DOMINIQUE MILLAR - Artist
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      • Drawing for Beginners - 2 Day Workshop
      • Still Life & the Art of Composition
      • The Golden Age of British Landscape Painting
      • The Elements of Drawing
      • Art and Anatomy in Early Modern Italy
      • Galileo and the Visual Arts - The Unity of Science and Design
    • Previous Courses >
      • 2017 >
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Sustained Life Drawing with Red, Black and White Chalk on Buff and Blue Coloured Paper
        • Painting the Nude - the limited palette approach
        • Portraiture and the Passions
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners at The Makery
        • Principles of Beginners Life Drawing Workshop
        • Artistic Anatomy for Beginners: In the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners – from Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Union of Art History and Practice: the Renaissance and the "Rebirth" of Art
      • 2018 >
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Fundamentals of Drawing Weekend Workshop
        • Landscape Drawing Lessons from the Masters Weekend Workshop
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Drawing the Nude - 1 Day Intensive Sustained Pose
        • Pastels for Beginners and Intermediate
        • Portrait Drawing: Beginners to Advanced
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Oil Painting for Beginners
        • The Art of Competition: From the High Renaissance to the Baroque
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • Drawing the Animal Kingdom - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Drawing 101: A Beginner's Guide
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Learn to Draw with Pastels - Beginners & Beyond
        • Paradigms of the Baroque: The Art of Italy and the Dutch Golden Age
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
      • 2019 >
        • Drawing Essentials for Beginners - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Life Drawing for Beginners
        • The Sensual and the Sexual in the Art of the Renaissance and the Baroque
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Political Artist: David, Delacroix and Courbet
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Drawing Animals Workshop
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The "Divine" Raphael
      • 2020 >
        • Drawing for Beginners
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalk Pencils on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • Drawing Portraits
        • Drawing Landscapes
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Figurative Compositions with Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Joseph Mallord William Turner - the Sun is God!
        • The Cultural Disconnect of “Contemporary Art” - How Did We Get Here?
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners (Online Class)
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • How to Compose a Still Life Composition (Online Taster Class)
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want (Online Taster Class)
        • Painting in Spain: From the Escorial to the Enlightenment (Online Class)
        • Goya - A Painter for his Age (Online Class)
        • Still Life & the Art of Composition (Online Class)
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media (Online Class)
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms (Online Class)
      • 2021 >
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • John Ruskin - Victorian Art Critic & Social Activist
        • William Morris - Socialism & the Egalitarian Values of Craftsmanship
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Art Of Joseph Lycett & John Lewin: A Visual Window into Aboriginal Cultures of NSW
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Nicolas Poussin: Poetic Truth and Antiquarian Patronage in Baroque Rome
        • Art & Classical Subject Matter
        • Women Artists - from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
        • Art and the Bible
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Mixed Media
        • The Elements of Drawing
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The French Rococo: From Charles de la Fosse to Fragonard
        • Art and the Saints
        • Joshua Reynolds' Discourses on Art
  • Short poses
  • Studies
  • Portraits
  • Istoria
  • My Collection
  • Contact

The Principles of  Life Drawing from the Masters

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This course seeks to systematically outline and guide you through, some of the fundamental principles that lead to a comprehensive proficiency for drawing the human figure. In the space of seven weeks,  it summarises skills that could be repetitiously applied in a three to five year life drawing course; thus giving the student the necessary tools in a short time, to build on principles they can practice and repeat over a life time.                                                                       
 
Each week introduces the student to a new aspect of competent figure drawing. Included with this is a brief analysis of human anatomy, starting with the major masses of the skeleton and concluding with an analysis of each of the major muscle groups of the human body.
 
The course also lays a strong emphasis on learning from the drawings of the Old Masters. Students will be assigned a weekly drawing(s) to copy that relates to a specific principle studied during class. Furthermore, the life model’s pose - and where necessary lighting - will be set up to mirror the action in a drawing studied, in order to further aid the student in conceptualising its principles in the empirically observed figure.
 
        
Course Outline

  • Week 1.  Luca Cambiaso (1527 – 1585) – the figure as basic line and structure.               
  • Week 2. Luca Cambiaso (1527 – 1585) – the figure as line and structure.
  • Week 3.  Fundamental gesture and action
  • Week 4. Tintoretto (1518 – 1594) - Gesture and action with basic anatomical masses, landmarks and limited convexed contours
  • Week 5. Raphael Sanzio (1483 – 1520) – Basic anatomy and the figure as line and contour
  • Week 6. Ludovico Cardi, il Cigoli (1559 – 1613) – Basic modelling and shadow masses
  • Week 7. Andrea Sacchi (1599 – 1661) - The figure as convexed forms, basic shadow masses and modelling at the plane break.  
 

Planned Learning Outcomes:
 
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
 
  • Identify how the placement of the models weight coincides with the figures action.
  • Begin to understand and grasp the processes of conceptualising, selecting and creatively inventing from the figure.
  • Learning how to treat the figure as a “mannequin” rather than a static object to mindlessly copy and reproduce.
  • The ability to apply a basic knowledge of human anatomy to figure drawing, including the basic skeletal masses of the figure and muscle groups.
  • Understand the basic principles of suggesting form with line alone.
  • Making use of and/or inventing a light source to model form.
  • Being able to identify techniques and make use of Old Masters drawings within a contemporary drawing practice.
 

Drawing materials required:
 
  • Either charcoal, H, HB, B pencil, oil based hard red or black chalk pencil.
  • Kneadable eraser and razor blade / sharpener
  • A3 sketch book
  • Two metal paper clips

When:
Monday 6 February - 20 March 2017

Where:
WEA Sydney
72 Bathurst Street 


Student feedback:

'Great course, and I made a lot of progress in the 8 weeks. Dominique was a great teacher and I will be signing up to future courses.' - Caroline

'Very structured and thoughtful course. Homework each week  promoted learning. Tutoring at group level and individually was very good.'




  • Home
  • About
  • Teaching
    • Current / Upcoming Courses >
      • Drawing for Beginners - 2 Day Workshop
      • Still Life & the Art of Composition
      • The Golden Age of British Landscape Painting
      • The Elements of Drawing
      • Art and Anatomy in Early Modern Italy
      • Galileo and the Visual Arts - The Unity of Science and Design
    • Previous Courses >
      • 2017 >
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Sustained Life Drawing with Red, Black and White Chalk on Buff and Blue Coloured Paper
        • Painting the Nude - the limited palette approach
        • Portraiture and the Passions
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners at The Makery
        • Principles of Beginners Life Drawing Workshop
        • Artistic Anatomy for Beginners: In the Footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners – from Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Union of Art History and Practice: the Renaissance and the "Rebirth" of Art
      • 2018 >
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Fundamentals of Drawing Weekend Workshop
        • Landscape Drawing Lessons from the Masters Weekend Workshop
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Fundamentals of Drawing
        • Drawing the Nude - 1 Day Intensive Sustained Pose
        • Pastels for Beginners and Intermediate
        • Portrait Drawing: Beginners to Advanced
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Oil Painting for Beginners
        • The Art of Competition: From the High Renaissance to the Baroque
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • Drawing the Animal Kingdom - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • Drawing 101: A Beginner's Guide
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Drawing the Figure from Life - Beginner to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Learn to Draw with Pastels - Beginners & Beyond
        • Paradigms of the Baroque: The Art of Italy and the Dutch Golden Age
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
        • Drawing for Beginners - From Shapes to Figures from Life
      • 2019 >
        • Drawing Essentials for Beginners - One Day Workshop
        • Drawing with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Life Drawing for Beginners
        • The Sensual and the Sexual in the Art of the Renaissance and the Baroque
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Political Artist: David, Delacroix and Courbet
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Life Drawing for Beginners & Beyond
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing from the Masters
        • Drawing Animals Workshop
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The "Divine" Raphael
      • 2020 >
        • Drawing for Beginners
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalk Pencils on Coloured Paper
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • Drawing Portraits
        • Drawing Landscapes
        • The Creative Conventions of Portraiture
        • Life Drawing Beginners to Intermediate – The Sustained Pose
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Figurative Compositions with Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners - Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Joseph Mallord William Turner - the Sun is God!
        • The Cultural Disconnect of “Contemporary Art” - How Did We Get Here?
        • Draw with Red, Black & White Chalks on Coloured Paper
        • The Elements of Drawing for Beginners (Online Class)
        • Sketching with Pen and Ink
        • How to Compose a Still Life Composition (Online Taster Class)
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want (Online Taster Class)
        • Painting in Spain: From the Escorial to the Enlightenment (Online Class)
        • Goya - A Painter for his Age (Online Class)
        • Still Life & the Art of Composition (Online Class)
        • Learning to Draw the Landscape with Traditional Mixed Media (Online Class)
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms (Online Class)
      • 2021 >
        • Drawing for Beginners: How Simple Geometric Shapes Can Help You Draw Anything You Want
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • The Fundamentals of Drawing for Beginners
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Chalk Pastel Techniques of the Masters - Beginners to Intermediate
        • John Ruskin - Victorian Art Critic & Social Activist
        • William Morris - Socialism & the Egalitarian Values of Craftsmanship
        • Drawing the Nude in Chalk Pencil
        • The Art Of Joseph Lycett & John Lewin: A Visual Window into Aboriginal Cultures of NSW
        • Learning to Draw with Traditional Mixed Media
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The Principles of Life Drawing - Beginners to Intermediate
        • Nicolas Poussin: Poetic Truth and Antiquarian Patronage in Baroque Rome
        • Art & Classical Subject Matter
        • Women Artists - from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
        • Art and the Bible
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • Drawing with Mixed Media
        • The Elements of Drawing
        • The Principles of Drawing for Beginners: Basic Geometric Shapes to Living Forms
        • The French Rococo: From Charles de la Fosse to Fragonard
        • Art and the Saints
        • Joshua Reynolds' Discourses on Art
  • Short poses
  • Studies
  • Portraits
  • Istoria
  • My Collection
  • Contact