016 - Cast Drawing & Painting (Graissaille) (Room 202)
(introductory - intermediate) - Robert Zeller
Saturday: Time: 10am - 1pm and/or 2pm - 5pm
January 24th - April 18th (No Class March 21st)

$450 (Half-day) = $450 Tuition (3 CEUs - Twelve 3-hour Sessions)
$850 (Full-day) = $850 Tuition (6 CEUs - Twelve 6-hour Sessions)


A.M. Session:
This class is not about “drawing statues.” Cast drawing, when practiced academically, provides a means to improve radically one’s drawing ability within a short period of time. Historically, great figurative draftsmen have utilized these methods that combined both perceptual and conceptual elements. This class fits within that tradition of High Realism.

P.M. Session:
Utilizing the skills taught in the A.M. Session, the students will apply the same methods of shape and form creating a 10- value oil grissaille.

3 basic techniques will be taught:

“Wipe out method”- wiping in the light mass of a painting by removing wet paint from a still-wet toned surface, with a rag or brush.

Chiascurro is adding/grouping a light mass via lead white oil paint in various opacity/thickness over a dry, dark background. This creates an incredible luminescence in the painting, when overpainted with colored oils.

10 value scale Students will learn to control a full range of values over a mid toned ground.

The following will be pursued over ten weeks:
- Developing a quick and fluid accuracy utilizing perceptual ability
- Cultivate a conceptual sense of surface form
- Learn control of a 10-step value scale
- Develop an understanding of how the underpainting dictates the overpainting

In both sessions, Mr Zeller will demonstrate concepts for the group as well as provide individual instruction. Students will initially focus on accuracy of shapes, followed by a more conceptual “turning of form.” Optional homework assignments will supplement the in-class exercises and explore a variety of drawing media. PLEASE NOTE: You do not have to register for both sections. You may take the session(s) that best address the type of instruction you wish to receive.

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