Teaching "How to Draw Real Live People" again this summer

I've been asked to teach my life drawing and portraiture class again through the La Grange Art League -- it's now got three weeks left to this term, and the new term of it starts June 21 and will run for six weeks on Wednesday afternoons. The class designation is now "Grades 3 and up" to fully accommodate the expressed adult interest as well, and I'll be setting up a new pick-your-own-assignment range of homework activities, as well as doing more posing and interactive/partner work in-class.

Here's the URL for the class schedule, which will be updated soon and has all general info links as well:

http://www.lagrangeartleague.org/classes.html

--and the class description is as follows:


HOW TO DRAW REAL LIVE PEOPLE

Grades 3 and up
Instructor: K. Aurencz Zethmayr
Dates: June 21 through July 26
Time: Wednesday afternoons (will add exact time; class is 2 hrs long)

Learn how to draw friends, family and/or anyone you like, using
foundational knowledge you wouldn't get otherwise until high school.
We'll cover basic anatomy & proportions, take turns doing poses for
the rest of the class (volunteer basis) and explore how to draw
recognizable people both from live sittings and from photographs.


Instructor bio:

K. AURENCZ (AUREY) ZETHMAYR is a freelance artist/designer with
strong interest in character portrayal and the dramatic nature of
scenes (with or without people in them). Holds a BA Degree from
Columbia College Chicago, with especial emphasis on theatrical
design. Has been doing portraiture, illustration and graphic design
for many years, ever since first acquiring the reputation of being "a
really good drawer."

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If you're interested and in the Chicago area, check it out (class conversation roams all over the place, so it's a rather interdisciplinary experience, not just limited to typical art classroom topics).

I'm also planning to do a series of Wednesday morning sessions (from about 10am-noonish) of general nature/"outside" drawing in the backyard garden at my home, though that's apart from the Art League and will be arranged/advertised on my own account.....further details as firmer planning warrants.

It's kinda my mother's idea, but it's not a bad one, and if there's enough interest but not the weekday time I can always do it for Saturdays to accommodate (except of course for the weekends that I go to Indy...Indiana...when my baby smiles at me I go to--okay, okay, I'm stopping, I'm stopping...well, except for that bit about being a tiger...>:)...)


Okay. That's not all of what I'm doing IRL (I'm also teaching piano and music theory and may have another formal voice student soon), but it's something. Something that isn't actually directly connected with saving the world, but then again it might be. Go figure.

Hyperlucidity and the eternal pathology of expectation....

||__ Re: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hyperlucidity __||
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Namely, why do people join a group that's for news and open discussion and then never say a bloody thing....?--and why do all the people I know who do have cogent opinions and post things of social/political import on the blogs never post these things into the group, where they'd actually be appreciated by a larger audience?

I...geez, I'm not even badgering there, and I don't think I ever badger or demand enough, for all that these lurkers flout the express intent of the place -- it ain't just for me to spoonfeed news items, I ain't the Holy Bible when it comes to offering commentary, and I damn well wish other people would speak up, as I have given them every encouragement and amenity to do so right from the start.

Then there's the whole "intimidation" thing that comes up....meaning, oh, people are too self-conscious to post because I'm just so great with words and they don't have anything to add or say of their owm....umm, yeah. I'm not perfect, I'm not infallible, I'm not a dogmatist and I certainly don't shoot people down constantly just to show how smart I am. I'm not perfect....so why do people avoid interacting with me and the things I bring up as if I were intellectually radioactive?

Hmm....well, maybe I had better quit while I'm ahead, so far as protesting my non-attitude of superiority. But I do have a sense of humour, and no one has bloody well dared to respond to that either...I mean, I thought that riffing off of The Day After Tomorrow was found to get some reaction...

Just a request, though, to those of my LJ flist who have membership in that group (or others that I run):

If you have something to share, go on and share it, fergadsakes -- don't think that I'll get on your case for taking initiative or bringing up something of import. I want a community of thought, not a one-way stream with momentary commentary-volleys. I can't be everywhere in the world, and I'm not trying to, and that's where the reality of things comes into play, that we each have our own areas and interests and watchfulnesses and niches from which to speak. Trying to keep it all intelligent and rationally balanced is a big thing of mine, okay -- that's why I started the group -- but I sure as hell ain't a tyrant-moderator who can't tolerate any differences of opinion or a bright idea that wasn't mine.

Just to clarify things, ya know.....

*pounce* NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!

Here's a bit of passing on from the lovely Litharriel. Name, quest, and favourite colour, please. >:)

*pounce*

You have now been pounced. And here is what you must do...

First thou shalt take out the Holy Friendlist. Then shalt thou tag three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt tag, and the number of the tagging shall be three. Four shalt thou not tag, nor either tag thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number be reached, then, pouncest thou the people on thy friendlist, and they, being buddies in my sight, shalt be cuddled.

And thus do I taggeth:

Nightwolf747, MiriamAlessa, and Lurkitty

(Any/all accents heard are entirely intentional. :P)