Visual Arts Content

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at

Lyme Academy College

of Fine Arts

SPECIAL TUITION RATE: $450 includes lunch, materials & fees

Nancy Gladwell

Randy Melick

Randy McIver

Three experienced members of the faculty of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts will teach thirty (30) hours of studio engagement in each of three subject areas: Painting, Observational Drawing, and Sculpture. Teacher participants may choose from among these three courses. 

Lyme Academy College emphasizes representational art and the acquisition of observational skills, development of hand and eye coordination, conceptual understanding, and historical contexts relevant to the project.  Syllabi are systematic and sequential and can be adapted to students who bring varying degrees of prior experience.  The live model will be used in part or all of each course.  The teaching method will involve introductory lectures, extensive one-to-one teaching through each day, and concluding group critiques to underscore what has been learned.  Students will reflect upon, describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others’ work.

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PROGRAMS OF STUDY

PAINTING

Using oil or acrylic paint, students proceed through a series of sequential assignments designed to promote an understanding of value, temperature, color and other formal conventions employed by painters.  Students are encouraged to develop an intelligent, reliable approach to painting, a familiarity with basic materials and techniques, and an understanding of composition and color theory.  Students will work from direct observation using both still life set-ups and the live model.  More advanced students will be expected to achieve higher levels of realization in design, color manipulation, technique and composition. 
Instructor: Nancy Gladwell, Chairman of the Painting Department, LACFA.

OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING

Observational drawing is the transcription of optical information from a fixed position.  Students are presented with drawing as the visually accurate representation of three-dimensional forms in space on a two-dimensional surface.  Students are taught to see proportions and confirm their observations with measurements.  Still life objects as well as the live model are utilized as subject matter, progressing from simple to complex forms.  The objective of the course is to provide students with a systematic and effective approach to the construction of an accurate drawing through line and value.  More advanced students will be expected to achieve higher levels of realization. 
Instructor: Randy Melick, Chairman of the Drawing Department LACFA; holds the Deane G. Keller Endowed Chair of Classical Drawing and Figurative Art.

SCULPTURE

Sculpture explores the three-dimensional form and composition using the figure.  Projects include modeling a portrait from the live model, as well as the total human figure with reference to bone structure, muscles, proportion, and balance. Emphasis is on learning to translate into organized and credible forms the visual complexity of the observed figure. Demonstrations, individual instruction and group critiques are used to advance learning and to assess outcomes.  More advanced students will be expected to achieve higher levels of realization.
Instructor: Randy McIver, Adjunct Sculpture Instructor, LACFA.

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For Registration & Information:  Kathy Young-Murphy
Director Part-time and Continuing Studies
860.434.3571 x 120    kyoungmurphy@lymeacademy.edu