New Workshop: Drawing & Painting Architecture

Ceiling as the Sky by Nick Raynolds.
Ceiling as the Sky by Nicholas Raynolds

Drawing And Painting Architecture In The Landscape
July 26–28, 2013
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A new weekend workshop at The Art League this summer will be bringing the outside in, as students apply landscape techniques and other lessons to compositions of man-made buildings and machines.

Guest instructor Nicholas Raynolds, whose work has been exhibited internationally and who has taught at schools including The Art Students League of New York, will be teaching the workshop. He said the idea for the class comes from architecture as a contrast to the organic lines of pure landscape. The hard edges of machinery and buildings create a different set of opportunities — for example, the use of linear perspective, which isn’t as overt in a traditional landscape. Raynolds said he hopes to find good locations, either interior or exterior, for students to paint or draw. Continue reading New Workshop: Drawing & Painting Architecture