Plein Air & Live Model in the Gardens with Barbara Saunders
Experience the light and colors of the beautiful OMAM gardens while learning to bring life and movement into your artwork with the aid of a live model. Students will learn through demonstrations and tutorial how to interpret and map a landscape plan in the OMAM gardens. Then with a live model and guidance from the instructor, students will learn to develop a keen eye and hand for creating a lifelike figure. The instructor will explain how to interpret the individual in the lifelike style “contrapposto,” (the counterpose ), invented by the Greeks to imbue life into static human form. Students will then learn to connect the landscape setting with a human model, creating a series of working sketches and “painting starts”. As a final exercise, students will discuss and translate “starts” to finishes in acrylic, watercolor, or pastel to create a final piece of art. Choose and bring the medium you are comfortable using: acrylic, watercolor, or pastel. Students are responsible for bringing the supplies materials listed at https://bit.ly/plein1101.
DATE/TIME: Friday, Nov. 1 @ 10:30am - 1:00pm
LOCATION: OMAM Gardens (78 E. Granada Blvd)
TUITION: $75 museum members; $83 future members
