Rob Gutteridge, graphite on paper, 2018.

In this Summer School I teach my understanding of Russian academic figure drawing and painting as taught to me by Professors of Drawing and Painting at the I. Repin Russian Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia.

In July 2018 I studied academic figure drawing and painting at the Russian Academy’s Summer School. In my Summer School I teach the methods, materials, techniques and purposes underpinning Russian academic drawing and painting of the figure. Students work from life models. Students make 2 portraits (1 painting and 1 drawing), and 2 full figure studies (1 painting and 1 drawing). The medium for painting is oil. Drawings are in graphite pencil on stretched paper.

Dates: 13/1/20 – 24/1/20.
Times:
9am – 12pm drawing
12 – 1pm lunch
1 – 6pm painting

80 hours tuition
Where: Rob Gutteridge School of Art (RGCR), 49a, Whitmore Square, Adelaide, SA
5000
Minimum 4 students, maximum 10 students

Cost: $2,000.00 (10% discount for enrolled RGCR students, and other eligible
parties – see RGCR website: www.RGCR.com.au)
Model fees are included
Students supply their own materials.
Boards for stretching paper supplied by the School
To register your interest, contact Rob Gutteridge: robjgutteridge@gmail.com.au
Mobile: 0434965434

The workshop will only go ahead when 4 or more people register their intention to attend. An invoice will then be sent, together with materials list and detailed course content.

Rob Gutteridge, graphite on paper, 2019.

The purpose of constructive figure drawing is to explore the relationship between a figure’s form and its structure. Constructive figure drawing redirects our motivation for drawing, away from an exclusive focus on surface appearance, toward an examination of its underlying causes. The workshop teaches specific drawing skills, strategies and techniques to facilitate constructive drawing. Students are enabled to reconstruct the figure and its parts, through drawing exercises designed to direct their attention to relationships connecting underlying structure and surface form. Course content covers: proportion, essential anatomy, planar and ovoid form concepts, tonal drawing, contour drawing, rhythm, gesture, and detail to mass hierarchy in visual organisation.

As well as these direct learning outcomes, the indirect outcomes to a student’s drawing practice will be: confidence in gestural drawing, clarity of intention when life drawing, improved life drawing (and painting) wherein surface appearance is underpinned by structural integrity. Teaching and drawing resources for this workshop are from the cast collection and anatomical models at the RGCR.

Dates: 10/11/19 – 15/12/19. 6 consecutive Sundays
Times: 10am – 4.45pm (45 minutes lunch)
Where: Rob Gutteridge School of Art (RGCR), 49a, Whitmore Square, Adelaide, SA
5000
Minimum 4 students, maximum 10 students

Cost: $900.00 (10% discount for enrolled RGCR students, and other eligible parties)
To register your interest, contact Rob Gutteridge: robjgutteridge@gmail.com.au
Mobile: 0434965434

The workshop will only go ahead when 4 or more people register their intention to attend. An invoice will then be sent, together with materials list and detailed course content.

Rob Gutteridge, graphite on paper, 2019.

This workshop is for visual artists and students who want to know what composition is and how to use it. The workshop covers classical approaches to composition, geometry and tonal composition, and insights into visual organisation from the psychology of visual perception. It is based around a series of practical exercises designed to enable students to confidently engage with issues in composition. Session 5 (13/10/19) will be conducted at the Art Gallery of South Australia where students will make compositional analyses from original paintings.

Dates: 15/9/19 – 20/10/19. 6 consecutive Sundays
Times: 10am – 4.45pm (45 minutes lunch)
Where: Rob Gutteridge School of Art (RGCR), 49a, Whitmore Square, Adelaide, SA
5000; 1 session at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Minimum 4 students, maximum 10 students

Cost: $900.00 (10% discount for enrolled RGCR students, and other eligible parties)
Reserve your place by paying the invoice you will receive after registering your interest.
The course content and materials list follows.

To register your interest, contact Rob Gutteridge: robjgutteridge@gmail.com.au
Mobile: 0434965434

Attached is the program of 2019 Workshops in skills based realist art at the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism. RGCR drawing and painting workshops are tailored especially to the needs of realist artists, and are taught by Rob Gutteridge, the Director of the School.

Please email Rob Gutteridge to reserve a place in any of the workshops, or pass this information on to anyone you think may be interested in attending.

RGCR workshops are suitable for students of all levels, including high school students. Practicing artists wanting to develop new skills or improve those they already have are always welcome.

I recommend that the “Russian academic figure drawing” workshop is most suitable for intermediate to advanced students. The “Figure construction” workshop scheduled immediately before it is a useful introduction to the technical concepts involved in the “Russian academic figure drawing” workshop.

There are places for only 10 students maximum in each workshop. I will take advance bookings immediately.

Thank you for your interest in all things to do with making and appreciating realist art.

Rob Gutteridge.

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