In Figure Drawing-Summer Intensive, students will learn how to draw figures in the academic tradition.

In this four-day course , students will:

• Learn how the figure is made of up of simple geometric shapes and planes.

• Learn a system of drawing and painting that includes rhythm, proportion, structure, form and color in a manner that is easy to grasp for artists of all levels of experience..

5 essential concepts will be taught:

1. Gesture and rhythm of the pose

2. Basic proportions and geometry of the figure

3. Blocking-in using anatomy and a specific understanding of light and shadow

4. Modeling form

5. Finishing and refining touches

DRAWING SUPPLIES

•Drawing board

•A pad of Strathmore 400 series drawing paper, 18 x 24

•At least two of each: HB, H, 2H and 4H graphite pencils (I like the Staedtler brand that are painted blue and black at the back end…the ones made of real wood. Oher brands are fine though).

•Gray Kneaded eraser

•Tombow MONO Zero Refillable eraser. Here’s a link if you are not familiar with them… http://www.dickblick.com/items/21576-9330/

•X-acto knife or box cutter and extra blades for sharpening pencils (you can also bring sandpaper in addition to the blades)

Robert Zeller founded The Teaching Studios of Art® in 2009. He received a BFA from the Boston Museum School and Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. He is the recipient of two Posey Fellowships, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and he has curated and/or exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Houston, Paris, and New York.
Zeller is both a visual artist and a writer. He has written two books on art for The Monacelli Press/Phaidon — the upcoming New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting (pub 2023-2024?- still in production) and The Figurative Artist's Handbook (2017). He also wrote the chapter on the permanent Surrealist photographic collection of The National Gallery of Victoria/ Melbourne Australia for the catalog/book accompanying the upcoming exhibition Photography: Real and Imagined (2023), which opens this fall. He has also written opinion pieces and exhibition reviews for The Brooklyn Rail and other online art magazines/blogs.