Description
JAFANG LU:
Direct Painting The Figure: Form and Color
5 Day Workshop
May 16 -20, 2022
10-5:30p
Tuition is $650 plus a $50 model fee
The goal of this workshop is to provide students with critical skills needed in developing a figure painting through close examination of its two integral components – form and color.
Through exercises in open/closed grisaille and color studies, JaFang will introduce information and concepts on value and color relationships. We begin the workshop focusing on the construction of the figure with accurate linear proportions and well calibrated value relationships. Much of the emphasis at this stage is on accuracy as well as a strong gestural and organic quality in the figure that comes from observing and painting the figure directly on the canvas without a detailed drawing underneath it.
Once students gain proficiency in form development, we then shift our focus to color where basic principles on color relationship and color calibration are introduced to enable students to accurately depict the complexion of the model and the lighting situation in the environment. The week begins with short poses and culminates in a long 2 to 3-day pose that will give students the opportunity to bring together skills they learned in the previous days to apply them to a long(er) pose. Instruction will include demos, lectures and individual critique at students’ easels. We will have two models posing on separate model stands to ensure that all artists will be have a good vantage point.
Instructor Bio:
JaFang Lu graduated from the City College of New York University with a B.A. degree. She studied drawing and painting at the Art Students’ League of New York and the New York Academy of Art with Peter Cox, Michael Burbon, David Klass, and Nelson Shanks. In 2002, Nelson Shanks and his wife, Leona Shanks, founded Studio Incamminati, a realist painting ateiler, with the vision of training the next generation of realist painters. He invited a few of his students to study with him, JaFang was among them. During her study at Studio Incamminati, she took workshops with Ted Seth Jacob, Anthony Ryder, Rob Liberace and Jon de Martin.
JaFang’s “Portraits of Philadelphians in Black and White” drawing project, which attempts to reflect the racial diversity in Philadelphia, was funded by the Leeway Foundation. She had shown at the Stanek Gallery, the Avery Gallery, the Artist House, the Freeman Gallery in Philadelphia, Bennington Center for the Art in Vermont, the Butler Institute in Youngstown Ohio, and the Manitou Gallery in New Mexico.
