Multiple Figure Composition Part II: After Modernism, Building Your Own Composition
Multiple Figure Composition Part II: After Modernism, Building Your Own Composition
In this four-session, online course we will use art history as the foundation to build our own multiple figure compositions. We will study compositions from modernism (Manet, Picasso, Cézanne etc.) and look at the work of contemporary artists as we walk through the ideation process of creating a painting together. Working in our sketchbooks we will build from a rough concept to sketches, value, and color studies. By the end we will have produced all the preparatory material needed to start a complex, multifigure painting. I will develop my own composition along with the class.
Details:
Each pre-recorded session is 2 hours long and includes a lecture, demo and Q & A. These videos are available to view as many times as you would like on an ongoing basis.
A sketchbook assignment follows each session for you to complete at your own pace. You are invited to post these assignments in a closed Facebook group where you will all be able to receive feedback from peers, contribute your ideas, and be part of a growing community of painters from around the world.
Materials list:
Sketchbook (at least 7 x 10”, good quality paper for drawing and water media
Graphite pencils: HB, 2B, 4B
Kneaded eraser
Pencil Sharpener
Gouache (something like titanium white, Naples yellow, yellow ochre, burnt sienna, alizarin crimson, raw umber, ivory black, ultramarine blue, and cadmium green)
Plastic palette
Watercolor brushes
NOTE: I’m planning to work in gouache, but you could also work in oils, acrylics or colored pencils. Feel free to use the materials that you have on hand and are comfortable with.