Lunenburg Art Gallery
2012 Workshops
All LAG workshops will ask for a non-refundable deposit and a final payment by specified dates. LAG is a non profit organization which sets up workshops at the lowest possible cost to participants. Unfortunately, we must be strict regarding refunds because we need a certain number of participants in order to afford the workshop. By the time the final payment is due, the plans are set for the visiting artist and the monies committed.
The Clothed Figure - Making it Real! — Sally Warren
Date: Saturday, February 18th, 2012
Time: 9:30 to 4:30 with lunch and refreshment breaks
Fee: $75 includes all materials
To Register: contact Pat McKenzie at patriciaamckenzie@gmail.com 688-2892
(spaces are limited)
If you like to use figures in your paintings this workshop will provide some useful insights. Working with live models and using graphite media and washes on fine papers explore ways to quickly capture the structural basics of the figure, the posture, the gesture, even the mood to provide accurate underpinnings for clothing. Then, investigate the structure and surface of the clothing itself, the stretch and compression of fabrics that create folds, drapes and winkles. This layering up produces truly credible and dynamic results. These drawing studies can later be used as a basis for paintings.
Facilitator: Sally Warren graduated with an honours diploma in Material Arts from the Ontario College of Art back in the olden days. She has had careers as a visual artist, teacher and museum educator. Currently she is studying printmaking with the nude figure as her primary subject. She coordinates the Life Drawing Sunday Sessions and the Access Art Workshops at the Mahone Bay Centre, exhibits at Peer Gallery and other venues throughout Nova Scotia and is the South Shore Regional Representative for Visual Arts Nova Scotia.
For more information about the workshop contact sallywarren@eastlink.ca