Figure Drawing Workshop: The Importance of Line – Susan Walp

October 3 - 4 , 2009
Tuition: $350
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This two-day drawing workshop will utilize the human figure as a vehicle for exploring the use of line in relation to form, value, movement, and space. We’ll begin with quick gesture drawings and proceed through a series of exercises that will lead to a single long pose on the second day. For inspiration, we’ll refer to Michelangelo as an example of a draughtsman who explored the forms of the human body in his quick gestural studies, and then used that same knowledgeable, free, and responsive line to further develop the forms in the longer drawings. Open to intermediate and advanced students, or by permission of the instructor.

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Susan Walp lives and works in central Vermont. She has been teaching drawing and painting for 19 years, most recently at Dartmouth College; and, has been a guest critic and speaker at the Vermont Studio Center, the New York Studio School, Haverford College, Sonoma State College, and at the MFA Programs of the University of New Hampshire and Brooklyn College. She has received fellowships in painting from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy. Exhibitions include: the Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco; Victoria Munroe Fine Art in Boston and New York; Fischbach Gallery in New York; and, most recently, Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York.