Anthesis Atelier

This course offers an introduction to building solid drawing skills through copying master drawings. The copies that the students will work from are a series of exercises developed by Charles Bargue in 19th century France. We are not making “art” yet, but developing the hand, sense of subtlety and establishing the basics of vocabulary. Concepts like proportion, outline, shadow line, large shapes, simplification, shadow shape and half-tone will be explored and serve as the basics on which all further drawing and painting will rest. The goal of this course it to start building a verbal and visual vocabulary necessary for creating realistic drawings. The approach provides a clear process for how to draw anything, person, still life or a landscape, no matter the complexity of the subject.