Developing the Figure through Drawing and Painting
Workshop | This program is completed
Learn how to paint the human figure starting with a drawing and progressing to painting from the life model. Students will learn a systematic technique via painting models holding short and long poses. The great paintings throughout history always have a beautiful balance of proportion, value, color, and edge. These aspects are what give power and presence to one’s work. Figure painting is deeply rewarding, engaging, and bound to take one’s appreciation and skill to the next level. Aristides provides frequent demos, breaking down the process of painting into clear and consecutive steps, as well as critique and instruction each session. Students will focus on how to start a drawing and develop proportion, value, color, and edge-work, which will help them to accurately capture a likeness within a limited time frame. Practicing this way over the course of the four days will help to sharpen your observation, and take your skill to a new level. www.aristidesarts.com
Juliette Aristides
Juliette Aristides is a Seattle-based painter who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art. Actively dedicated to rebuilding a traditional arts education in the United States, Aristides founded the first Atelier in the NW the Aristides Atelier at the Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle, WA in 2000. The co-founder of the DaVinci Initiative promoting skill based art instruction to public school teachers. She teaches workshops both nationally and internationally. Author of The Classical Drawing Atelier, The Classical Painting Atelier, Lessons in Classical Drawing, and Lessons in Classical Painting with Watson-Guptill, NY.
Aristides exhibits in numerous one person and group shows nationally and her work has been featured in Gulf Connoisseur Magazine, Artists and Illustrators UK, Artist’s Magazine, American Arts Quarterly, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector and American Artist. Aristides has a Solo museum exhibition Observations 2013 in Reading, PA.