Studio Art Class for Adults
Registration Required
Time: 8:30 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.
Fee: $225
Place: Center for Art & Education
Students will draw, paint, or sculpt for 32 hours from a live, professional model. Working from a long-term, sustained pose, students will have the opportunity to grapple with unfamiliar aesthetic, technical, and conceptual challenges; work large; and take their work to an advanced stage toward completion.
The organizers of this event seek to offer, in Northwestern Arkansas, a rare opportunity: a studio environment for representational artists of all levels who want to strengthen their observational skills while working from life.
Working alongside two professional artists, students will be exposed to those artists' methods, techniques, and decision making processes.
Students will be immersed in an environment that facilitates concentration, sound decisions, and hard work. The seminar will be run in an orderly, organized, and professional manner in order to create such a studio environment.
Wednesday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Students will be assigned a space where they will work the four days of the seminar. Students and instructors will draw, paint, or sculpt from the model; no formal instruction will be given. Students will be able to observe and interact with Janet and Jason as they work and resolve the problems they encounter in creating a work of art.
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
One instructor will work with each student in the morning; the other instructor will work with each student in the afternoon. Thus, each student will receive two one-on-one critiques.
Each student is responsible for bringing his or her art materials, including an easel or small table.
Media traditionally associated with representational drawing, painting, and sculpture are preferred. For example, these media include graphite, charcoal, pen and ink, pastels, oil paint, watercolor, acrylic, and clay.
On the first day, Wednesday, in the morning, the instructors will assign a work space to each student. Work spaces will not change during the seminar. Students will draw, paint, or sculpt from the same spot for four days.
