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Bob is the Lead Teacher
Internationally for

His Corporate Sponsors Are:

Da Vinci Paint Co., Irvine California

Silver Brush Limited, Windsor NJ

Please Watch Here for Upcoming Workshop Dates

Jerry's Art Arama in Raleigh NC

5 JUNE 2010 - SEEING AS AN ARTIST SEES

10 JULY 2010 - MAKING MUD WORK FOR YOU

Color Mixing

At: JERRY'S ART-A-RAMA

3060 Wake Forest Rd.

Raleigh, NC 27609

Call Sharon DiGiulio at 919-876-6610

Artists League of the Sandhills
July 16th, 2010

Making Mud Work for You
129 Exchange St.
Aberdeen, NC
Call or visit the Artists League

1-910-944-3979

www.artistsleague.org

WORKSHOP OFFERINGS

In addition to those described below, he teaches both watercolor and oil painting workshops. If you would like him to come to your area, please contact him to make arrangements.

MAKING MUD WORK FOR YOU

Muddy and chalky color mixtures have plagued everyone at one time or another in their painting career. This one day workshop will reveal why this is so and how, not only to avoid the unintentional mixing of such colors, but to use them to your artistic advantage.

Through demonstration and practical application each participant will learn to see MUD (desaturated and neutralized colors) in the environment and then to mix the colors needed to create beautiful and appealing oil or watercolor paintings.

The two day workshop will further explore the principles of color mixing and color harmony while actually completing a small painting.

SEEING WORKSHOP
(One or Two days)

If you wish to be a successful artist, it is essential to take time to train yourself to see things accurately. All the latest painting techniques, gadgets, and gimmicks will not help you create a successful picture if you paint or draw what you know about an object or scene rather than reproducing what is actually right in front of your eyes.

Once you learn to see, you can draw or paint anything! There are many aids to seeing that artists have used for centuries. Participants in this workshop will learn how to use these aids to carefully observe and recreate what they see on paper or canvas. Various ways to measure, make comparisons, define values, see shapes, and identify colors will be explored.

Day one of the workshop will focus on the skills needed to accurately see angles, edges, values, spaces and shapes, and the relationship each has to the other.

Day two of the workshop will emphasize observing and identifying color. After this workshop, students will look at the world around them with new eyes and will have new “seeing skills” which will significantly improve their art.

DRAWING WORKSHOP 1

Once the skills taught in the Seeing Workshop are developed, Bob then takes the student to the next level of drawing by teaching the basics skills of drawing.

By guiding the student through the drawing process that generally carries the greatest level of fear, Bob will prove that any student can draw anything that he or she sees.

DRAWING WORKSHOP 2

Once the basic drawing skills are mastered, many pencil artists wonder what to do to make their drawings more lifelike. Regardless of the subject of a drawing, adding texture, increasing contrast, and controlling values will enhance and add a sense of realism. This workshop is designed for artists with some drawing experience who wish to learn techniques that will take their drawing to a new level of realism.

DRAWING PORTRAITS IN GRAPHITE AND CHARCOAL

Participants in this workshop will expand their repertoire of techniques for creating realistic portraits. Emphasis is placed on posing and lighting a model, photographing the model, the proportions of the average head, sighting the proportions and placement of the features of the head to get a likeness, drawing materials, application of drawing materials, blending techniques, using the erasers as drawing tools, and finishing the portrait.

Additionally, a greater emphasis is placed on methods of rendering the various textures of a typical portrait including: eyes, skin, mouth, hair, and fabric. Students will use graphite and charcoal pencils, powdered graphite and charcoal, as well as various blending techniques to create a wide variety of textures and a complete range of values.

Detailed demonstrations and individual instruction will guide each student to increased skill in drawing the human face. Examples of the instructors work will be available for close scrutiny, and questions about specific techniques are encouraged.

PORTRAIT PAINTING WORKSHOP

This workshop will begin after a likeness of an individual is achieved as a drawing. Topics to be covered will include the composing of a good portrait, the transferring of a drawn portrait from newsprint or tracing paper to a painting surface (canvas or panel), the under painting, the portrait palette of colors, mixing colors for the portrait, the application of paint and finishing the portrait.