Awaken: A Guide to Drawing – with Iver Johnson

Saturdays, starting September 7, 1 – 3 pm
Delavan Studios, room 413
enter through 501 W Fayette St
Syracuse
Price: $15 (or 1 punch when paying in-person) per session.

Iver’s 2021 manuscript, Awaken: A Guide to Drawing forms the basis of this 10 week series of classes

Iver will guide participants though the figure drawing process. Each session will have a focus, and together they form a foundation from which to build your figure drawing practice.

The first 5 week set: 

September 7, 1 – 3 pmLine & Shape
September 14, 1 – 3 pmMeasurement (AKA Proportion and placement)
September 21, 1 – 3 pmTonality (light and shadow)
Septemer 28, 1 – 3 pmFramework of the pose (Ranking Structure)
October 5, 1 – 3 pmSurface Anatomy details

The second 5 week set (dates TBA):

  1. Dynamic Details (Gravity)
  2. Foreshortening (Perspective)
  3. Structure of Images (Composition) frameworks
  4. Evolving the Image in Stages
  5. Balance, Direction and Unity.

Each class can be taken individually, without the need to take previous classes in the series.

Materials: All necessary materials will be provided.

This class is part of in Open Figure Drawing’s 2024 Education Project – Today’s Studio Artists

All events, times, locations, etc, are subject to change.

Register
$15 (or 1 punch when paying in-person)
You must pay to complete your registration.

Register online using the form below
or
by mail or in person during any OFD session by printing and completing this form.

There are scholarships available to help anyone who would like to attend. Call Iver Johnson 315-475-3400.

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This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by CNY Arts.

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