Day 15

Day 15

We have reach the end of the summer course. So much work was produced during the last three weeks! Our last day was a celebration …

 

Day 14

Day 14

Today was dedicated to more experimental drawing techniques. We worked on a collaborative stop animation project. All the students took turn in drawing on the erasable …

 

Day 13

Day 13

The day was spend doing a portrait workshop. We studied average proportions of the human head and face as well as the work of painter …

 

Day 12

Day 12

We had a fantastic ‘field trip’ to Auvers sur Oise today, where Van Gogh spend the last 70 days of his life and produced some …

 

Day 11

Day 11

Today there was a lot of laughing in the studio as we experimented with blind contour drawing. We had two models to draw, Miguel and Maria. …

 

Day 10

Day 10

Today, we went out to draw Parisian architecture. Students were asked to observe and sketch a facade of a building along the river Seine in …

 

Day 8

Day 8

We spent the day out. We walked across the Jardins des Tuillerie to the Musee d’Orsay. There, we visited the impressionist and post impressionist painters: Degas, …

 

Day 7

Day 7

We had a very full day in the studio today. The main focus was the study of values as a graphic way to represent light …

 

Day 6

Day 6

After a long and well deserved three day break and fun Bastille day celebration, the students got back to class today. We studied perspective drawing. In …

 

Day 5

Day 5

We had a guest lecturer today: Genevieve Gauckler. She is a fantastic artist, designer and illustrator living in Paris and working internationally. She discussed her …