Life Drawing Workshop: Gesture Drawing
5 Week Class | Registration opens 2025-07-03 12:00 AM
Gesture drawing is a particular approach to figure drawing with the focus on very quickly communicating information about action and form. This workshop will focus on approaches to balance describing information and expression, as well as developing fast and confident mark-making.
There are a variety of approaches to gesture drawing that will be introduced and explored, including scribble drawings, memory gestures, rhythmic gestures, structural gestures, exaggerating action and intuitive gestures.
In this workshop, poses will all be short - most under 10 minutes. Instruction will consist of instructor demos and lectures and lots of working time with live models.
Base Tuition: $287 + Model Fee: $70 = $457 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Working on developing spontaneous and fluid mark-making
- Using a variety of art materials (charcoal, Conte crayon, pastel sticks)
- Trying to distill essential information quickly in a pose (lines of action, main body masses)
- Working more expressively and intuitively
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.