Figure Painting: Building Form

12/02/2025 - 12/16/2025 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Level: Beginner, Intermediate

Registration opens on 11/04/2025

Price

$258

Member Price

$219.3

Room: 106

200 Grant St Denver

Some experience with oils and working from life is encouraged.
This class will be held on Tuesday nights 12/2, 9, 16, and also on Thursday 12/11.

Tickets go on sale on 11/04/2025

In this class, students learn how to create a convincing three dimensional reality of the human form in their paintings.

Together we investigate the shapes of the human body and the conceptual principles of how light falls across and interacts with those shapes to create the illusion of form. Using a limited palette, students can learn these foundational principles without juggling the added complexity of full color. This method can act as an under painting for later explorations of long pose, or can be used as a final painting procedure.

This course is a continuation of the intro to figure painting class, but it is not required to have taken that course to sign up for this one.

This class is part of a year long course in learning to paint the human figure. Every 6 weeks a new class begins covering a different facet of figure painting: starting with an introduction to materials and short poses in the Fall, and ending with long pose, highly finished paintings at the end of the academic year in May. This allows students to “hop on and off” throughout the year to tackle relevant concepts to their practice, or to dive deep and sign up for the year.