Seeing Me Seeing You: Figurative Drawing
Registration
Sara Hartland-Rowe
Monday to Friday, August 19 – August 23, 2024
10:00am – 4:00pm
This five (5) day drawing workshop starts in the studio with the basic elements of figurative work: gestural studies, proportion, building form with light and shadow, and the portrait head. The workshop then moves to rapid observational drawing in Lunenburg, considering the expressive meaning of posture, gesture and facial expression, the figure and its environment, and narrative. At the week’s close, we return to the studio to make large-scale narrative, figurative drawings.
Instructor demonstrations of materials and techniques will be accompanied by image-presentations looking at a range of figurative artists. This workshop will include use a live model. Participants should leave the workshop with a toolkit of possible approaches to figurative work.
Students should bring: (other materials will be provided)
- Newsprint block
- Bull-dog clips
- Masking tape
- Glue stick
- Easily portable sketchbook
- Vine and compressed charcoal
- Eraser
- Pencils
- 3 sheets Rosapina paper, large format (70x100cm; 27”x40”) (any large format drawing paper will work)
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.
Sara Hartland-Rowe
Sara Hartland-Rowe attended NSCAD (BFA 1990) before moving to Chicago for post-graduate work (MFA, UIC Chicago, 1993). She returned to Halifax in 2000.
Hartland-Rowe has exhibited across Canada, and in the US, South America, and Europe. Significant solo and two-person exhibitions include Small World (Museum for Textiles, 1998), Days Are Where We Live (Museum London, 2000), The World in the Evening (Dalhousie University Art Gallery, 2002), The Prince (Durham Art Gallery, 2003), all things good and pure (Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2004, Look to the Living (MSVU Art Gallery, 2012) and sweet, sweet painting, (Hermes Gallery, 2020). Travellers (2014), a permanent public art commission for Halifax Transit, was a finalist for the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia’s Masterworks Award, 2015. Hartland-Rowe and three NSCAD students recently completed a commission for the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax. Hartland-Rowe has received funding from national and provincial arts councils; her work is in private and public collections.
Bookings
Registrations for this workshop are now closed.