Sculpture class, week 2

Jon deMartin article

GCA instructor Jon deMartin has an article in the current issue of American Artist Drawing Magazine called "Drawing Fundamentals: The Cylinder.". deMartin teaches short & long pose figure drawing on Wenesday nights as well as summer workshop classes.

Sculpture class, day 3

Recommended shows in New York

Right now there are some great shows in New York, here are a few that will be closing in the next few months, so check them out soon!

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Raphael to Renoir, Drawings from the collection of Jean Bonna, through April 26 2009

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, head of a young girl, 1770, red chalks on paper

At the Morgan Library: The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings, through May 3 2009

Paul Gauguin, Study for Breton Girls Dancing, 1888, pastel and charcoal, with watercolor and gouache, on cream-colored paper.

At the New York Historical Society: Audubon's Aviary, original watercolors and prints, through April 5 2009

John James Audubon, Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), Havell plate no. 137, 1829.

At the Hammer Galleries (33 W 57th St, close to school): Artist, Model and Muse: Women in 19th & 20th Century Art, through April 30 2009

Thomas Anshutz, Portrait of Helen Thurlow, 1910, pastel on linen canvas

Sculpture class -end of February pose

Student work - end of February

Angela Cunningham


Joshua LaRock

Carol Broman


Elisabeth Ehmannn



Amelia Landes


Carol Broman


Joshua LaRock

new portrait class

Introducing a 4-hour, short pose portrait class!

Tuesdays, starting in March
5:30 - 9:30pm
$150

Instructor: Josh LaRock

Sara by Josh LaRock

Short Pose Portrait Drawing and Painting
In this course, students will explore all the fundamentals of drawing and painting a portrait in one 4-hour session. We will focus on a fast and accurate block-in supplemented with a knowledge of the internal structure of the head to achieve a likeness and prepare for form modeling. Students will then work towards a clear understanding of the various phenomena of light on form and use hue, value and chroma to complete a fully rendered piece. Beginning to advanced painters are welcome.


About Josh LaRock:
Joshua LaRock (b. 1982) graduated in 2005 from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Business. While working within the music industry, Joshua quickly found that the call to be an artist had become too compelling and began looking for traditional places of study. From 2006 to 2009 he studied classical drawing and painting at the Water Street Atelier under the instruction of Jacob Collins. While there he was also instructed by Travis Schlaht, Douglas Flynt, Camie Davis and Scott Waddell.

Joshua's work has been exhibited at Meredith Long & Company, Anderson Fine Art Gallery, and Atlanta Art Gallery. He has received a First Place Award in the Drawing Category of the Art Renewal Center's 2007 International Salon and a First Place Award in their 2008 Scholarship Competition. http://www.joshualarock.com

Portrait Sculpture night class

This sculpture by Lauren Sansaricq is a great example of how students in this class start out by copying the plaster head seen to the right.

Beginning Portrait Sculpture, taught by Jiwoong Cheh is open for enrollment. The class meets on Wednesday nights from 6:30-9:30 PM. For more information click here.


Once students have completed a copy of the plaster head, they begin sculpting from the live model, seen here.

redecorating

Over the weekend Chris, our amazing fix-everything-guy (and full time core student) organzied a crew to put up bulletin boards in every studio so we could hang up all our drawings and paintings. Today all kinds of great work was coming out of the closets and I took these photos to share on the blog. Now if you visit the school you'll be able to see a lot more student work on the walls.





by Emilie Lee


by Philip Salamone


by Connie Netherton


Brandon Beckstron working on a still life


by Arturo Garcia (in progress)


detail of Arturo's still life

Studio Talks: Artists on Artists (open to the public!)

Join us for informal, afternoon studio talks by artists about artists.

GCA's South Studio
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Refreshments will be served

Patrick Connors talks about THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL OF PAINTING
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
rsvp: grandcentralacademy@gmail.com

Altercation by Walter Stuempfig

The Philadelphia School of Painting
Western Art's schools of painting, starting in Trecento Sienna and continuing through to those of the 19th and early 20th centuries, reflect temporal and regional influences in classic illusionistic pictorial space. The vitality and longevity of this nearly 700-year tradition was possible because it transmitted a body of knowledge, based on a tested and true intellectual foundation, which could be taught, learnt, and expanded upon. Within any particular "academy" of visual thought is the individual "eye", those persons who re-present Renaissance thought in a personal expression and without who there would be no school. This lecture examines the individual imaginations of some of the proponents of the 19th- and 20th-century Philadelphia School of Painting, including, although not limited to: Thomas Eakins, Susan McDowell Eakins, Cecilia Beaux, Walter Stuempfig, and Arthur DeCosta.


About Patrick Connors
Patrick Connors is a 1980 graduate of the Certificate Program of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There, he studied primarily under Arthur DeCosta and was awarded the Perspective Prize. In 1982 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. His work is exhibited internationally and is included in both private and public collections.
He has lectured at Yale University Art Gallery, Water Street Atelier, Drexel School of Medicine, Classical America [Philadelphia Chapter], and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is the published author of the following articles: "Through the Picture Plane: The Poetry in the Pictorial Space of Thomas Eakins"; "The Chiaroscuro and the Ambiguity of Gloom"; "The Oil Sketch and Representationist Thought in the Philadelphia School of Painting"; "The Art of Sacred Devotion," and "The Legacy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts."

connorsfinearts.com