Lessons: Topics Include:

• -Seeing like the old masters: learning to generalize
• -Chiaroscuro: lighting the subject to create depth
• -Using constructs to simplify the form
• -Using colour charts and grays to match colours, value and chroma
• -The Bargue Drawing System: Drawing from the flat
• -Drawing from the antique: cast drawing: learning to measure
• -Basic introduction to Sight Size drawing
• -Tonal exercises using oil paint
• - The Imprimatura: (underpainting)
• -Creating realistic flesh tones
• -Blending edges: working with lost edges
• -Using brushstrokes to create the illusion of form