Intro to Figure Drawing

Service Description

Intro to Figure Drawing with Deon Matzen Fridays, May 1, 8, 15 and 29 (no class on May 22) 10 am - noon $45 Drawing the Figure can be daunting when you first start out, but it is learnable and can set you up to enjoy Life Drawing sessions with unclothed models. In this class, our model will be clothed in shorts and a tank top so that we'll be able to see the structure of the body. We will learn about proportion, the way the parts of the body work and how they hold together. Most importantly, you will learn to improve your eye to hand coordination. Learning to see and transferring that information to the hand that holds the pencil is important. With a few pointers and gentle critiques, you should be able to produce reasonable drawings of the dressed human figure during the four weeks of classes. Bring drawing materials and an 18 x 24” newsprint tablet. Drawing materials may be soft pencil (4B or greater), charcoal, felt pens, etc. Easels and drawing horses are provided. Deon Matzen paints in both oil and watercolor, though the watercolor is often on unusual substrates like hardboard She paint animals, old buildings and trucks (unrestored). Recently she started a sequence of watercolor birds. Her main genre is "vanishing rural America." Her inspiration is anything with color. She has completed 144 dog portrait commissions, several dozen cats, a pig, and a family of ducks. Deon has a degree in fine art and has painted continually since 1995 in watercolor for the first ten years then switching to oils. Now she works with both. To see examples of her paintings go to: theruralgallery.com. How to pay: Please pay the entire $65 before or at the first class 1. pay through the donate button on createspacelangley.org 2. pay by check made out to WIAC (Whidbey Island Arts Council) and place in payment jar in the classroom. 3. pay by cash placed in payment jar in the classroom . Please please the entire amount even if you can't attend all 6 classes. If you can't afford $65, pay as you are able. Your payments ensure the future of Create Space.