Light Key Figure Painting Workshop

The workshop begins with a slide lecture and discussion, outlining the goal of learning to see light conditions on the human figure and utilizing a full-color palette to recreate these special observations. Then, through a series of fundamental exercises convey knowledge in stages, Students are taught how to capture a specific key on a still life. Multiple keys follow. The figure is then introduced and studied intensely. By painting many colored starts, students use week one to prepare for the second week which features a minimum four-day pose.