This summer, Art Major Mitch Thoele was awarded the Mueller Fellowship. With Fellowship money, he was able to attend The Atelier in Minneapolis. He wrote of his experience:
"I signed up for a week long drawing workshop that consisted of three classes each day involving the techniques used by the Renaissance artists. The first class we used a plaster cast mold of either ancient faces or anatomical parts of the statue of David. I chose the ear from the statue of David. The method we used was called site size, meaning the plaster cast was on a board right next to our drawing paper so when it was completed it would be in theory the same size. The second class was a portrait class using the same method of site size but one had to adjust the drawing easel in order to get the head and shoulders of the model on the whole paper. The third class involved a nude model and using the site size method again. Each class was 3 hours long using both charcoal and graphite.
Overall, the experience was absolutely amazing. These classes help train the eye to see all the angle changes in the human figure. It was stressed the whole time I was there by the instructors to keep stepping back, look at your drawing and then look at the model or cast and make sure the proportions match up. No shading was done with the hands or any other instrument, it was all done with the charcoal. Within one week of classes I had learned a great deal on different tools such as a black mirror, sharpening vine charcoal to get the perfect shading, using a plumb line constantly to check proportions and angles. It will be in my future plans to go back to The Atelier for more workshops or classes."
©Mitchell Thoele
©Mitchell Thoele
©Mitchell Thoele
"I signed up for a week long drawing workshop that consisted of three classes each day involving the techniques used by the Renaissance artists. The first class we used a plaster cast mold of either ancient faces or anatomical parts of the statue of David. I chose the ear from the statue of David. The method we used was called site size, meaning the plaster cast was on a board right next to our drawing paper so when it was completed it would be in theory the same size. The second class was a portrait class using the same method of site size but one had to adjust the drawing easel in order to get the head and shoulders of the model on the whole paper. The third class involved a nude model and using the site size method again. Each class was 3 hours long using both charcoal and graphite.
Overall, the experience was absolutely amazing. These classes help train the eye to see all the angle changes in the human figure. It was stressed the whole time I was there by the instructors to keep stepping back, look at your drawing and then look at the model or cast and make sure the proportions match up. No shading was done with the hands or any other instrument, it was all done with the charcoal. Within one week of classes I had learned a great deal on different tools such as a black mirror, sharpening vine charcoal to get the perfect shading, using a plumb line constantly to check proportions and angles. It will be in my future plans to go back to The Atelier for more workshops or classes."
©Mitchell Thoele
©Mitchell Thoele
©Mitchell Thoele
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