Upcoming Events:
Spring/Summer 2008 Schedule
Session
runs from Monday, April 21st - Friday, July 11th
Fall/Winter 2008 Schedule
Session
runs from Monday, September 15th - Friday, December 12th
If you are interested in attending a session please contact FALC
Fine Arts League Art Gallery
open Monday
– Friday 10am-5pm
(ring bell to enter)
Or call for appointment
Night Drawing Sessions
Beginning Tuesday, January 7th
Runs every Tuesday & Thursday
7pm-9pm
$5.00
Long and short poses
Bring own supplies
Summer
Intensive Courses at the Fine Arts League
Botanical Drawing – Peter Loewer
Dates: July 14-18 (note date change)
Schedule: 10 –2pm
Cost: $135.
Maximum: 14
Minimum: 7
Materials: Materials list to be provided to students
Learn about the intricacies of a flower or capture the
delicate essence of a fern frond while you tune your powers of observation, and
learn how to really "see." We will draw (and possibly write), observations in a
diary or sketch book and you'll learn more than any camera ever taught. Using
the local landscape for inspiration, students will draw flowers, leaves, even
mosses and lichens. The class is appropriate for the beginning student in
addition to the accomplished artist. Scratchboard techniques and linocuts
included.
Bar Relief – Lothar Jobczyk
Dates: July
14-18
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9-2pm
Cost: $125.
Maximum: 10
Minimum: 6
Materials: $45 per person
Students will work on slate rock, carving their own bar
relief composition. They will learn about the history of the art form as well
as its various tools for beginning and finishing the piece. Class will take
students from design and creating your own sketch for your work to understanding
and practicing with tools. After this introduction students will carve their own
project.
Etching - Michael Smith
Dates: July 14 - 18
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9-12pm
Cost: $250.
Maximum: 6
Minimum: 4
Materials: list will be provided
This course will incorporate
traditional techniques and materials to produce copper and zinc plate etchings
and drypoint etchings. We will look at examples of etching from a historical
prospective. Students will learn procedures to prepare plates such as burnishing
and polishing.By week's end, students will learn how to work with etching plates
(zinc etch), inking plates (copper etch), printing plates (use of etching
papers and use of press) and the re-working of plates.
Artistic Anatomy – Roger Nelson
Dates: July
21-25
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9-12:30pm and 2-5:30pm
Cost: $425.
Maximum:15
Minimum:5
Materials: Materials list to be provided to students
This week long class will meet twice a day, each session pairing a 1 hour
lecture on human anatomy with 2.5 hours of drawing from a live model. Students
will learn about different parts of the body and their proportional
relationships to each other. Students will learn how to draw in various media
and under different time constraints, ranging from 1 to 20 minutes.
Youth Week - Christopher Holt
Dates: July 21-25
Schedule: Mon-Fri 9:00am-1pm
Cost: $200.
Maximum: 12
Minimum: 6
Materials: to be provided
During this workshop students will be exposed to the curriculum at the Fine Arts
League for training classical realists. Students will work on anatomy and figure
drawing, portraiture, making ink and a reed pen and using them for landscape
drawing, as well as sizing and toning paper. They will also gain insight into
the work it takes to become a professional artist. This experience will
introduce art students to possibilities for their own work as well as help them
make decisions about their artistic futures. Recommended for Middle and High
School Students.
Handmade Sketchbook – Annie Fain Liden
Dates: July 21 - 25
Schedule: 3 –6 pm
Cost: $145
Maximum: 10
Minimum: 4
Materials: Both
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Materials list to be provided to student and fee
This class will make sturdy, hand-bound sketchbooks ideal for landscape artists
working out of doors, the adventurous traveler or the home studio artist.
Students will be introduced to making two book structures from scratch: 1) a
non-adhesive, soft leather long-stitch book structure and 2) the incredibly
durable and ancient, hardcover Coptic binding. While mastering these two
bindings, students will learn to consider their particular needs as an artist in
the field and learn to incorporate those needs into the structure of the book.
Stone
Carving – Lothar
Jobczyk
Dates: July 28-
Aug 8
Schedule: 2x Mon-Fri, 9-2pm
Cost: $125.
Maximum: 10
Minimum: 6
Materials: $85 per student
This is a two week course where students will work with Soapstone to carve in
three-dimensions. They will learn about the history of various stone media and
the tools used to work and refine them. Three dimension composition and design
issues will be emphasized as student develop and finish their piece.
Portrait - Nathan Bertling
Dates: July 28 – Aug 1
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 10-1pm
Cost: $235
Maximum: 8
Minimum: 6
Materials:
List provided to student
Over the course of five days, students will be instructed in drawing the
portrait from life. The instructor will guide the class in keeping with the
seven core principals of the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas : Form,
Simplicity, Proportion, Restraint, Discipline, Patience, and Will. Particular
attention will be given to the process of building a portrait drawing from start
to finish. The instructor will present key principals each day through lecture
and discussion. Just as importantly the instructor will illustrate the artistic
process by drawing a portrait alongside the students, thereby modeling the
approach. Each student will be offered assistance through personalized critique
and instruction.
John Mac Kah give a Landscape Technique Workshop
Roger Nelson teaches
Advanced Anatomy
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