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The New Mexico Art League
3407 Juan Tabo NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111
505-293-5034

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 16554
Albuquerque, NM 87191

Drawing and Painting the Figure with Andres Fidel Orlowski

Drawing and Painting the Figure

Thursdays: 1:30 - 4:30pm
January 14 - March 4
March 11 - April 29

Tuition: $240 (includes the model fee)

New Mexico Art League Class Registration Form

You may register online and return here to pay securely on line, or mail your payment. If you pay online, please print your receipt for your records.

Class Description:

Artist Andres Orlowski's work is rooted in Western Realism and the figure. Metaphors of time, aesthetic trends and human experience and identity are present in his work grounded in the study of light, form and color. The sound depiction of the human figure is a challenge. The course will take students through time-tested approaches to developing visual perception in the study of the human figure.

Working from a model each session (male and female), the course will center on constructing the figure, anatomy, alignment, proportion, sight-size method, shadow shape, blocking in a pose, tone, value, warms and cools, unity, copies from master drawings/ paintings and historical background.

3 drawings from the model will be executed in pencil, charcoal and conte for the figure drawing portion. The painting class will do a monochrome sketch and two paintings during the 8 sessions. Both classes will perform sight-size copies of drawings and the painting group a painting copy.

The course will follow techniques used in French Ateliers of the 19th century and contemporary schools by professional painters in the U.S. and Italy.

Materials- Drawing:

Drawing Board
Vine or Willow Charcoal (medium and hard)
Tortillions
Kneaded Eraser
3 sheets of 22 x 30  Canson BFK Rives Gray or Cream.
Drawing paper
Pencils: HB, B, 2B
Conte crayon: sanguine
White Chalk
Sand Paper
X-acto Knife
Charcoal Fixative
Plumb line or a nail or screw
String- 16 inches
Hand mirror

Materials-Painting:

Palette (no white palettes)
Palette Knife
Oils*
Neo Meglip medium
Odorless Mineral Spirits
Linen, Cotton or Boards* sizes: 12 x 24
16 inch string, nail or screw
Brushes: 8 round, 8 filbert, 4 bright and 2 round (Princeton OK) Artisans has other brands that are as good or better.
Rag to wipe off excess paint on brushes
Vine or Willow charcoal
Tortillions
Kneaded eraser
22 x 30 Canson BFK Rives Gray or Cream
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OILS- Windsor Newton
Raw Umber
Burnt Sienna
Olive Green
Sap Green
Cobalt or Ultramarine Blue
Flake White
Yellow Ochre
Medium Red
Alizarin Crimson
Naples Yellow