Course Description- The goal of this class is to develop your understanding of the human form, both in how it moves and how it is constructed. Emphasis will be placed on considering the whole figure as a complete idea. We will cover gesture, form, and the indication of the two in understanding how to rapidly draw from the model.
Class: 2056 Contemporary Portrait Painting
Time and Day: 7pm-10pm, Wednesday
Instructor: Eric Pedersen
Course Description – Contemporary Portrait Painting is designed to enable the student to apply traditional methods of paintings to contemporary ideas. This class encourages creative thinking to allow the artist to produce work that is unique to their own personal vision. Through examples of other contemporary figurative paintings, and one-on-one sessions with the instructor, the student will begin to develop a visual language that is unique to themselves and the culture they live in.
Class: 4250- Animation Background Layout – Environment Design
Time and Day: 7:00pm-10:00pm
Instructor: Robert St Pierre
Course Description- This course explores the fundamentals of environment design. The class will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of what goes into designing environments including a step by step process which will culminate with the students producing environment drawings of their own. Weekly lectures and demonstrations will cover topics such as staging and composition, 1, 2, 3 and 5 point perspective, scaling characters, visual story telling, natural and artificial lighting, thumbnails and rough sketching, final line and line quality and tonal drawings. Students will be expected to work within the classroom as well as manage homework assignments.
Class: 2368- 20th Century Old-Master Portrait/Figure Painting A and B
Instructor: Michael Siegel
Wednesday, 10am-1pm
If you would like to pre-enroll, visit http://laafa.org/sessions/register_policy.php?cmd=pre_application or call 818.708.9232.
This course will consist of painting demonstrations and lectures covering the important elements of painting such as value, color and edges, as well as composition and design. Each week the artists will paint from life a different model using the Alla Prima (wet into wet technique) and will receive individual instruction and critiques. The goal is to advance your skills in the direct painting method while applying the fundamentals to achieve a solid understanding of painting the human form in various light conditions and settings.
If you would like to pre-enroll, go to http://laafa.org/sessions/register_policy.php?cmd=pre_application or call 818.708.9232
Course Description – The goal of this class is to develop your understanding of the human form, both in how it moves and how it is constructed. Emphasis will also be placed on considering the whole figure as a complete idea, as well as designing what we see to make a clearer and more concise statement. Developing good drawing habits is also stressed.
#1001 Basic Drawing Fundamentals
Time and Day: 10am-1pm, Saturday
Instructor: Eric Pedersen
The focus of this course will be on making the transition from figure drawing to drawing from imagination in a variety of styles. These skills can be used in such fields as character design, storyboarding, and comics. Students will go through the figure one part at a time and learn how to translate structural figure drawing knowledge into cartooning knowledge. After students learn the similarities and differences in figure drawing and cartooning, they will move on to learning how to create natural looking poses for the characters as well as creating environments to place the characters in. Finally, students will learn how they can apply these skills to storyboarding, character design, and comics.
#1176 Figure Drawing - An Analysis of Rhythm and Structure
Time and Day: 10am-1pm, Sunday
Instructor: Danny Galieote
Course Description – This course is designed to give the student a dynamic and solid classical foundation in drawing the figure. We will be analyzing how to “pick-up” rhythms and flows through the figure and be studying the anatomical landmarks and important skeletal and muscular articulations. We will also work on the tonal relationships, form design and line quality as the class progresses. Toward the end of the course, we will concentrate on finishing beautiful, appealing, well-designed drawings on medium toned paper with dark pencil with white highlights in a classical manner. Class starts with 2 or 5 min poses, progressing with 10 to 15 min and ending with 25 min poses. Samples/Demonstrations of drawings and /or paintings will be shown.
#0083 Costumed Long Pose Workshop (Entertainment Characters) - Uninstructed - Time and Day: 10am-3:30pm, Sunday
Instructor: N/A
Course Description – This is an uninstructed workshop, in which each model will wear a different costume. The model will hold one pose for the duration of the day. The first week will have a female model, with a total of 10 different models in 10 different costumes. Please see below.
Week 1 – female
Week 2 – female
Week 3 – male
Week 4 – female
Week 5 – female
Week 6 – male
Week 7 – female
Week 8 – female
Week 9 – male
Week 10 - female
#6009 Long Pose Head Drawing & Painting (Teen Program)
Time and Day: 1:30pm-4:30pm, Sunday
Instructor: Alexandria Douziech
Course Description - This class will focus the structure of the head, how light hits form, how to simplify values, and color theory through a limited palette. We will be working from one live model the whole time. My hope is to introduce the students to the basic fundamentals of painting the head. At the end of the class, the students should be able to have a finished head study that they can feel proud of.
#3000 - Ecorche/3D Sculptural Anatomy
Instructor: Rey Bustos
Sunday, 9am-2:30pm
3-D Anatomy/Ecorché is a centuries old method of learning anatomy through three dimensional means. The word ecorche' is French for flayed body and refers to human or animal anatomy by which you can see the interplay between the skeleton ,tendons,ligaments and the muscles that create what we see on the living form. It is an essential means for every figurative artist to better interpret though knowledge what he sees.
#2100- Still-Life Painting
Instructor: Arpi Azaryan
Sunday, 10am-1pm
This still life course will introduce students to an understanding about composition, lighting, proper volume of form and color. Using sight-size and academic classical techniques, particular attention will be paid to properly perceiving depth, focus, pigments and mediums to produce an overall accurate yet appealing finished product.
You can pre-enroll at http://laafa.org/sessions/register_policy.php?cmd=pre_application or call 818.708.9232.
The brochure also includes information about our Student Show at the Downtown Art Walk, June 10th and our Open House June 19th.
The Pasadena Convention Center
& Civic Auditorium
Memorial Day Weekend 2010
Fri., Sat., Sun. - May 28, 29, 30
Make sure to check out our booth! We will be sending out our booth number soon!
For more information about the event, go to: http://www.rockncomiccon.com/
Julian Brooks, associate curator of Drawings, the J. Paul Getty Museum, investigates the rivalry between Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti, which was precipated by their commissions in Florence, and the astonishing innovations which resulted.
