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SUMMARY:Class #212: Drawing the Facial Features with Addison Xu
DESCRIPTION:Time : 5:30PM – 7:30PM CDT on Mon —\n\n\n\nThis 8-week Zoom drawing class will focus on individual features of the face: the eyes\, nose\, mouth\, ears\, and hair. We’ll meet once a week and spend 1-2 sessions per feature. We will work on toned paper with pencil and chalk and explore their anatomy\, form\, simplification\, and other related topics. We’ll learn from photos of models as well as masterworks. Each session will be half demonstration and half class critique\, and the class will be recorded. \n\nSpecial Notes \n\nZoom class\nNo class on 9/7.\n\n\n\nRequired Supplies \n\nPencils (Range of hardnesses from about HB-2B)\, white chalk\, sandpaper and razor blade (for sharpening pencils)\, toned paper\, kneaded eraser\, drawing board
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/class-212-drawing-the-facial-features-with-addison-xu/
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SUMMARY:Class #297: Oil Painting - Copying Master Paintings & Personal Projects with Helen Oh
DESCRIPTION:Time : 10:00AM – 1:00PM CDT on Tue —\n\n\n\nCopying master paintings has long been considered one of the best ways to learn drawing and painting. Throughout history\, this practice has helped artists to build their visual memory\, gain insight about the painter’s intention and understand the work within a historical context. Rubens\, Degas\, and others used copying to strengthen their artistic vision.\n\nThe class is also open to independent projects by students who wish to explore modes of art making that may be inspired by themes or styles of their favorite painters.\nOpen to all levels. \nSpecial Notes \n\nThis class meets in our second floor studio.\nSupply List
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/class-297-oil-painting-copying-master-paintings-personal-projects-with-helen-oh/
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SUMMARY:Class #227: Portrait Drawing with Helen Oh
DESCRIPTION:Time : 2:00PM – 5:00PM CDT on Tue —\n\n\n\nFor millennia\, artists have delighted in drawing the human face and head. It is infinitely challenging and compelling to capture the unique combination of large and small\, fixed and mobile forms that combine to produce the sitter’s likeness. \nThis drawing course introduces the essentials of proportion\, line\, shading and color techniques as it examines specific forms drawn from the model. Open to all levels. \n\n\n\n\nSpecial Notes \n\nThis class meets in our 2nd floor studio.\n$60 non-refundable model fee paid directly to the instructor.\nNo class on 9/8.\nSupply List
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/class-227-portrait-drawing-with-helen-oh/
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SUMMARY:Class #218: Portrait Drawing with Addison Xu
DESCRIPTION:Time : 5:00PM – 7:00PM CDT on Tue —\n\n\n\nThis 8-week Zoom class is for beginner students who want to learn a structural and form-based approach to drawing portraits. We will meet once a week and work from photos and masterworks and discuss how to set up a linear block-in and how to render the illusion of three-dimensional form. Through critiques and demonstrations\, we will focus on understanding the structure and perspective of the head in space\, mechanics of light and form\, and proportions and likeness of the model. An optional assignment and supplementary material will be given weekly. Each session will be recorded. \n\nSpecial Notes \n\nZoom Class\n\nRequired Supplies \n\nPencils (Range of hardnesses from about HB-2B)\, white chalk\, sandpaper and razor blade (for sharpening pencils)\, toned paper\, kneaded eraser\, drawing board
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/class-218-portrait-drawing-with-addison-xu/
CATEGORIES:Classes
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SUMMARY:Class #110: Portrait Drawing with Don Yang
DESCRIPTION:6:30 PM – 9:00PM CDT on Tue.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis class is designed for anyone\, from beginning level to advanced level\, who wishes to draw a portrait in convincing realism. (Anyone can learn to draw as long as they have desire and patience and are willing to work at it!) Main emphasis of the class is to capture an accurate form of human portrait by measuring\, anatomical understanding and sound drawing fundamentals. Intermediate and advanced level students will use additional media (charcoal\, chalk\, colored pencil) to explore various techniques and styles.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Notes \n\nThis class meets in our second studio.\nNo class on 9/22.\n\n\n\nRequired Supplies \n\nSupply List
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/class-110-portrait-drawing-with-don-yang/
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SUMMARY:Emerging Artists: August 28 - September 27
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, August 28 from 6 to 9 pm for the opening reception and awards! \nChicago’s Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts is pleased to announce an annual art exhibition and competition dedicated to showcasing and awarding upcoming talent in the world of representational art. Our goal is to select work by emerging artists under 40 years old that demonstrates an excellent command of foundational skills while following a distinct and personal creative instinct. As our background is in classical and contemporary realism\, we will be looking for pieces that arise from these traditions. Nevertheless\, we welcome representational work that exists outside of these categories\, so long as it demonstrates sufficient technical aptitude. \nThe show’s objective is to support the vision of younger\, emerging artists. As such\, emerging artists under 40 will be represented in all areas of the exhibition\, including the pool of jurors\, judges and organizers. The idea is to create a showcase of younger artists\, by younger artists. \nThe show will be on view for one month. We will be organizing a number of events\, including an opening reception\, artist talks\, demos\, and more during this period. Our goal is for these events to transform the exhibition into more than just an art show by sparking thought\, conversation and creativity inspired by the selected works. Exhibiting artists are encouraged to participate in these events. \nThe show will run through September 27.
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/emerging-artists-august-28-september-27/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Class #145: Learn Artistic Anatomy through Quick-Sketch Drawing with Tor Muehl
DESCRIPTION:6:00 PM – 9:00PM CDT on Wed.\n\n\n\n\nClass activities include art anatomy presentations with discussion\, active learning through quick sketch drawing from live models\, muscle and skeletal models. Structures covered include bones\, bony landmarks\, muscle compartments and individual muscles. Layman’s terms will augment or replace scientific terminology whenever possible. \nClass goals are for the student to learn bones and muscle structures that contribute to surface shapes for the purpose of accurately drawing the human form. Each 6-week class will focus on one section of the body including: 1) Lower Extremity\, 2) Upper extremity\, 3) Thorax\, and 4) Head & Neck \nThis session will focus on the shoulder\, arm and hand. \n\nSpecial Notes\n\nThe class will meet in our coach house studio (rear building).\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRequired Supplies \n\n9” x 12” sketchbook\nDrawing instruments: Pencils: (HB\, B\, 2B) or preferred drawing medium\nKneaded eraser
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/class-144-learn-portrait-artistic-anatomy-through-quick-sketch-drawing-with-tor-muehl-2/
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SUMMARY:#150: Figure Drawing with Practical Anatomy with Helen Oh
DESCRIPTION:The course explores methods of capturing the essentials of rhythm\, weight-bearing\, and balance of the figure in line and tone. Recognition of anatomical ‘landmarks’ provides the basis of forms that describe action\, tension\, and motion in the body—the essentials in constructing convincing and expressive form in drawing.\n\nEach session begins with instructor’s demo that covers parts of the skeletal or muscle system and their relationship to figure proportions. Live model poses throughout.\n\nOpen to all drawing media. Open to all levels.
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/153-figure-drawing-with-practical-anatomy-with-helen-oh/
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SUMMARY:Class #324: Foundations of Drawing & Painting with Andrew Conklin
DESCRIPTION:Time : 2:00PM – 5:00PM CDT on Sun —\n\n\n\n\n\nHow can one improve pictorial ideas and techniques? What are essential tools and concepts employed by visual artists? This course covers the basics of composition\, perspective drawing\, and color theory and application. Through a series of short projects\, students investigate ideas and techniques used by painters of all styles to add visual\, spatial\, and emotional elements to their art. Students work with media of color paper\, pencils\, and gouache paint. Limited to 9 students. Open to all levels. \n\n\n\nSpecial Notes \n\nThis class meets in our lower-level studio.\n\n\nRequired Supplies \n\nSupply List
URL:https://paletteandchisel.org/event/class-324-foundations-of-drawing-painting-with-andrew-conklin-2/
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