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Bucks County Classical Arts Center
We are here to make the techniques and skills of the old masters accessible to everyone! Our mission is to empower our students to draw and paint at the highest level possible. We believe that drawing is a skill that can be taught. With guidance and clear direction you can achieve great things. Subscribe and get the latest in classes, events and drawing tips sent to your inbox!
In the studio lately And what's coming up, Oct 21 through Nov 20 Hello Reader, Classes are going well, so here's a look at what we've been up to, and what's next. This week's lesson: a portrait in grisaille on poster board. A burnt umber ground and some white to build a simple statement. The last landscape session of the season was a grey day. This actually made me happy because it simplifies color mixing and it turned into a lesson about types of grey color mixing. We had a successful photo...
Why Your Figures Look Like They're Falling Over It's almost never the anatomy Hello Reader, Here's a problem every figure drawer runs into: the proportions are fine, the shapes are right, but the figure still feels like it's about to tip over. Floating. Ungrounded. It's almost never an anatomy problem. It's a balance problem. The fix is two lines. An action line, a single clear statement of which direction the pose's energy is traveling. And a plumb line, dropped straight down from the pit of...
Why Some Drawings Just Look Right It's not talent, it's a method Hello Reader, Ever notice how some quick figure drawings just look correct, even loose ones, while others feel off no matter how much time went into them? It usually comes down to one thing: whether the drawing was built on structure, or just copied from what the eye saw first. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to share a few of the ideas behind this, the same ones we use in our Quick Sketch Figure Drawing class, which...