Course Description:
Learn how skills harnessed with accuracy and acute training can unleash a truer and more powerful form of expression. Addressing the complexity of drawing the human figure, this workshop covers a method in which contours may be simplified into a straight-line approach, beginning from a general block and then carving out the forms with shadow and shading techniques. Students work from the model and receive regular critiques and individualized instruction. Topics of discussion include line and gesture, chiaroscuro, form modeling, half tones and highlights, massing of tone, terminator/core line of shadows, basic anatomy and how to render detail without losing form or overall harmony.
Biography
Teresa Oaxaca is an American born artist based currently in Washington D.C. She is a full time painter whose works can be seen in collections and galleries throughout the US and internationally. Her talent has been recognized and rewarded by museums and institutions such as the American Museum of the Cowboy, The former Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Art Renewal Center, The Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Posey Foundation, and The Portrait Society of America.
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