2010 Drawing Intensive Schedule

The Picture Plane
2-Day Drawing Intensive
9:30AM to 5:30PM
Saturday, June 5th & Sunday, June 6th
Faculty: Lon Clark, Laura Harden

Everyone talks about the picture plane but who really understands or engages it? Spend two non-stop days of drawing designed to experience the picture plane as the vital basis for drawing and painting. Definitions & examples from the Renaissance to Hans Hofmann and up to today will be presented, interpreted and experimented with through a combination of form, imagery, multiple drawing setups and working with the figure.

Since the picture plane is the basis for understanding the visual dynamic in drawing and painting and is relevant to photography, SFSS offers a 10% discount on any additional summer workshops when combined with "The Picture Plane" intensive.

Tuition: $225/2 days + $25 Registration Fee.
Payment due in full at time of registration. Cancellations must be made in writing 10-days before first day of workshop for a full tuition refund. Registration fee is non-refundable.

Space is limited, early enrollment is suggested. Please email info@sfstudioschool.org or call 415-398-4300 if you have questions or prefer to register by email.

Materials list will be provided upon registration.


Figure Drawing: Drawing on Perception
3-Day Drawing Intensive
Friday, June 18th to Sunday, June 20th: 9:30AM to 5:30PM
Faculty: Lon Clark, Sandy Walker, Laura Harden

The Drawing Intensive is comprised of three days filled with in-depth concentration on the nature of drawing. The workshop will explore perception as an alternative to academic preconceptions of drawing the figure, associations with the picture plane, discovering light and space, scale, the quest for form, understanding visual metaphor and the difference between pictorial and narrative concept. Presentations, exercises and the constant activity of drawing in very small and very large formats as well as different media will dramatically advance understanding of drawing and its potentials. Related disciplines such as painting, mixed media and photography will be referenced to explicate the essential qualities of drawing. The Drawing Intensive will transform one's understanding of the process of seeing. It will accelerate participants' understanding of essential issues related to drawing as structure and as an ongoing preoccupation for the artist through many forms and media. Models will be present throughout the workshop.

Tuition: $475/3 days + $25 Registration Fee, Model fees included.
Payment due in full at time of registration. Cancellations must be made in writing 10-days before first day of workshop for a full tuition refund. Registration fee is non-refundable.

Space is limited, early enrollment is suggested. Please email info@sfstudioschool.org or call 415-398-4300 if you have questions or prefer to register by email.

Materials list will be provided upon registration.

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"I just wanted to say thank you again for a wonderful week of mark-making and diction...It was an amazing experience and I'm thankful for the opportunity to be a part of it..."

-Lori Schwilling, Drawing Intensive 2008



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