The Figure in its Environment
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Margaret’s step-by-step method will help the student simplify the complicated. Students will explore drawing, composition, anatomy, proportion, value, color, and medium application. Emphasis will be on the model’s relationship to his/her environment. Students will work from a model the first two days. At the end of the second day, class will have a 15-minute photo shoot with the model to capture the model in motion in her environment, utilizing these photos to work from for the remainder of the workshop. Students may use phones to photograph the model but should work from something larger such as a tablet or hard-copy print. www.margaretdyer.com
Margaret Dyer
In the June 2002 issue of The Artist's Magazine, the author wrote: "Dyer is adamant about what she wants to portray: beautiful-not overtly provocative-figures in action. She tries to avoid languid, sentimental posturing, and prefers to show her model in an unguarded moment, when she's not worrying about the 'right pose.' Dyer's attention is caught by telling gestures, such as a direct gaze or a hand on a hip… Above all, Dyer seeks to establish an atmosphere and mood particular to the developing painting."
Atlanta based Margaret Dyer is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America and is in the Masters Circle of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS). Best of Show in the 2021 American Impressionist Society Associate Members Exhibit, Best Impressionist Painting Award in the 2019 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Margaret has been featured many times in The Pastel Journal; International Artist Magazine; The Artists' Magazine; American Artist and Pastel Artist International. You can find her in "Pure Color-The Best of Pastels" and "100 Ways to Paint People & Figures, Volumes 1 and 2."
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