Dan Thompson Workshop
The Human Figure: A Comprehensive Strategy
DATE: August 27 - 31, 2012
COST: $650
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate/advanced
Structural Figure Drawing
To draw beautifully from the human figure, visual phenomena can be analyzed as both shape and form. Seeing the body in different ways requires skill, discipline and, by combining aspects, a sense of strategy. This drawing workshop is presented as a way of studying the long-posed nude in complementary stages. In part one, the figure will be set up in a two-day long pose and work can begin on gesture, proportion, shape and orientation of the architectonic masses. In part two, the human figure will be explored through tone, plane, construction, structural anatomy, and finally morphology. Students should expect to absorb a great deal of strategy through their visual records, their drawings, and of the overall experience.
Painting the Figure
It will be structured as a course covering a broad range of painting issues, from color control and paint handling, to the kind of brush work required to abbreviate form, to texture and detail. After an initial overview by the instructor, students will be encouraged to explore the figure, applying the information and/or the experience of Structural Figure Drawing to paint intensively on a full day model pose. The instructor will teach through demonstrations and personal critiques. The model will assume the same pose as the previous sessions. Students will be instructed on designing a figure in the environment while integrating action, proportion, shape, landmark, orientation, grisaille, anatomy, alignment, structure, color and morphology into a seamless approach.
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Dan Thompson's Bio
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Dan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.
He has been awarded two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 2006 Dan Thompson co-founded the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York. In 2008, he co-founded the Janus Collaborative School of Art in New York. Dan Thompson has also instructed privately at Studio 126 in New York and is on the faculty of Parsons the New School for Design, the New York Academy of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and Studio Incamminati, in Philadelphia, PA. He has demonstrated and taught workshops in San Francisco, Seattle, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Washington, D.C, and Sarasota, FL. He has also demonstrated and instructed internationally in Toronto, Canada, Subiaco, Italy, and in the Provence region of France. In 2007, Thompson was selected an ARC Living Master Artist.
Since 2002 Mr. Thompson has demonstrated portrait drawing and painting and served as a juror and board member for the Portrait Society of Canada’s International Portrait Conference in Toronto. He has also lectured at the Dahesh Museum of Art, served as a speaker at Studio Incamminati’s Advanced Portrait Workshop and Symposium, and written on technique and painting practice for several art publications across the United States.
Dan’s work can be found in the collections of Forbes Magazine, New York, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Joh. Barth & Sohn, in Nuremburg, Germany, and in public and private collections throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.
