Draw better!

Improve shape recognition
Learn accurate human proportion - even in foreshortened and complex poses
Find how structure and perspective depict gesture
Understand how light interacts with form

Make it look real!

We will draw from the nude model for 7 sessions of 3 hours each- a 21 hour pose.

My first life drawing class at the Academy of Art University at the age of 16 compelled me to recreate life on the paper. Since then I have sought out the highest quality training, traveling to New York City to learn from the best realists alive. With Michael Grimaldi, I studied anatomy and spent months drawing from cadavers at Drexel Medical school. I have shown my oil paintings in galleries in my native Northern California. 
I want to give you the gems I have found from my training, actual methods that work to improve technique, no matter where you are in your creative development. 
I want to share these gems so that you can experience what I have experienced from my studies: an expanded sense of visual awareness. Art practice unveils intense beauty in everyday life- the intense beauty of visual awareness. It feels magical, some call it talent, but really it's just learning to see. 
Life drawing has opened me to feel, through simple observation, the life each human body expresses. The body shows every experience, healing, growing, fatiguing, strengthening. Function is form: life shapes the body. 

Sundays 6pm-9pm Oct 19- Nov 16
$140 for 7, three hour sessions ($20 each)
$30 drop in

(experienced artists who do not desire instruction may draw from the model for a $5 discount per session)

Every Wednesday 6:30PM-9:30PM

We are art models. We are artists. Why pay to hire a model? Let's draw each other.
Eliminate the divide between model and artist . We all pose, we all draw. Pose nude for 20 minutes, and draw your fellow artists for the rest of the session!
We welcome all levels of expertise in modeling and drawing. We have pro artists and pro models, and beginners as well. Don't be shy! Some of us have modeled nude for the first time here, others have been doing it professionally for years and can help you out if it's your first time. If you're a professional model but don't draw much, now is a great time to learn! Many of us are art teachers, and would gladly help you get started drawing from the model.

Original work by Bridget Star Harrison on display at Neologian Art Gallery until Sept 19.

http://www.neologianartgallery.com/#!current-art-on-display/c1mdj