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The Museum School at PAAM - Summer 2008
Through a painting we can see the whole world. – Hans Hofmann
Traditional Life Drawing with Larry Collins, June 23-26 1-4:30PM, $300

In this concentrated course for beginners and advanced students we will be drawing from the live nude model and learning the basics skills needed to produce successful traditional figure studies. Our goal will be the objective representation of the figure rather than exploring its expressive possibilities. Basic drawing skills will be presented geared to produce the illusion of three-dimensional form, such as the use of overlapping contours, diminution of size, convergence of parallels, modeling in light and shade, measuring, analyzing diagonals, drawing cylinders, conceptualizing the forms of the body, basic proportions, foreshortening, composition, gesture, and logical procedures. We will learn how to overcome the common pitfalls that discourage and frustrate legions of artists who draw the figure. In addition, an introduction to basic artistic anatomy will be presented.

Materials:
Soft vine charcoal
Soft charcoal pencil
Drawing pad, medium or rough surface, 18” x 24”
Larry Collins is a painter and photographer living and working in Provincetown. He studied painting at the University of Oklahoma (BFA), Indiana University, and the Massachusetts College of Art (MFA). He was an infantryman and combat artist for the U. S. Army in Vietnam in 1968-1969. He has been a professor of art at the Massachusetts College of Art, the University of New Hampshire, and Montserrat College of Art. He has collaborated on books of poetry and art with Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Eileen Myles. His work has been exhibited widely in the U. S. and Europe and is in many private and institutional permanent collections including the Worcester Art Museum, New York Public Library, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Boston Public Library. He has received artist’s grants from the New Hampshire Council on the Arts and a Creative Arts Studies Fellowship for travel in Italy. He is the former director of the Driskel Gallery at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown and the current director of Larry Collins Fine Art.