Workshops

Robert Liberace
www.robertliberace.com
DISEGNO E COLORE: Great Traditions Explored
August 23 - 27, 2010
$750
LEVEL: Advanced - Intermediate

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Join Rob for this five day workshop on beautiful Whidbey Island in the historic town of Langley
This class explores the two great traditions in classical art, drawing and color, through a comprehensive study of their materials and methods. Since the 16th century these two ideas, represented originally by the Florentines and Venetians in Renaissance Italy, influenced and inspired artists right up to the 21st century. With the "disegno" approach students will use drawing materials with a clear linear character such as silverpoint and ink line.
The "colorito" approach involves more mass oriented drawing materials
such as charcoal, pastels and ink wash.
The painting method stresses the broad application of paint with an emphasis on color resulting in pictures with an atmospheric subtlety. The first two days will concentrate on drawing using the traditional mediums of pen and ink, silverpoint, washes and chalk.
Day three, four, and five will be focused on painting both the portrait and figure.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of America’s foremost portrait artists and teachers. Rob is a contemporary classicist inspired by the old masters. He is equally gifted in painting, drawing, and sculpture. In February 2006, he was selected by The Artist's Magazine as one of their choices for the toP twenty realist artists under the age of forty. In April of 2003 Rob received the Grand Prize Award in the International Portrait Competition from the Portrait Society of America. In 2002 he won their Best of Show Award. Rob has been commissioned to do portraits for clients such as George Bush, Ambassador Sol Linowitz, and Marc Pachter, the director of the National Portrait Gallery. He is currently working on a life sized sculpture of Mother Teresa for the National Shrine.

Rob received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. at George Washington University where he was the recipient of the Morris Louis Scholarship and the National Academy of Arts and Letters Scholarship for painting. American Artist magazine honored Rob with their “Emerging Artist Award” and featured his work in their 1996 Art Master’s issue. Rob is perhaps best known for his classic and distinctive style of figure drawing. American Artist magazine highlighted Rob's drawing techniques as the cover feature in their May 2002 annual drawing issue. Rob is represented by the Arcadia Gallery in New York City and the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco.