Dynamic Rhythm & Movement in Figure Drawing and Composition
Dynamic Rhythm & Movement in Figure Drawing and Composition
Saturday and Sunday, Sept 11th & 12th
Time:11:30am-1:30pm, 2:30-5:30pm
Instructor: Adam Miller
A 2 DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP
WITH A MODERN MASTER
Dynamic Figure Drawing begins with great movement and rhythmic design.
In Dynamic Rhythm and Movement in Figure Drawing and Composition, contemporary master Adam Miller will help you learn to make figure drawings and compositions that are full of rhythm and life.
In order to give the figure a higher degree of believability, students should begin with considering major masses, anatomical surface form, and rhythm. By slight changes in emphasis in movements of muscles masses in the body- a complete movement of the entire figure from head to toe. As in the work of Michelangelo, Bernini, Giambologna and Peter Paul Rubens.
Often, when students begin to draw the figure from an academic perspective, they use the block-in method. This approach to the figure is rooted in abstraction, from a purely shape oriented perspective. The net result is that most academic figure drawings lack movement. Some think that this is because they’re too polished, too perfect. Rather, the lack of movement is due the fact that they contain too many decisions based on inaccurate observation.
This workshop will focus on the introduction of rhythm and movement to add “life” in your figure drawing and in compositions. Join us for a 10-hour intensive with one of the best figurative artists working today.
Workshops are recorded and available for multiple viewings for a one month duration after the workshop has ended.
Students will draw from a high resolution photographic references of a studio model. We will start the day with quick sketches of short drawings focusing on rhythm, gesture and construction, working our way up to a longer drawing. Students will also observe live demonstration from the instructor, as well as receive direct feedback and critique from the instructor at multiple points during the creation of their own drawing. The skills developed in this workshop will enable students to make their own drawings from life or photographic reference containing rhythm and vitality. These skills are also essential in making paintings.
Born in 1979 in Oregon, Adam Miler began an apprenticeship to artist Allen Jones at 13 years old. At 16 , he was accepted to the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. He continued his studies under Michael John Angel , also in Florence. For the next four years, Miller traveled throughout Europe studying the work of the Baroque and Mannerist painters. In New York, he studied with Nelson Shanks at the Art Student’s League.
One of our longest tenured workshop faculty, Miller has taught intermittently for the Teaching Studios of Art® since we opened in 2009.
His work has been commissioned by Robert Pamplin Jr., the Chairman of the Board of the Portland Art Museum, former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson, and Eric Rhodes, publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur. He was commissioned to paint the official memorial of the Quebec Secessionist Movement’s anniversary. with the painting “Quebec”
Miller has exhibited extensively in both the U.S and Europe, and recently Asia as well.
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