Figure Drawing

Figure Drawing

Instructor Name: Suzanne Lacke

Date: July 26, 2022

Time: 10:00 – 4:00

Location: Five Points Art Center Drawing Lab

Ages: 18+

Cost: $90

Class Cap: 10

Workshop Description

Drawing the human figure is one of the finest things one can do for visual awareness no matter what their art practice is.  The process helps you “see” and expand your vision.  It engages you in studies of shape, form, light and dark, composition and much more.

In this one-day workshop participants will be introduced to various approaches to drawing the figure.  Techniques such as gesture drawing, contour, blind contour, angle drawing will be introduced and demonstrated in the morning session.

In the afternoon session there will be an opportunity to work on longer drawings using measuring techniques for proportions and techniques for shading.

I will bring art books and drawing technique books to share.

There will be demonstrations as well as individual attention and assistance.

Required Materials

• Newsprint Paper – 18” x  24” – Rough
• Charcoal paper for longer drawing – 18 x 24 or larger (optional)
• Vine Charcoal – Soft.  A box of these would be good
• Compressed Charcoal sticks – Prismacolor - soft
• Charcoal Pencil – soft
• Conte Crayon – Any color works.  Available in 2 sticks to a packet.
• Kneaded Eraser
• Chamois
• 3 large clips to hold your paper – “Bulldog clip”  is the name of one kind
• Any other drawing materials you might have and want to try

Instructor Bio

Suzanne Lacke is an artist and teacher living in Salisbury Connecticut.

She has recently relocated from Berkeley, California where she was teaching for many years at two community colleges, UC Berkeley and the Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California.

She received her BA in Art History from the University of Pittsburgh, studied figure drawing, painting and sculpture at the Art Students League in New York City and received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley.

She has taught classes in figure drawing, principles of color, figure painting, drawing, painting and landscape painting.  She is primarily a figurative artist painting figures, landscape and still-life using oil paints for the most part but also watercolor and acrylic paints.  Figure drawing has been a mainstay of her practice.

She exhibited often in The Bay Area in California, most recently at the de Young museum in San Francisco.  She has had two exhibits since moving to Connecticut, at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass. and at a gallery in Sheffield, Mass.

Instructor Website - www.suzannelacke.com