Life Drawing Basics
This introduction to life drawing is open to students with all levels of experience and covers drawing fundamentals such as anatomy, line, and shading, as well as contemporary techniques. Participants begin by visiting some of the Museum’s renowned figure paintings and sculptures and then move to the studio to work from a live model. Classes fill up quickly, and enrollment is limited to 15 students.
Saturday and Sunday, February 11–12
1–5 p.m.
Fees:
Members: $112 (supplies included)
General: $125 (supplies included)
The Painterly Figure
This workshop explores the figure through paint, using visits to the Museum’s galleries to inform large-scale work from a live model. Participants will develop an understanding of how to portray the human form within space, moving beyond academic rendering to incorporate expression and emotion into their work. Classes fill up quickly, and enrollment is limited to 15 students.
Saturday and Sunday, February 18–19
1–5 p.m.
Fees:
Members: $112 (supplies included)
General: $125 (supplies included)
Registration forms are available online or in the Con Edison Education Gallery on the first floor. Forms can be mailed, faxed, or brought to the Museum during business hours. Forms without payment will not be accepted.
The Gallery/Studio Program is generously supported by The Hearst Foundation, Inc., the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, and the Brooklyn Museum’s Molly B. Levine Fund, established by Laurence W. Levine, Jay H. Levine, Susan Levine Kane, and the Laurence W. Levine Foundation. The program is also supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Major support is also provided by the Museum’s Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles, William Randolph Hearst, and Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation education endowments, and by Con Edison.
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