Instructor:
Ian Torney
Days // Times:
July 15-18
Tuesday - Friday // 9:30 am–12 noon
Tuition:
$ 250
Students will create a dramatic, finished and larger-than-life self-portrait on @ 40” x 60” parchment paper or a large piece of cardboard, building a portrait image in a step-by-step process from a photograph, from a line drawing in graphite, to a limited palette in acrylic using Burnt Umber and white paint in washes of value, and utilizing both Classical and contemporary methodology and practice.
Participants will consider related art history and aesthetics, from the Classical painter Caravaggio to contemporary artist Shepard Fairey, as well as both traditional and modernist techniques of image-making.
This course is open to both Teens and Adults, and is open to both the novice or experienced artist. This course meets for two-and-a-half hours a day for four mornings across one week, 9:30 am to 12 noon on Tuesday through Friday.
Students should bring the following materials
available at https://www.nantucketcreate.com/
Students will have the option to continue working independently in the studio outside of class.
Students should also bring a water-bottle or similar beverage and a mid-morning snack.
All other materials will be supplied by the instructor.
Seaview Farm Arts Center
23 Wauwinet Road
Nantucket, Ma 02554
PHONE (508) 228-9248
FAX (508) 228-3648
EMAIL nisdaartsnantucket@nisda.org