with me to the right is examining her marks she made from her position further away from easel as she is learning Sight-Size drawing)
These students are my heros, because...the way the Workshop is structured we were only covering the introduction of how to use Sight-Size tools through copying Charles Bargue's drawings. In the 2nd half of the workshop I intended to utilize the initial steps of Sight-Size to teach creating a drawing from life, but these folks asked me to help them take on the challenge of continuing to refine their Bargue copies!
I was delighted by their willingness to challenge their typical way of discerning form and then translate it to paper with this specific approach. They fought through all of the typical mental battles that come with learning a new way of seeing and I am happy to report all of them showed immense progress. The workshop consisted of a mixed level of experience. Some had been drawing for years, several people had drawn very little in their life, and I loved that I had a software designer looking to understand optical fidelity at a deeper level!
This post is a thank you to the students for attending and for the honor of welcoming me into your intellectual & artistic space to offer a new way to comprehend and depict form.
Well done crew! And Thank you Townsend Atelier!
Looking forward to the next one. Perspective dates and requests can be made on my Contact form Page.
- Laura -