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2013 Spring Workshop and Marathon Offerings!

TO REGISTER, EMAIL ME.  I look forward to hearing from you--and working with you too. 

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MAY 25 - 26: Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Fee:  $110 both days; $60 one day / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun
MAY Art Marathon! (no instruction)

April showers...brings a MAY MARATHON! Sign up for two days of making art from live models with a group of other artists in a focused and enthusiastic atmosphere.  This art marathon offers four poses in all, each for three hours.  There will be 20 minutes of gestures before each long pose to energize and inspire your work.  You can paint, draw, sculpt, create collage—your choice!  I’ll be there drawing and timing the model.  No Instruction.
(photo: December 2012 Double Model Marathon).

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MAY 14-JUNE 18: all sessions at Woodland Pk. Zoo
Six Consecutive Tuesdays > Class fee:  $195 / TIME:  1-4 pm
6 Sessions SKETCHBOOK

Draw in sketchbooks from fascinating animals while exploring issues of color, texture, space, line, form, and composition.  It’s a joy to be outside of the traditional studio investigating drawing concepts inspired by “models” at the zoo.  A selection of drawing media will be used including color, both wet and dry media.  Each lesson begins with a lecture in the zoo café before heading out to draw from a variety of animals according to the topic discussed.  All classes are held at Woodland Park Zoo.  All levels are welcomed.  Zoo entrance fee is not included.
(photo: dwarf crocodile at WPZ by Barbara Fugate, conte on papers).

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JUNE 15-16:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Class Fee:  $235 /  Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun
Painting in the manner of  MODIGLIANI

Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) painted his most notable portraits and nudes in Paris, characterized by elongated bodies, textured surfaces, stylized shapes and pure color.  His influences ranged from the classical nude genre, primitive art, and modern artists of his time. This workshop explores the technique, composition and influences of Modigliani.  You will produce one painting made from the life model and several painting sketches.  Oil or Acrylic. Some painting experience recommended.
(photo: Modigliani, Portrait of Jeanne Sitting, 1918)

 

EMAIL ME TO REGISTER. I look forward to hearing and working with you.

 

MAY 25 - 26: Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle

Fee:  $110 both days; $60 one day / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun

 

MAY Art Marathon! (no instruction)

April showers...brings a MAY MARATHON! Sign up for two days of making art from live models with a group of other artists in a focused and enthusiastic atmosphere.  This art marathon offers four poses in all, each for three hours.  There will be 20 minutes of gestures before each long pose to energize and

inspire your work.  You can paint, draw, sculpt, create

Collage—your choice!  I’ll be there drawing and timing the model.  No Instruction.

 

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MAY 14-JUNE 18: all sessions at Woodland Pk. Zoo

Six Consecutive Tuesdays > Class fee:  $195 / TIME:  1-4 pm

 

6 Sessions SKETCHBOOK

 

Draw in sketchbooks from fascinating animals while exploring issues of color, texture, space, line, form, and composition.  It’s a joy to be outside of the traditional studio investigating drawing concepts inspired by “models” at the zoo.  A selection of

drawing media will be used including color, both wet and dry media.  Each lesson begins with a lecture in the zoo café

before heading out to draw from a variety of animals according to the topic discussed.  All classes are held at Woodland Park Zoo.  All levels are welcomed. 

Zoo entrance fee is not included.

 

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JUNE 15-16:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle

Class Fee:  $235 /  Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun

 

Painting in the manner of 

MODIGLIANI

Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) painted his most notable

portraits and nudes in Paris, characterized by elongated

bodies, textured surfaces, stylized shapes and pure color.  His influences ranged from the classical nude genre, primitive art, and modern artists of his time. This workshop explores the technique, composition and influences of Modigliani.  You will produce one painting made from the life model and several painting sketches.  Oil or Acrylic. Some painting experience recommended.

 

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EMAIL ME TO REGISTER

You may pay the full class fee or make a $50.00 class deposit (check or money order) made payable to "Barbara Fugate" and send to: 

Barbara Fugate, 4408 Delridge Way SW #408, Seattle WA  98106.  Visit www.FromLife.Blogs.com & www.BarbaraFugate.com for more information.   Email:  barbara.fugate@gmail.com

 

Seattle Weekend Workshops are held at the Youngstown Arts

Cultural Arts Center  (West Seattle)  in the historic Cooper School at 4408 Delridge Way SW, located just off of the West Seattle Bridge. There is a dedicated parking lot for the building’s Arts Center. 

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First zoo drawing day of the new year--year of the snake!

Today was, and still is, mighty sloppy outside!  Rain, dark skies, cold...perfect day to draw inside the reptile house at the zoo!  Here are a few I made...

I mostly worked from the male dwarf crocodile on multiple sheets as one drawing...the last sheet interrupted by the keeper telling me the zoo was closing, so I had to stop.  I did find out from her, though, that the male croc was hatched in 1968, making him 45 (life expectancy is 50-100 years).  The smaller crocodile there is a female of the same age.  She even vocalized a bit while I was drawing--always exciting.  the female is the smaller drawing, showing her eyes closed and "smiling"! 

Maria, the three banded armadillo, was running around as she always does, forever busy!  I managed a quick 10 second'ish gesture before she burrowed underneath a rock.  What a fascinating beauty she is.

And finally, or firstly actually, a head study of a gaboon viper that was eyeing me (head up in the air) the whole time.  I think he/she was hungry...anxious for their keeper to fling in a tasty furry dinner...

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF THE SNAKE!

(All drawings by Barbara Fugate, conte on paper)

 

 

 

FEB/MAR 2013 New Art Workshop Offerings

FEB 9 –10: Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Class Fee:  $235 /  Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun

Still Life Painting in the Manner of CEZANNE

What is Form?  How is it perceived in space?  This question of Form and how it is perceived was one Paul Cezanne asked over and over again as he painted many still life arrangements using ordinary objects and fruit on a table--such a worthy and complex question using simple everyday objects.  Cezanne’s developments of form, color, and space, led painting from Impressionism into Cubism and his works continue to inspire and challenge us today.  This weekend still life painting workshop investigates “in the manner of Cezanne” how form is perceived by way of color, textural brushwork, and line.  Several short painting studies will be made over the weekend while developing one canvas over both days.  Oil or Acrylic paints.  Some painting experience is recommended.

Painting Images:  Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1878 & Still Life with Cherub, 1895
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MAR 16-17:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Class Fee:  $235 /  Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun

DRAW LOOSELY with ACCURACY: Proportion & Dynamic Lines

Have you found your gesture drawings to be exciting, loose, and alive while your longer figure studies turn rigid and deliberate?  This weekend workshop is designed to bring your expressive mark-making into long studied figure drawings that also have accurate proportions and structure.  You will use charcoal, colored ink wash and some soft pastel in extended poses and some gestures on 24”x 36” paper.  Issues covered include sight measuring (proportion), line, contour, light and shadow, and depth of space.  All levels welcomed.  Previous drawing experience is recommended.
(Drawing image: Barbara Fugate, 2012, 36"x24" mixed media on paper)

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EMAIL ME TO REGISTER

see my drawings at SISKO GALLERY, opening Nov 15

Drawings: Investigations and Explorations

SISKO GALLERY

Opening reception Thursday, November 15th, 2012:  5pm to 8:00pm

November 15th, 2012 to December 30th, 2012.

Exhibiting Artists:  Juan Alonso, Michael Bergt, Margaret Davidson, Everett DuPen, Barbara Fugate, Kyle Huntress, Roella McCoy, Tom Sherwood and more...

Sisko Gallery, www.siskogallery.com
3126 Elliott Ave, Seattle, WA  98121,  206-283-2998

Drawing is foundational to most all artistic expression, but it is also a final expression in-it-self. The subject of drawing is vast, but I am intrigued with the artist using drawing is a tool of investigation and expression where the artist uses drawing as an organ of discovery both of the physical world and the world of ideas.

 

(Drawing: Barbara Fugate, Male Gesture, 2012)

NEXT ART WORKSHOPS I am teaching

NOV. 10-11:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Class Fee:  $235 / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun
GESTURE DRAWING: Be Bold, Brave & Quick 
 
Gesture drawing is naturally raw, direct, bold, and exciting!  It is a way of participating fully in the experience—the act—of drawing while you capture a sense of “how the model is,” not what they look like.   You are guided through a plethora of gesture drawings in charcoal and color, aiming to make you a more compassionate observer and enthusiastic participant in your drawings.  The weekend begins in charcoal on Saturday with colored pastel and ink washes added on Sunday.  All levels are welcomed. Some previous experience in figure drawing is recommended but not required.  Drawings are made on 24”x36” paper. 
(Gesture Drawing by Barbara Fugate)
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— NEW! —
DEC. 1-2:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Two day fee:  $150; One day fee: $75 / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun
DOUBLE MODEL Art Marathon Weekend!  -No Instruction-
 
This is a special opportunity to work from TWO MODELS posing together for an entire weekend! There’s no instruction—I will be there drawing/painting and timing the models.  Pose lengths vary from short gesture poses up to extended ones (1-2 hrs) .  Both models are fantastic gesture models, collaborators and experienced dancers, making their poses exceedingly inspired and inspiring!  You choose your media.  The models will be surrounded by a colorful  tableau, and a table of snacks will be available to keep all happily fueled for a dynamic weekend of double model compositions.

(Drawing by Barbara Fugate)

 

EMAIL ME To Register

Make Art this weekend in Seattle!

This coming weekend, Sept 29 & 30, I am hosting an ART MARATHON--and there's room to register!

Here are the details.  It's a great value--and loads of fun.  EMAIL me to register.

SEPT. 29 & 30:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Two day fee:  $110; One day fee: $65 / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun

ART MARATHON—Draw/Paint/Sculpt—It’s your choice!  THIS WEEKEND
(No Instruction)        ~Register today~

Get back into the swing of the studio making art all weekend long from a figure model.  There is no instruction.  Work at your own pace with your choice of media. 

Figure poses will progress from gesture poses up to a three hour pose each day.  The long pose on Saturday afternoon will be repeated on Sunday allowing those who wish to further develop a longer study to do so.  Colorful backdrops will inspire and ignite your figure creations!  Fugate will be present timing the model poses as well as providing some snacks to keep everyone fueled and energized to make your best efforts ever.  All levels are welcomed. 

Mixed Media Drawing by Barbara Fugate

SEPT. 29 & 30:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle

Two day fee:  $110; One day fee: $65 / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun

 

ART MARATHON—Draw/Paint/Sculpt—It’s your choice!  THIS WEEKEND

(No Instruction)        ~Register today~

 

Get back into the swing of the studio making art all weekend long from a figure model.  There is no instruction.  Work at your own pace with your choice of media.  Figure poses will progress from

gesture poses up to a three hour pose each day.  The long pose on Saturday afternoon will be r

epeated on Sunday allowing those who wish to further develop a longer study to do so.  Colorful

backdrops will inspire and ignite your figure creations!  Fugate will be present timing the model poses as well as providing some snacks to keep everyone fueled and energized to make your best efforts ever.  All levels are welcomed. 

 

FALL WORKSHOPS and SKETCHBOOK --sign up today!

Barbara Fugate Gesture Drawing, 2012

EMAIL ME TO REGISTER

SEPT. 29 & 30:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Two day fee:  $110; One day fee: $65 / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun
ART MARATHON—Draw/Paint/Sculpt—It’s your choice! (no instruction)

Get back into the swing of the studio making art all weekend long from a figure model.  There is no instruction.  Work at your own pace with your choice of media.  Figure poses will progress from gesture poses up to a three hour pose each day.  The long pose on Saturday afternoon will be repeated on Sunday allowing those who wish to further develop a longer study to do so.  Colorful backdrops will inspire and ignite your figure creations!  Fugate will be present timing the model poses as well as providing some snacks to keep everyone fueled and energized to make your best efforts ever.  All levels are welcomed. 
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SEPT. 25–OCT 30:  Woodland Pk. Zoo & Volunteer Pk. Conservatory
Class fee: $195:  1-4 PM, Six Consecutive Tuesday Afternoons
SKETCHBOOK DRAWING with Mixed Media

Draw in sketchbooks from ever fascinating animals and plants exploring issues including color, texture, space, line, form, and composition.  It’s a joy to be outside of the traditional studio setting, investigating drawing concepts inspired by our models at the zoo and conservatory.  A variety of drawing media will be used beginning with conte crayons and then adding color media including colored pencils, water-soluble crayons, and watercolors.  Classes are held at Woodland Park Zoo and Volunteer Park’s Conservatory.  All levels are welcomed.  Zoo entrance fee not included.
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OCT. 20-21:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Class Fee:  $235 /  Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun
In the manner of VAN GOGH:  Still Life & Self-Portrait Painting 

Practice the genres of Still Life and Self Portrait painting in the manner of Van Gogh.  Van Gogh’s innovations in painting using expressive color, shallow space, and texture greatly influenced painters of his time and continues today.  In this weekend workshop you will investigate these elements of painting and compositional choices painting from a still life on Saturday and Self Portrait painting (using a mirror) on Sunday.  Emotive color, engagement of the psyche, and a celebration of nature are also aspects of Van Gogh’s art that will be discussed and sought after through the weekend of painting.  Some painting experience recommended.  Oil or Acrylic.
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NOV. 10-11:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
Class Fee:  $235 / Time: 10am - 5 pm Sat/Sun
GESTURE DRAWING: Be Bold, Brave & Quick 

Gesture drawing is naturally raw, direct, bold, and exciting!  It is a way of participating fully in the experience—the act—of drawing while you capture a sense of “how the model is,” not what they look like. 
You are guided through a plethora of gesture drawings in charcoal and color, aiming to make you a more compassionate observer and enthusiastic participant in your drawings.  The weekend begins in charcoal on Saturday with colored pastel and ink washes added on Sunday. All levels are welcomed. Some previous experience in figure drawing is recommended but not required.  Drawings are made on 24”x36” paper. 
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DEC. 1-2:  Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, West Seattle
(TBA)  SAVE THE DATE!
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EMAIL ME TO REGISTER

Sale through AUGUST on MY DRAWING BOOK

There is a BOOK SALE now through the month of August at www.lulu.com where you can purchase my new book of RECENT WORK ON PAPER. 

You can buy your own copy online and for 20% using the coupon code:  AUGBOOKS12 

 

 

 

Here are some excellent snaps taken by my friend and photographer, Lincoln Potter, during my studio show in June.  You can make out some of the pieces I had on display and lots of the great folks who come to see my recent and past work.  Thanks so much, Lincoln!  And thanks to all of you who attended! (click on images for larger versions)

VISIT MY STUDIO this SATURDAY 3 - 9 pm

THIS SATURDAY, June 9th, from 3-9 pm is Cooper Artists Lofts' OPEN HOUSE at YOUNGSTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER in West Seattle. 

Come view new and past works--and visit with me in my studio--STUDIO #408.

Go to www.cooperjournal.com for more information, schedule of performances, and a map.

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In addition to viewing my work, I will have available for purchase a limited number of copies of a BOOK OF MY RECENT DRAWINGS from this year!

It includes 45 pages of gesture drawings, pastels, and mixed media figure drawings.

You can view a few pages and purchase it at www.lulu.com

Use the LULU coupon code:  JUNEBOOKS12 and recieve a discount through June (that's $4.80 cents off!).  (Be sure to type the letters in caps.)

 

STUDIO SHOW June 9th!

Come visit me in my studio #408 and view current works, JUNE 9th, Saturday from 3 PM - 9 PM.

Located at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, 4408 Delridge Way SW, Seattle

(click on images for larger viewing)

Hope to see you then!