Christopher Huffman: Foundation of Drawing. 4 Tuesdays 9:30 am-12:30 pm
Christopher Huffman: Foundation of Drawing. 4 Tuesdays 9:30 am-12:30 pm
4 Tuesdays
June 10, 17, 24 and July 1
9:30 am-12:30 pm
*3 spots left
In this weekly class, the fundamentals of drawing will be explored. Students will be given a variety of exercises to help them cultivate a deeper sensitivity both in seeing and in dexterity. Learning how to see is the first prerequisite of drawing. Technical skill can be learned but will be of little help if one has not first learned how to see what one is attempting to draw.
Drawing is a visual language comprised of line, values, shapes, proportions and the use of edges. Knowing how to use these can better help us “phrase” our drawings so they will be stronger, better executed and more expressive.
Among the exercises we will do:
Basic shapes: the foundation upon which everything is built.
Proportions
Blind Contour Drawing
Negative Space
Gesture Drawing
Value Drawing
Drawing with the Non-dominant Hand
Contour Hatching
Christopher Huffman
Christopher Scott Huffman, a native of Texas, has now lived in Tennessee most of his life. His journey into art started (or so he is told my his mother) when he began drawing at 3 1/2 years old. He knew from childhood he wanted to be an artist when he discovered Leonardo da Vinci and was mesmerized by his drawings. It was the closest thing to magic he could imagine and was captured by how someone could elicit, by the delicate use of line and shading, the extraordinary grace and beauty a human being could achieve in drawing. That set him on a path to explore other great artists, pre-eminent among them Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Peter Paul Rubens.
Christopher studied life drawing at Watkins Academy in Nashville and later taught life drawing as well as oil painting at the Watkins College of Art and Design. Offered a scholarship to the Memphis Academy of Art, he turned it down and instead devised his own curriculum, studying the methods of the European Masters as embodied in the Venetian, Flemish and Dutch Schools to learn painting.
He currently resides in Nashville and works in charcoal, graphics, oil and watercolor. He also conducts watercolor classes at the Centennial Art Center and has mentored individual students as well in drawing, in watercolor and in oil.
www.artbychristopher.com