THE OBJECTIVES OF MY WORKSHOPS AND THEIR STRUCTURAL OVERVIEW

To present to the students a comprehensive and structured path to building their visual language, concepts for understanding and developing artistic observation and how this differs from pedestrian (day to day) observation, and methods for translating these visual concepts into graphic statements. These concepts and methods are the foundation of illusionary drawing and painting and the building blocks for producing representational art i.e. portraiture, figurative, landscape etc... I believe strongly in my chosen medium of the graphic arts and I believe that exposure to this medium of representational art is a rewarding endeavor and the concepts and methods presented in my workshops will enhance any journey taken in the graphic arts.

The basic structural design of my workshops are steps or blocks followed in a linear path in which I will describe and demonstrate the step or block then I’ll have the students do the block or step while I move from student to student to give individual instruction. In this way I and the students move together on the project I work right along with the students it’s not a situation where I lecture and demonstrate and turn the time over to the students but we work as a group on the painting or drawing.