I'll be busy this fall with teaching at two colleges: Seneca & Humber. At both I'll be giving classes in Life Drawing as well as mentoring an illustration course on Children's Books at Seneca. I'm excited about all of it but a bit apprehensive about how much time and effort they will take to execute [...]
Artists I wish I knew about when I was young. Annibale Carracci An Angel Playing Violin British MuseumMany times in teaching I’ve mentioned artists’ names only to see blank looks on my students’ faces. Rather than be frustrated by this lack of awareness, I remind myself that I too once was unaware of these artists who [...]
Master Class in Human AnatomyJuly 23 - 27Guelph Ontario Focus: This course is designed to give you an intensive overview of the muscles that move the figure, and thereby affect the form and give rise to expression. Focus will be given to reading the anatomical structure of the human body through landmarks and changes in form [...]
Rembrandt study of an elephant, British MuseumThis post comes from a reply I wrote this evening to a question from one of my students who asked in response to my previous comment about his work what is line quality. I thought I would post it since this is probably one of the most common questions, [...]
We didn't hit the magic number needed to run it at Seneca, but the course lives on out of my studio in Guelph.Course outline remains the same: same great model Ed, same visit to University of Guelph Anatomy Labs Tuesday and a beautiful place to run it in - Guelph!Contact me to enroll and for [...]
Ed's left knee remained for the most part in the same place; Ed pivoting from front to back over it.Played around today with overlying sequences, and studies of the back and arms in an extreme pull. Compressed Charcoal on Arches 88 top and middle. Bottom 7B Stabilo pencil on Arches 88
15 x 26" 8B on mat board
Here it is, finally posting. please pass it on to anyone in the arts or industry who you may feel would be interested in an intensive course in human anatomy.for more info, please feel free to email me at werner.zimmermann@senecac.on.ca, werner@wernerzimmermann.ca or through this blog. Master Class in Human AnatomyJuly4 - 8 2011Focus: This course [...]
One of today's studies: 7B pencil on 9.5 x 17 mat board