Atelier Drawing and Painting with Bill Graf | Saturdays 10am-1pm |10/26-11/16 | Fall 2024
Drawing | Available
This drawing and painting atelier style class with cover everything from the basics to the finer points of academic drawing and painting. Atelier-based training is a practice based on a thorough training of the eye and fundamentals stemming from the 1800s. These centuries-old practices have been making a full revival in recent year, and foundational atelier skills are now prevalent in countries all across the world, and especially in Fine Arts Academies throughout Europe. Atelier students hone their fine art skills through the practice of training the eye in observational drawing utilizing the "sight-size" method of drawing.
This course will incorporate working from the Charles Bargue Drawing Plates as a foundation for training the eye before students will move onto drawing from plaster casts. The instructor will demonstrate how to create the "construct" as well as showing how to see and render the subject fully.
Students with a firm foundation of knowledge in drawing fundamentals will move on to still life painting in this course.
- SUPPLY LIST:
Graphite Pencils - Derwent or Faber Castell - B, 2B, 4B, 6B
Paper: Canson XL bristol 96lb "two distinct side" (in green packaging)
Kneaded erasers
Pink or white solid eraser
20" x 30" foam core board
Small sketch book
Bill Graf
Bill Graf is a professional fine artist and art instructor of Watercolor, Oil, and Acrylic painting classes.
"Bill's teaching philosophy is that every student equipped with the right tools and instruction can succeed and excel at painting. Bill uses demonstrations to explain his techniques for all the mediums he teaches. That way beginners and advanced students benefit by watching his approach to painting and learn technique tips to use in their own paintings."
His extensive art career(s) as a fine artist and illustrator began after completing his drawing and painting studies at the Art Students League of NYC. He then went on to study Old Masters Painting and Drawing in Florence, Italy at the Cecil Graves Studio. He has been the recipient of numerous awards from the International Miniature Portrait Show of Montreal, NYC Students Art League Figure Drawing 1st Prize, Huntington NY Arts Council, NY Nassau County Art Leagues 1st Prize, Best in Show and honorable mentions as well as awarded the Frank J. Reilly Scholarship Award to name a few. He was also ommissioned to do a mural project depicting an American history scene which is displayed in the White House, Washington DC.