Workshop

The Portrait Society of America's Art of the Portrait Conference in Washington, DC

Thursday, April 24, 2014: 5:00p–7:30p

Face-Off – Juliette Aristides, Ryan Brown, Scott Burdick, Wende Caporale, Ellen Cooper, Jeffrey Hein, Quang Ho, David Kassan, Robert Liberace, Paul Newton, Tony Pro, Anthony Ryder, Daniel Sprick, Alexey Steele and Jennifer Welty

Join Atelier instructor Juliette Aristides, and Gage art historian, Carol Hendricks, for this unparalleled opportunity to study the art and architecture of the Renaissance while refining your drawing skills. During this 2-week Florence intensive, your nationally-celebrated instructor, Juliette Aristides, focuses on classical drawing techniques for depicting the magnificent sculptures and buildings of Florence.

Following traditional methodology and technique, you work both from life and the masters in order to develop the tools to create well-crafted and luminous still life paintings in oil during this 5-day workshop.
Via master copy studies, lectures, and group discussions, you explore the technical issues of drawing and color theory while studying how master artists of the past have handled such challenges.

Over the course of this 10-day workshop, you dive into painting related issues while exploring the artist’s most fascinating subject matter: the human figure.
Build your artistic vocabulary as you work sequentially to complete a fully realized figure painting. Working from the live model, students begin with an accurate drawing, progress to the analysis of value, color, and composition with a small study, transfer the initial drawing to canvas or panel, then work to complete a finished piece from a tonal under painting to full color.

Following traditional methodology and technique, you work both from life and the masters in order to develop the tools to create well-crafted and luminous still life paintings in oil during this 5-day workshop.
Via master copy studies, lectures, and group discussions, you explore the technical issues of drawing and color theory while studying how master artists of the past have handled such challenges.

Explore the atmospheric use of tone in this two-day figure-drawing immersion. You create two kinds of work: a reductive drawing where you apply the charcoal first and remove the tone to reveal a strong value pattern. Next you draw on toned paper with white, where the charcoal or pencil is built up gradually to create form. Strong management of values in a composition is responsible for much of the power and visual impact of a work of art. Using the figure model as your subject, you look at many different aspects of tone such as composition, shape, edges and contrast.

Dive into the artists most fascinating subject matter- the human figure. Over the course of several days explore aspects of the painters craft such as:

Drawing to ensure accuracy and likeness
Value to study shape
Color to describe light.

Lectures, demonstrations and individual instruction aid your artistic progress.

Master Class with Juliette Aristides

Dive into the artists most fascinating subject matter- the human figure. Over the course of several days explore aspects of the painters craft such as: drawing to ensure accuracy and likeness, value to study shape, and color to describe light. Lectures and individual instruction aid your artistic progress. This workshop provides you with the necessary tools to bolster your artistic confidence.

Juliette Aristides and Jon DeMartin are teaming up to teach this intensive dual workshop during the month of August, 2013.