Instructor: Julia Morgan
Monday - Thurs
June 29 - July 2
9am - 1pm
4 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Weds, 1pm - 4pm 

This class explores the human form with charcoal, graphite, and watercolor working mostly from the nude model. We begin with contour drawings, gesture exercises, and direct brush paintings, progressing to ‘mapping’ out the figure with graphite before laying in watercolor washes. We’ll work to find both the solidity and dynamism of each pose.  With watercolor, we’ll begin working monochromatically, then explore simple color mixes based on color temperature. A variety of exercises including brush handling, exploring negative space, and developing value to color, will strengthen our figure paintings. Poses will mainly range from 5 minutes to 20 min often beginning with quick gesture drawings. By the end of the week we may work with several longer poses. We’ll work both in studio with the nude and draped figure and outside with the clothed figure for variety, if weather allows. Supportive group critique/discussions during and/or at the end of each class aim to inspire, encourage, and challenge students to meet their individual goals.

Julia Morgan’s paintings, drawings, videos, and installations have been screened and exhibited at venues such as MOCA Taipei, the Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt, the Luxor International Painting Exhibition, Transartfest, Berlin, Germany, the Brattleboro Museum of Art, the New York Studio Gallery, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Media, the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA, and Kidspace at MassMoCA also in North Adams, Massachusetts. She leads art travel courses in Egypt, India, France and the US. She made a series of paintings and shot street video in Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution that was profiled by Time Magazine Video. Stills from her film, Gestures of Time, were published in “Infinite Instances” edited by Olga Ast and published by Mark Batty Publisher. She holds an MFA from Vermont College and currently teaches painting and drawing at New England area colleges.

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