This workshop offers a curriculum used by 19thcentury painting masters to learn and refine the fundamentals of drawing. Bargue Plates are part of the drawing course created by French painters Jean-Le’on Gerome and Charles Bargue. The plates are tools used to teach students proportion, values, and other essential drawing techniques. This course will build your skills of perception and realism and take your drawing to the next level. (Pablo Picasso studied Bargue Plates).
The teaching approach will use demonstration followed by step-by-step instruction and individual guidance.
This is the first course of a series that will focus on representational realistic painting and drawing using the atelier method of instruction.
- Identify and apply a drawing strategy
- Practice observation skills
- Learn and apply classical drawing theory
- Increase visual literacy
- Practice hand-eye coordination
NO PREVIOUS DRAWING EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED.
Further information about the course is below.
Ages:
18 and older, 14-17 with a parent or guardian
Materials:
All needed materials are provided.
About the instructor: Felicia Castro is a Las Cruces-based artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the Southwest. She has a BFA is studio arts from NMSU and studied classical realism with Snowden Hodges.
NOTE: This event has been rescheduled from an original date of Saturday, July 14. It will now be held on Saturday, July 21.
