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2020-2021 academic year (current)
We inform you that we will open the registration period for alumni / as, of those workshops in which they were enrolled in the course 2019-20. The registration period will be from Monday, May 25 to Monday, June 15, 2020, inclusive (from Monday, May 25 to Monday, June 15,...
Juan Genovés
The Valencian painter Juan Genovés has died during the early hours of Friday May 15 of natural death in a hospital in Madrid at the age of 89. The artist was during the Spanish transition, the author of "El abrazo" of 1976 painting belonging to the collection of the...
Figure in space
One of the main challenges of the more or less realistic representation is to maintain coherence between the elements of background and figure, to create a spatial coherence. In this exercise we will first propose a "set", wall, seat... in perspective where we will place the...
Photography exercise
When photography was born, officially back in 1839, it was characterized by its capacity to reproduce reality in an objective way, or at least that is what they pretended. With the passage of time we have been observing that this has little or nothing to do with reality and as a sample...
Enrollment 2020-2021
Dear students, We inform you that we will open the registration period for former students, of those workshops in which they were enrolled in the course 2019-20. The registration period will be from Monday, May 25 until Monday, June 15, 2019-20.
Jon Foreman (the art of the hypnotic earth)
Most of the time art has depicted nature on its canvases (still lifes, portraits, landscapes... ) But sometimes art becomes part of nature itself, the "canvas" is nature itself and interacts with it in a reflexive way. Jon Foreman...
Leather
The use of leather has been documented since the most remote prehistory and is present in cultures and populations of practically the entire planet. Its use is often endowed with connotations of nobility and prestige that make it ideal for the use of leather as a...
Little boxes with message
They are illustrations framed in boxes or cardboard frames. To do this, draw on white cardboard with a felt-tip pen, then cut them out and place them on the "stage". You can also use plasticine and other elements you can find (sticks, fabrics, objects). Also...
Drawing of the face -measurements- (2nd part)
PROFILE HEAD On this subject I have selected two links of interest: link 1 and link 2 The horizontal middle line of a square is the axis where the eyes and the upper part of the ear go. On the line that makes the lower quarter supports the nose and the ear....
Natural drawing
why is this classroom so special? In this school we have the great privilege of working with our live models in order to achieve a learning process of study and understanding of the human body in situ. Something that is not easily achieved and that gives great...
José Manuel Ballester
And where are the people? Missing human figures from classic paintings by artist José Manuel Ballester Despite being a couple of years old, José Manuel Ballester's works feel strangely familiar at this time of COVID-19. The Spanish artist recreates...
Drawing of the face -the profile- (1st part)
A BACK AND FORWARD LEARNING We are going to make a journey that begins in the way of seeing and drawing the human face, from the relationships between the parts, to the measures and the pieces that compose it as a whole whose representation does not differ in...