Drawing
Intensive
Life Drawing
Heather Spears
July 5 - 9, 2010
$405 + $45 modeling fee
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This course covers a series of experiments in visual attention. Drawing from the model, students will be considering questions about why they draw, the physical act of seeing and of drawing, and about what hinders them in drawing accurately - and what are so-called “mistakes” and what do they mean in terms of perception and the brain? What is choice and what is attention? We will work with movement and duration, and the translation into line. This is a course of instruction, but there is also time for drawing on one’s own. It is equally valuable for the beginner, for the advanced student, or for the professional artist. 
Heather Spears, Vancouver-born writer and artist, has lived in Denmark since 1962. She has published 13 poetry collections, five novels, and 3 books of drawings. She has taught drawing all her life. The Creative Eye (Arcturus 2007) is the first of a series of books about her method. Spears has won the Pat Lowther Award three times, (latest 2002), and The Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her newest collection is I can still draw (Wolsak and Wynne 2008). She specializes in drawing threatened infants, and has exhibited widely in Europe and America. www.heatherspears.com |
