Rick Fox - 2-Day Fundamentals Toolbox: Drawing for Painters (Online); Tuesdays, August 2 & 9, 2022

Date: Tuesdays, August 2 & 9, 2022
Time: 9:30-11:30 AM Pacific Time (12:30-2:30 PM Eastern Time/5:30-7:30 PM London Time)
Level: All
Medium: Drawing in charcoal

This workshop is for anyone wanting to brush up on the nuts and bolts of translation.  Artist Rick Fox will share the tools and techniques that he uses to manage information.

Want to see and organize more realistically? Want to fill in gaps and gain confidence to break from realism? Over the two days we will be taking on the big issues that arise when processing information from the 3-D world onto to the 2-D surface.

Toolbox demos will include: 1 + 2 point perspective, sighting angles, points of articulation, using horizontals and verticals, proportion and relationship, the rectangle and harnessing edges.

Supplies:

2 pencils, vine or willow charcoal, black conte crayon, hard plastic eraser (Staedtler), large white paper (18×24”)

Artist Rick Fox is a painter who is fascinated by perception and the challenge and complexity of the translation of the “world” to a surface. Seduced by color, his current primary practice is plein air painting. A resident of southern Maine, Fox is currently represented by Gallery NAGA, Boston, and JP Art Gallery, London.  In 2019 Rick was a Ballinglen Artist Foundation Painting Fellow in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland. And in 2018 he was awarded two residencies: Playa Artist Residency (Summerlake, Oregon) and 2^nd Annual International Plein Air Symposium, sponsored by the Mark Rothko Center (Semenova, Latvia).  Rick has been teaching painting and drawing full-time at the University of New Hampshire since 2010.  rickfoxpaintings.com