Poetic Realities

Poetic Realities

PD-Class | This class has been canceled

600 St. Andrews Blvd Winter Park, FL 32792 United States

1A

Intermediate

1/24/2018-3/14/2018

1:30 PM-3:30 PM EDT on Wed

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$245.00

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Use your drawing skills to create abstract and semi-abstracts works of art. Students will learn four approaches that allow a more poetic, interpretative response when working from life and nature. Learn to create ambiguous space with two- and three-tone simplification pencil drawings, fragmentation (misalignment and repetition of details, and collage style arrangments of shapes and tones).

  • Drawing pad (17x14” Strathmore 400), HB and 2B graphite pencils, kneaded eraser, ruler.
Schmalstig, Dennis

A Central Florida art educator since 1992 at Crealdé School of Art, Valencia College and Rollins College, Dennis Schmalstig, earned a B.F.A. from Wright State University in 1983 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Delaware in 1987.  He has exhibited his work since 1982 in commercial and university galleries, and in national competitions.  He has had one-man exhibitions at the L.B. Jones and Susan Isaacs galleries in Wilmington, Delaware, at the Rikes Gallery at the University of Dayton, at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and at the Daytona State College Fine Art Gallery.  He has participated in small group shows such as "Representations" at Helio Galleries in New York, "Visionary Artists" and "Stories and Gestures" at the Jenkins Gallery at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida.  His work has been reviewed by Victoria Donohue in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philip Bishop in the Orlando Sentinel and Patricia Madden in the Orlando Weekly.