Life Drawing 2: Making Stronger Drawings
8 Week Class | This course is currently not open for registration.
evelop your personal voice and expression in life drawing. Once we have a foundation in drawing the forms of people’s bodies, then the challenge moves to “what can we do with this?” This course sets out to address that question, by exploring the picture-making side of life drawing.Working with live models, we will explore different aspects of drawing, with an eye to making more personal and compelling figure drawings. Among the elements we will experiment are: Line, Value and contrast, Composition & Mark-making.
Prerequisite: Prior life drawing experience.
Base Tuition: $396 + Model Fee: $95 + Material Fee: $10 = $501 Total
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- What You Will Learn
- Strategies for composition, including using a viewfinder, cropping and thumbnail sketches
- To consider the use of more or less contrast to increase or diminish drama
- Using line more sensitively
- To investigate and consider the types of marks you are using in your drawing
Thomas Hendry
Thomas is a Toronto-based artist, has been an instructor at the Toronto School of Art since 1996. Hendry has been active as an art instructor for over a decade, and he believes that learning art should be a positive discovery process. He practices this teaching philosophy beyond the Toronto School of Art at Sheridan College, The Haliburton School of Fine Arts, the AGO Gallery School, OCAD Outreach Program and the Toronto District School Board.
His drawings, shown in numerous exhibitions, use the means of traditional art to create contemporary images, images that address the beauty, mystery and complexity embodied in the human form.
1996 BA (Honours), University of Guelph
1994 Diploma (Honours), Ontario College of Art
1983 Arts; Sake Inc.