Welcome to THE ATELIER OF FIGURATIVE ARTS with yours truly.
The idea of the “Atelier” is that we all work together on the same exercises and get something out of it. I get to create interactive and participative streams and videos and you get to learn from academic models, share your work and get critique from the community. It’s a fun way for us all to create, interact and learn together.
▶ Here's how it works:
Each week, I'll upload a Painting Assignment on Tuesday and a Drawing Assignment on Friday. I'll then cover it in a Live Stream or in a YouTube Video (make sure all your notifications are activated - Streams Are Tuesday and Friday 9PM UTC+1).
To download the Assignment Plate, you need to go to the dedicated Patreon Collection, here : [ Ссылка ]
Important: you don't have to be a Paid Member, all Free Members can access and download the Plates (it's free and open access, plates are CC-by-sa 4.0).
Then you just do the assignment (easy, right?) and you can post in the Discord when it's done or when you need help from the community.
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▶ The Atelier Mindset:
- We're not trying to make something artistic with these assignments but practice key artistic notions that aim towards improving realism.
- This method follows the Academic tradition so some of these are tough, the highest level of excellence should be your goal, don't botch your work!
- Don't improvise, follow the model exactly and stick to the instructions.
- Most Assignment plates have 3 difficulty levels, pick the right instruction for your level (level 1 is beginner Atelier student level, level 2 is approximately the second year of academic training and level 3 is the last year of classical training).
- Take your time, you don’t have to finish assignments in a week.
For those who want to learn more:
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➡ SYSTEMATIC DRAWING METHOD (Coming soon…)
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➡ ADVANCED PAINTING COURSE ON COLOR AND PAINT - A 9HR+ COURSE :
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I am an artist living and working in France. I paint mainly imaginative realism. I’m mostly self-taught, I learned the techniques of the Academy of the Nineteenth century by myself and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. On YouTube, I do mostly drawing and oil painting techniques videos in the Atelier tradition, I share thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists interested in picking up realism and classical figuration.
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Materials list:
Drawing
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Small mirror
✓ Graphite Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
✓ Charcoal: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
Oil painting
Palette
✓ Titanium White PW6
✓ Flake White (or substitute) PW1
✓ Cadmium Yellow light (or "lemon") PY35
✓ Yellow Ochre PY42
✓ Raw Umber PBr7
✓ Transparent Red Oxyde PR101
✓ Burnt Umber PBr7
✓ Venetian Red PR101
✓ Pyrrole Red PR255
✓ Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Ultramarine Blue PB29
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
✓ Cobalt Teal Blue (turquoise light) PG50
✓ Phthalo Turquoise PB15 + PG7
✓ Phthalo green yellow shade PG36
Brushes
✓ Filbert hog bristle and Synthetic sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Flat Synthetic brushes (same size)
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odorless mineral spirits
✓ Or Alkyd medium (Liquin, Galkyd, Flow'n'Dry etc.)
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
✓ Gesso and MDF panels are also great for studies
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