Academic Figure Drawing & Painting with Leeanna Chipana

Academic Figure Drawing & Painting with Leeanna Chipana

by | Aug 13, 2018 | Archive

Academic Figure Drawing & Painting (Long Pose) with Leeanna Chipana
11 Weeks • Fridays • Sept 7, 14, 21, 28, Oct 5, 19, Nov 2, 9, 16, 30, Dec 14
2:30 – 5:30pm
$535 M/$570 NM

Deposits being taken. (No class Oct. 12, Oct. 26, Nov, 23 and Dec. 7.)

In this course, students will first work with the model in order to practice gesture drawing. We will have short poses starting with one minute to 5 minutes, ten minute and then 20 minute poses. Then students will work on a longer 4-session pose.
Students will be given step by step instructions on how to draw the figure first starting with the block in and incorporating the gesture, poetry, anatomy and structural understanding of the nude. Leeanna will discuss anatomy each session and handouts will be given out.
Students will first draw the figure before going on to painting.

Includes model fee.
Materials list will be provided.

Leeanna Chipana began her art studies at the Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts in Oyster Bay, NY in 2004 where she studied under painter and illustrator Attila Hejja. While working as his personal assistant Leeanna studied figure painting with Mr. Hejja. After Mr. Hejja’s sudden death in the Summer of 2007, Leeanna decided to devote her life to pursuing her own art studies more rigorously and dedicate herself to teaching traditional painting and drawing. She started by attending the New York Art Students League where she studied figure painting for two years with artist Nelson Shanks. She went on to continue her studies under full scholarship with Robert Armetta of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art at the Atelier Armetta program located in Glen Cove, NY. She attended the Water Street Atelier where she was enrolled in a full-time program dedicated to classical drawing and painting under artist Jacob Collins. Her work ranges from landscapes to still-life and portraits from life.

Leeanna continued her training at the Grand Central Atelier in New York in their full-time core program – the Water Street Atelier with Jacob Collins. She was a recipient of the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Grant, a Hudson River Fellow and was awarded a scholarship to attend the New York Academy of Art. She teaches on Long Island’s North Shore.

Constructive Figure Drawing w/Greg Follender

Constructive Figure Drawing w/Greg Follender

by | Feb 6, 2018 | Past Classes and Workshops

Constructive Figure Drawing with Greg Follender
Feb 27, March 5, 12, April 2, April 23, April 30, May 7, 14 • 4-7 pm
$440M/$475NM

Learning to draw without the trepidation of constant internal criticism can be both incredibly liberating and beneficial to the working artist.

In this class, students will learn how to trust their own instincts and quiet the internal critic that often hampers successful gesture drawing. Short, timed sketching sessions will allow participants to quickly turn the figure in deep space and represent the nude form in more dramatic and challenging poses, while longer drawings will encourage the expression of volume and weight in the subject.

These exercises are designed to establish easy-to-follow anatomical formulas and increased recognition of important body landmarks. The sketch sessions will build confidence exponentially until students find that they can document the nude figure in dramatically less time than before, enabling them to concentrate more on the fluid expression of their marks on paper instead of the simple reportage of their subject.

 

ABOUT GREG FOLLENDER:
Greg Follender is a New York based artist/Illustrator who has been teaching drawing and sculpting classes at the American Museum of Natural History for almost two decades.  His passionate pursuit of rendering the human form has taken him from the dynamic world of comic books and graphic novels, to character design and costume fabrication in the industry of film and television.
 
When he isn’t working on his oil paintings or comic pages, Greg teaches figure drawing and anatomy workshops at The Art Students League of New York City.
For more about Greg, visit his website: www.gregfollender.com