Learn to draw the human head, July 2018

Seacoast Artists Association
130 Water Street, Exeter, NH 03833
(603) 778-8856  •  www.seacoastartist.org

HAVE YOU wondered where you go wrong when you attempt to draw a face or a portrait? In this class you will start by drawing a real skull, and then the planes of the face. We will add the skin, practice types of shading and learn to determine where the light is coming from and how that affects highlights and shadows. Then on to each part of the face: eyes, nose, lips, ears, and hair. You’ll practice faces in portrait, profile, and 3/4 view. Anyone can learn to draw the human head with the tools I will teach you. Learn how the parts of the head reflect each other, and understand how to see faces in a brand new way.

What to bring: A set of 12 or 24 drawing pencils (soft and hard), a battery operated pencil sharpener, a ruler,  9” x 12” Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Pad, kneaded eraser, white plastic eraser, blending stumps, a black fine line felt tip pen. Minimum class size is 3. Class size limited to 7.

Class starts: Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 and runs 8 weeks, 10:30am~12:30pm. Cost is $160.00.

To hold your spot: Please mail a check directly to the instructor:
Revelle Taillon, 26 West Pine Street, Plaistow, NH 03865.
For more information and to see if there is space left in this class, please call 603-548-6694 or email Revelle at rtaillon@comcast.net.

Class will be taught by Revelle Taillon, a hanging member of the Seacoast Artist Association. She holds a BFA in graphic design and illustration from ULowell and has won regional and national awards. She’s been teaching 6 years.

2016 is almost here!

It's been a while since I've posted, busy with teaching classes and getting ready for Christmas. My next 2 classes will combine beginners and intermediate students. "Colored Pencil for Beginners and Intermediate Students". I feel this will give the students who have taken my beginners classes, a chance to move forward with the security of still being a very new "intermediate" student. And those who are ready to move forward will receive more complex assignments and work with images that are more complex and a bit larger. And they will have a choice of 2 assignments, one less complex.

Same for my "Drawing the Human Head for Beginners and Intermediate Students". They will get to choose which of two assignments is more in their comfort level and feel secure that they can push themselves further with no fear and they can go back a step if they need to. I'll let you know how it works out!

We just had the first storm of the season yesterday, and it forced me to cancel 2 art classes, because of the icy streets. Hoping all other storms fall during the weekend!

My excellent students' work!

Here is another crop of my students work. We are studying how to draw the human head. I think they are coming long great! You can click on each of them to enlarge. Enjoy!

My new class

My next new class "Learn to Draw the Human Head" begins tomorrow. I purchased a replica of an actual human head, for the students to draw. I've been getting to know him and have named him "Sherlock" since he will help my students to uncover the secrets to drawing the human head. I'm really looking forward to this class. So many of my students have difficulty when I say, "okay now we will draw a face". Eyes don't line up, or they are too small or too high on the face. I can't begin to explain what I have seen represented as a "nose"! Lips usually aren't too bad but hair is always a problem. As for ears, they are hidden under the hair LOL!!! I'm hoping after this class, that all those problems will be corrected, at least for these students.

Image by Leonardo DaVinci.

NEW art classes for November! LEARN TO DRAW THE HUMAN HEAD

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