Adult Programs | Adult Workshops | Weekend Workshops
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Fall Programs Start September 13
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Gage Academy offers two- to three-day workshops in drawing, painting and sculpting with instructors who are themselves accomplished artists, dedicated to helping you build your skills, develop your artistic abilities and realize your creative potential.
BEGINNING | INTERMEDIATE
BEGINNING WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
WW1021 | FIGURE DRAWING ON TONED PAPER
7/31-8/1, Sat-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [2 days]
Explore the atmospheric use of tone in this two-day figure-drawing immersion. You create two kinds of work: a reductive drawing where you apply the charcoal first and remove the tone to reveal a strong value pattern. Next you draw on toned paper with white, where the charcoal or pencil is built up gradually to create form. Strong management of values in a composition is responsible for much of the power and visual impact of a work of art. Using the figure model as your subject, you look at many different aspects of tone such as composition, shape, edges and contrast. The workshop is augmented by ongoing demonstrations, discussions and lectures related to figure drawing on toned paper and how it can be applied to other subject matter.
ALL LEVELS
SOLD OUT --- please call to be added to the waitlist.
ALL LEVELS
SOLD OUT --- please call to be added to the waitlist.
- WW1024 The Figure in Ink Wash
with Geoff Flack
August 21-22
$225
WW1022 | DEMYSTIFY DRAWING
8/7-8/8, Sat-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [2 days]
Learn line, texture, shape and tone as Fitch guides you through a carefully sequenced, step-by-step process of learning to “see” your subject. Using a rich variety of subjects, processes and material techniques, discover your own unique way of perceiving and expressing the world around you.
ALL LEVELS
ALL LEVELS
WW1023 | PORTRAYING THE ROSE IN WATERCOLOR
8/14-8/15, Sat-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [2 days]
A classic subject, the rose is an excellent choice for learning the basics of botanical watercolor: flat and graduated washes and the technique known as dry-brush. You learn the rudiments of measurement to draw your subject, then apply washes and dry-brush detail to render a realistic portrait of a rose.
ALL LEVELS
ALL LEVELS
WW1024 | THE FIGURE IN INK WASH
8/21-8/22, Sat-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [2 days]
Learn how to build up shades of subtle, atmospheric lights and darks in ink wash, and use those beautiful qualities to place the figure in its environment. Your time is divided into multiple drawings that are focused on studying how light moves throughout space, creating tonal zones and revealing form. Experience in drawing the figure recommended.
ALL LEVELS
ALL LEVELS
WW1025 | THE PORTRAIT SKETCH
8/28-8/29, Sat-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [2 days]
Describe the essential information about your model in a portrait sketch! Learn to seek out and record certain particulars of form and color when sketching from life for later use as reference material. This workshop is perfect for anyone who has experienced the frustration of time-limited sittings from life when working to create a portrait.
ALL LEVELS
ALL LEVELS
WW1026 | DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS
9/2-9/4, Thurs-Sat, 9:30am-4:30pm [3 days]
Spend three days in intensive study applying the basics of realist drawing in charcoal. Learn to see and understand how to draw form by depicting its light and shadow, as well as the light and shadow of the spaces around the form. You also learn to interpret various colors into a fully graded and visually understandable black and white value range, and use a charcoal technique that allows for sharp edges and a complete value range in your drawing.
ALL LEVELS
ALL LEVELS
WW1027 | ESSENTIAL BRUSH TECHNIQUES
9/10-9/12, Fri-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [3 days]
Brushwork is the signature of an artist. Learn how to develop the skills for interpreting volume, space, movement and texture through brush handling. A close examination of mediums will help you control the viscosity of paint to achieve different painterly effects on a variety of surfaces.
ALL LEVELS
ALL LEVELS
$295
WW1029 | LEAVES OF AUTUMN IN WATERCOLOR
10/9-10/10, Sat-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [2 days]
The colors and forms of autumn leaves make them an enjoyable opportunity to play with a variety of watercolor methods. Beginners to botanical illustration learn observation and measurement skills necessary for an accurate botanical rendering, as well as the use of watercolor washes and dry-brush technique. Intermediate students gain experience in mixing colors, in layering and loosening up a bit with the wet-on-wet washes effective in capturing the colors of autumn.
ALL LEVELS
ALL LEVELS
$195
INTERMEDIATE WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
WW1028 | SEATTLE'S WORKING WATERFRONT IN WATERCOLOR
9/25-9/26, Sat-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [2 days]
Plein air painters in Seattle have a great resource in the many rich maritime locations around the city. Fisherman’s Terminal, the ship canal, North and South Lake Union, Ballard Oil, the Duwamish channel, Harbor Island ... too many great sites to visit in one weekend. Each offers the rewards of big shapes and high-contrast imagery, and the challenges of lots of information, plus moving water. You paint at two locales each day and focus on how to choose the essential information and then how to further simplify your work.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
$195
WW1030 | FIGURE SKETCHING WITH INK WASH & CHARCOAL
12/10-12/12, Fri-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm [3 days]
Discover the freedom and expressive quality of ink wash layered with charcoal and white chalk while improving your ability to accurately draw the figure, use perspective and render drapery and folds. You complete gesture work and several finished drawings on tinted paper, learning to capture the essence of the nude and clothed figure in space with incisive lines and strong tonal values. Some figure drawing experience or permission of instructor is required. $10 partial materials fee payable to instructor.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED LEVELS
$325