Students are introduced to painting the human form with a limited palette.

Value is the most important aspect of color as forms painted with abstruse values will not turn. Keeping color choices to a minimum allows the artist to achieve a deeper and more concrete awareness of how to use value to express form without the complications of color.

Over the course of the workshop, students will learn how to construct a painting from an energetic and loose start through to developed, rendered forms. Students will leave the workshop with an understanding of the importance of gesture, working loosely and accurately, the hierarchy of light, value, form modeling, and edge qualities.

Discussions will include the choices an artist makes when setting a long pose, such as taking into account the comfort of the model versus the dynamism of the pose, and the aesthetics of the abstract arrangement of light and shadow. While simple anatomy will be discussed due to its inherent importance in understanding the human form, attendees are encouraged to bring anatomical reference books of their choosing to assist them with complex forms during poses.

Jarred Fisher, is an Advanced Fine Art Program graduate and a principal instructor in the school’s partnership teaching high-school students at Doane Academy, Burlington, NJ. Jarred, who works in oils and metalpoint, has works in many private collections and he has exhibited in numerous group shows and solo shows. A graduate of the Delaware College of Art and Design, he has received first place awards in numerous exhibitions. Delaware’s Happening magazine named him to its “Happening List” as an artist.