Drawing the Human Head
Saturday, July 14 - Tuesday, July 17, 2012
9am - 3:30pm
Instructor: Heather Spears
Early Bird Fee: $415 + 49.80 HST (Until June 1st)
Regular Fee: $460 + $55.20 HST
Model Fee: $30
Deposit: 115 + $13.80 HST
Supplies List TBA
To Register call 1-800-442-2787
Or click here for a registration form
Course Description:
Working in depth, concentrating on structure, musculature, placement on the shoulders. How the eye sees, how the brain perceives. Strategies to encourage the student to look rather than work from learned responses.
The real sources of likeness and recognition. Many examples from visual psychology and perceptual theory. The features – how to draw them without conceptual (learned) interference. The reading of facial expression. Stance: the importance of the position of the head on the shoulders.
Various models: infants and children: what constants make for likeness? The changes and constants of aging (explored through drawing a child and its look-alike parent). Drawing those of another ethnicity (with examples – drawings of Captain Cook and his crew by Japanese artists, Gauguin's Taihitians). Drawing the elderly. Opportunity to use colour, work with individual problems and/or interests.
History of the portrait as an art form, and present possibilities of the genre. Reasons for, and expectations of, the portrait through history. The head as image in different cultures. "Readings" of famous portraits – the student should now be able not only to see what is portrayed – but also to know exactly how.
Pressed charcoal, newsprint, drawing pencils. Pastel or paint if desired.
Bio
Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She is divorced and has 4 children. She has lived in Denmark since 1962. She has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11collections of poetry and 3 novels of speculative fiction (1991-96), the Moonfall Trilogy. The Flourish, (04) a novel of crime fiction and the family, came out in Canada and was republished in Europe as A Muted Voice (09). The Creative Eye (07), is the first of a series on visual perception. She has 3 books of drawings: Drawn from the Fire (89) Massacre (90); and Line by Line (02). Drawings from the Newborn (86), The Panum Poems (96) and Required Reading (00) contain both poems and full-page drawings. Her latest collection of poetry, I can still draw (08), was shortlisted for the Lowther Memorial Award. She has illustrated numerous books and articles; and also draws courtroom, dance, theatre and childbirth. Specialising in drawing children, in particular premature and other threatened infants, she travels widely and has drawn in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America.
Events Included:
~Friday, July 13th, 7pm: Welcome Reception - IMA Gallery (2323 Pooley Street) -Meet your instructor and pick up your student information packages.
~Saturday, July 14th, 5:30pm: Student BBQ - IMA Gallery - Free for students
~Saturday, July 14th, 7:00pm: Artist Talk with Sarah Anne Johnson - IMA Gallery - Free for students
~Sunday, July 15th, 7:00pm: Artist Talk with Peter von Tiesenhausen - IMA Gallery - Free for students
~Monday, July 16th, 7:00pm: Poetry Reading with Heather Spears - IMA Gallery - Free for students
Island Mountain Arts School Policies
- Registration: A (non refundable) deposit is payable upon registration. Final payment is due no later than seven days before a course begins. Please add 12% HST to adult courses.
- The registration deadline is two weeks before class start. Registrations will be taken after that date, space permitting.
- Refund: There are no refunds on course deposits. If full payment has been made, and a student withdraws from a course, 75% of the workshop fee will be refunded. Note - there are no refunds the final week before classes begin.
- Cancellation Policy: If Island Mountain Arts cancels a course due to insufficient registration, the entire fee will be refunded. Cancellation decisions are made two weeks before course start.
Island Mountain Arts
Box 65, Wells, BC V0K 2R0
1-800-442-2787 or 250-994-3466
Fax: 250-994-3433
info@imarts.com
www.imarts.com
Box 65, Wells, BC V0K 2R0
1-800-442-2787 or 250-994-3466
Fax: 250-994-3433
info@imarts.com
www.imarts.com