Figure Foundation (meets 2x weekly)
Class | This program is completed
Gain technical mastery and intuitive understanding of depicting the human form. Working from quick gesture drawings to longer, more considered poses, you will learn to incorporate proportion and anatomy; use light and shade to express volume; and line and tone to describe the planar changes in the body.
We recommend that everyone registered for an in-person program at Gage Academy of Art receives full COVID-19 vaccination. Gage leaves the use of face coverings when indoors at the facility up to each individual as masks are not required.
Supports:
• Drawing board 18” x 24"
• Rough Newsprint 18” x 24” (to pad your drawing paper, and for gestures)
• Strathmore 500 series white charcoal drawing pad 18” x 24"
• Strathmore 500 series Blue Grey or Smoke Grey charcoal drawing paper 18”x 24” or larger (1 or 2 sheets)
Drawing Materials:
• Kneaded eraser
• White eraser
• General’s Charcoal pencils (several HB’s one 2B)
• General’s White Charcoal pencil
• Blending Stumps (not the spiral wound ones)
• Willow Charcoal (Med. Sticks 5-6 mm)
• Chamois
• Small Snap knife from hardware store
• Sandpaper (one piece of 120 to 150 grit)
• 2 bull dog clips
• Wooden skewer (for sighting and measuring)
• Tombow Zero Refillable Round Eraser (optional but VERY useful)