This workshop is designed for both beginning and experienced painters and will guide them through a series of exercises which teach the sequential stages necessary to paint a figure from life. Students will learn concepts and exercises taught at Studio Incamminati including finding the dynamic gesture, understanding light and shadow with a monochromatic grisaille, and understanding form with a limited palette ‘duo-tone”. Instructor demonstrations will include building a painting from simple shapes to complex form, and will clearly illustrate all concepts taught. Students use these fundamental exercises as a basis for building and developing a figure painting. The exercises will build in length and complexity and include finding the important anatomical landmarks of the figure and building form with values The student will leave the workshop with fundamental skills and exercises they can use in their ongoing growth and development, and a clear understanding of a sequence for moving through the opening and middle stages of a painting of the model from life.