Deriving inspiration from the recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Jacques Louis David: Radical Draughtsman, I am offering a unique opportunity to learn from the neoclassical drawing methods used by Jacques Louis David.

How can artists get the most from the drawings and paintings of the neoclassical masters? We all take inspiration from these beautiful, highly skilled works, but how can we use them to improve our own artistic practice? This 4 week course shows you how to use the works of David as a base to improve your own drawings, concentrating on elements of style, form, anatomical detail, drapery, materials, shading and composition. Through exercises and demos, you will learn to understand the techniques of this French Master and how to translate these skills into your own works. Our aim is not simply to copy these drawings, but to understand more deeply the anatomical structures of the body, the composition of the work, and the language of drawing in order to develop your own style.

Over the course of six weeks, we will focus on three individual poses from celebrated historical paintings and/or sculpture, and compare them to model images, in order to develop our conceptual and observational understanding of form, structure, and morphology. For each pose we will spend a week analyzing the master reference (i.e. looking at how to draw the structure and forms by breaking down the anatomy of the pose as rendered by the master artist) followed by a week drawing from photographic images of a model who will assume the same pose. Comparing the master reference image to that of the life model not only enables us to explore the movement and motion of the body, but also provides a deeper understanding of what the skeleton and muscles are doing when arranged in a specific pose. This course will therefore help you render dynamic movement and translate your knowledge of the human body into better drawings.

Relief sculpture is an art form that bridges the skills and talents of the painter and the sculptor. In this class you will learn the skills of bas-relief and create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a clay surface. Over the course of 8 weeks we will focus on the techniques of sculpting the head and shoulders. We will learn how to resolve the difficult elements of the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears as well as how to put these together within the head as a whole.

We will use the same composition as a base in order to focus on skills and techniques, but you are encouraged to develop this into your own piece.

This class uses examples from master artists of the past—the ancient Greeks, the Italian Renaissance Masters, the Neoclassical Movement—to learn how to draw the figure. We will take inspiration from a range of examples in different artistic fields (drawing, sculpture, painting) to improve our own artistic practice and ways of understanding the figure.

This course shows you how to use the works of (e.g.) Praxiteles, Raphael, Caravaggio, or Canova as a base to improve your own drawings, concentrating on elements of style, form, anatomical detail, materials, shading and composition. Through exercises and demos, you will learn to understand the techniques of master artists of the past and how to translate these skills into your own works. Our aim is not simply to copy these works, but to understand more deeply the anatomical structures of the body, how they fit together, and the language of drawing in order to develop your own style.

This online class uses examples from master artists of the past—the ancient Greeks, the Italian Renaissance Masters, the Neoclassical Movement—to learn how to draw the figure. We will take inspiration from a range of examples in different artistic fields (drawing, sculpture, painting) to improve our own artistic practice and ways of understanding the figure.

This course shows you how to use the works of (e.g.) Praxiteles, Raphael, Caravaggio, or Canova as a base to improve your own drawings, concentrating on elements of style, form, anatomical detail, materials, shading and composition. Through exercises and demos, you will learn to understand the techniques of master artists of the past and how to translate these skills into your own works. Our aim is not simply to copy these works, but to understand more deeply the anatomical structures of the body, how they fit together, and the language of drawing in order to develop your own style.

Relief sculpture is an art form that bridges the skills and talents of the painter and the sculptor. In this class you will learn the skills of bas-relief and create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a clay surface. Over the course of six weeks we will focus on the techniques of sculpting drapery. We will learn about the fundamental elements and principles of drapery and its construction in order to produce convincing and effective sculpted fabrics.

Improve your drapery skills with this class!

We will use the same composition as a base in order to focus on skills and techniques, but you are encouraged to develop this into your own piece.

This class uses examples from master artists of the past—the ancient Greeks, the Italian Renaissance Masters, the Neoclassical Movement—to learn how to draw the figure. We will take inspiration from a range of examples in different artistic fields (drawing, sculpture, painting) to improve our own artistic practice and ways of understanding the figure.

This course shows you how to use the works of (e.g.) Praxiteles, Raphael, Caravaggio, or Canova as a base to improve your own drawings, concentrating on elements of style, form, anatomical detail, materials, shading and composition. Through exercises and demos, you will learn to understand the techniques of master artists of the past and how to translate these skills into your own works. Our aim is not simply to copy these works, but to understand more deeply the anatomical structures of the body, how they fit together, and the language of drawing in order to develop your own style.

This class uses examples from master artists of the past—the ancient Greeks, the Italian Renaissance Masters, the Neoclassical Movement—to learn how to draw the figure. We will take inspiration from a range of examples in different artistic fields (drawing, sculpture, painting) to improve our own artistic practice and ways of understanding the figure.

This course shows you how to use the works of (e.g.) Praxiteles, Raphael, Caravaggio, or Canova as a base to improve your own drawings, concentrating on elements of style, form, anatomical detail, materials, shading and composition. Through exercises and demos, you will learn to understand the techniques of master artists of the past and how to translate these skills into your own works. Our aim is not simply to copy these works, but to understand more deeply the anatomical structures of the body, how they fit together, and the language of drawing in order to develop your own style.

Relief sculpture is an art form that bridges the skills and talents of the painter and the sculptor. In this class you will learn the skills of bas-relief and create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a clay surface. Over the course of six weeks we will focus on the techniques of sculpting a figure. We will learn how to resolve the difficult elements of the head, torso, legs and arms as well as how to synthesize these harmoniously and proportionally together within the figure as a whole placed convincingly upon a ground plane.

We will use the same composition as a base in order to focus on skills and techniques, but you are encouraged to develop this into your own piece.