Visual Arts & Crafts
CCAE Studio School offers a group of coordinated classes that focuses on perceptual drawing and oil painting. We are interested in helping students develop skills that enable them to record and interpret, analyze and express. We are geared towards painting an stressing the importance of spatial relationships and careful observation. For more information, visit ccae.org/studio-school.
THE NATURE OF SPACE: PAINTING IN HARVARD SQUARE
PAINTING FOUNDATIONS: STILL LIFE AND LANDSCAPE
Jeremy Durling | Artist, jeremydurling.com
Jeremy Durling | Artist, jeremydurling.com
Through careful study of the landscape, we will seek to recreate our sense of space through perspective, saturation of color, and value contrast. We will apply our understanding while painting outdoors around Harvard Square, including along the Charles River, Harvard campus, and other scenic locations near the square. COURSE CODE: DPCS Sec. 01: 5 Thursdays, 9am-12:30pm. Begins Sep. 22 | $340
DRAWING WITH THE FIGURE Jeremy Durling | Artist, jeremydurling.com
You will be guided through a series of foundational color experiments involving personal still life setups. These ideas will then be applied to simplifying landscapes while working from a photograph. Learn the fundamentals of oil painting in this intensive, structured developmental painting program. We’ll stress visual language elements such as composition, observational measurement,values,space,andmark-making.Inaddition,we’llutil a series of limited palettes to build strength and understanding of color theory and color mixing. Oil paint is the preferred medium, but students who are comfortable using acrylic or gouache are welcome to do so. COURSE CODE: PFPH Sec. 01: 10 Tuesdays, 9am-12:30pm. Begins Sep. 20 | $600
This course will explore figurative drawing as an artistic practice. We will begin with a study of construction and proportion and move into capturing a sense of gesture and light. All classes will be held with a live nude model. Appropriate for both the advanced artist or the beginner. COURSE CODE: DRFH Sec. 01: 9 Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30pm. Begins Sep. 21 | $330
STUDIO SCHOOL DRAWING Jeremy Durling | Artist, jeremydurling.com
This drawing class will use the figure as a basis - for under standing basic drawing elements such as line, form in space, spatial relationships, light and dark, gesture, and composition. Beginners will be welcomed and continuing students will also be challenged. Some classes might also include interior drawing, still life, and landscape. COURSE CODE: IDRW Sec. 01: 10 Wednesdays, 2-5pm. Begins Sep. 21 | $660
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