Drawing

“ The moment of a gesture…the breath of thoughts…
Features in blood… a human secret… art… paintbrushes of the soul ”
Marina Chapot

Drawing is learning how to look

This is one of the objectives of this art-studio… changing our perception of things, observing beyond surface… in depth…
In order to have creation, there must exist an impulse, an idea in the mind, in the soul and in the hands…
Learning basic concepts and techniques to produce a stronger and more creative work.
We’ll acquire a language to find then our own voice.
We’ll approach the fundamental elements of drawing and painting as well as their possible interaction.

Subjects and techniques

Live model: the naked body, portrait, statue, still life

Techniques of drawing: charcoal, pencil, sanguine, pastels

a) Structural analysis of the model
b) The sketch
c) Drawing of observation

Painting

“ it was at the end of Prehistory, while men didn’t yet know writing, that they began to use images to communicate with their fellow men ”

…looking for Beauty…

The idea of what is beautiful and of what is not, it can vary greatly according to different periods and civilizations…

Fundamental concepts in painting

• Colour
• Introduction to the chromatic circle
• Primary and complementary colours
• Study of light and shadow
• Warm and cold color
• Monochromatic study
• Volume and colour
• Transparency and density
• Glazing
• Textures and work with palette knife

The techniques

Oil, ink, watercolor, acrylic, mixed techniques and collage.

This course is given to a public of all levels of experience, for at least one year.
For people not living in Paris, short and intensive courses are proposed.

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Micro-sculpture and Jewellery: " The Lost Wax "

“ let’s take for example this piece of wax which has just been taken off the hive:
it hasn’t yet lost the sweetness of the honey which it contained,
it still holds something of the smell of flowers
from which it was collected ”
Descartes

This course will make you discover wax not only as a simple material of molding, but as an organic and sensual element, with all its poetic and powerful presence.
The first part of the course will be dedicated to wax as a transitory material, used in the creation of micro-sculptures and jewels.
It will allow you to learn the basic concepts of a cast including all stages up to polishing and finishing a piece of metal.
The last part of the course will be to draw first and to model in wax later.
We’ll try also to acquire a plastic and aesthetic vision. (Texture, light, pigmentation, etc.)

We’ll study the importance of this technique through the history of art
The lost wax technique was one of the most important processes used since long ago, considered as one of the oldest techniques.
The Egyptians already used it (4000 years before J. C.) in much the same way as we use it today.
Also the ancient Greeks, Renaissance Italians, Art Nouveau period, etc.
The transformation of wax, modeled or molded, under the effect of heat - fire –, becoming later a sacred piece of metal, is a spectacular phenomenon.
That’s why we can understand its relationship with the magic customs practiced by Pre-Columbian Indians, for example.

The cast:

It is a dream that a material as hard as metal will become, by fire, a liquid like water, and metal again by cooling.
The fire itself is another millenarian conquest which was considered as a gift of God : the fire of the sky…

Gold

Sculpture

In the conception of a piece of jewellery, it is important to understand that first of all this is an object in space and for this reason it may answer the same aesthetic questions as a sculpture

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SCULPTURE

“ Clay slide in the hands… we smell its perfume,
we can feel its silence and its shape…
it is the mother of special souls… ”
Marina Chapot

This course will try to make you discover clay as a basic and main subject in sculpture.
This material give us great freedom of expression and allows us to obtain a smooth and delicate surface,
as well as many different textures.
Indeed it let us keep shapes which we print with fingers or tools.
We will give special interest to modeling. We will study composition, lines of tension and rhythms in space.
Drawing will occupy an important place in our work, because it is the fundamental translator of an idea before transformed in a tri-dimensional space.
Finally, we will model in round-bump and in relief

Certain topics to study:

• Modelling a head
• Reading a new shape in space
• Geometrical shapes
• Division and gathering of fragments (assemblage)
• Smooth surface and textures
• Study of light and shadow
• Tension and direction in space
• Cavity and convexity

This course is opened to a public of all levels, for a duration of one year

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