Painting & Drawing

Are you a beginning student and wish to improve your drawing skills? Or do you already have extensive experience with drawing and painting and wish to delve further into classical drawing techniques? Then you are welcome to join my program.
Like grandmasters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo, we put model drawing at the center of our work. Indeed, the human body is one of the most complex subjects to master. It challenges us to study drawing concepts, such as the correct rendering of proportions and tonality, but also trains our perception. Lessons learned about this are universal and can later be applied to other areas, such as landscape or portrait.

The direction “academic training in classical drawing” consists of two years: a first year (model drawing) and a second year (portrait drawing), each divided into three courses. Experience shows that students make the greatest progress when the course is completed in chronological order. However, if you wish to take only one section from the program, this is also possible (with the exception of the first two portrait courses).

Academic education classical drawing: model part two

In part two of the year-long model program, we delve into tone values: light, dark and everything in between. We learn how to translate tone values to the flat plane in such a way that we create a convincing illusion of the three-dimensional human body.

A step-by-step method, anatomy lessons, working by observation sculpture classes and a digital learning environment will help you do this, teaching you how to faithfully visualize something.