Open Life Drawing on All Skill Levels, Ages 16 & Up
Drop in and Draw! Three hours of drawing from a live model for a low-low-price. Come to brush up on your skills or work on that portfolio! The poses will range from 1 minute gestures to long poses; nude and clothed model sessions. Models will vary from 1 week to 3 week increments. Bring your own drawing supplies (i.e. Charcoal, drawing board, paper, etc.) Easels, stools, tables and rolling carts are provided. This is not a class. No instruction will be provided. There will be a monitor present to accept payment and facilitate model poses. (Meets in W-6)

The first three Thursdays of every month (7pm-10pm)

Tuition: $10 (College Students with ID @ door and Workhouse Artists)

            $15 (Regular Student Price)

ATTENTION: THIS CLASS WILL NOT BE HELD ON THURSDAY JULY 4TH.

Intermediate to Advanced, Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Jon deMartin

This workshop offers the artist a thorough study of both long and short pose drawing.  The long pose will allow the student to process and implement the principles learned during the short poses, beginning with the ‘action’ and ending with the ‘modeling of form’. Every morning we will begin with one hour of short poses concentrating on specific objectives, which will be reviewed and demonstrated in class.  Newsprint will be the preferred paper for the short poses.  The remaining mornings and afternoons will be devoted to the long pose, which will last for the duration of the workshop.The basis of the workshop is to build a solidly constructed three-dimensional figure using line as preparation for the modeling of form with gradations of light, half tone & shadow.  We will endeavor to build a foundation of knowledge so the artist can look for things as opposed to looking at things. The underlying goal is to give artists a deep understanding and appreciation of how line can construct three-dimensional volumes in space. This capability will help the artist to draw, paint and sculpt, from both life and the imagination. The instructor will present material in the form of demonstrations and historical references as a practical application to life drawing.These principles and demonstration drawings can be seen in deMartin’s book ‘Drawing Atelier the figure, how to draw in the classical style’.  To see examples of the instructors work, go to JondeMartin.com and Instagram.

Fall Quarter: 3 days

Begins Friday September 13th, 9am - 5pm each day

Tuition: $485

Location: W-6, 607

Jon deMartin is among the leading figurative artists working today and has taught life drawing and painting for more than twenty-years at the most prestigious academies and ateliers in the country.  Among them are the Arts Students League, the New York Academy of Art, the Grand Central Academy of Art, the Janus Collaborative School of Art, Studio Incamminati, and the Parsons School of Design.  He has exhibited at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, the John Pence gallery, the Arnot Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Florence Griswald Museum, and the Beijing World Art Museum, featured in the exhibit ‘Contemporary American Realism’.