Abstracting the Figure
Adult Class | Available
In this figurative class, students will be challenged to experiment with different approaches to abstraction. Inspired by the works of famous artists, students will try a variety of drawing and mark-making techniques in each class. Open to any medium, this class will meet the needs of creating bold figurative abstractions with the human form as a pretext.
What you will learn:
1. Figure proportions and knowledge of bodily landmarks.
2. Cubism, exaggeration, and simplification.
3. Clothing and fabric as an abstraction to the figure.
4. A wide range of drawing exercises and approaches to rendering the figure.
Rowan Briggs
K. Briggs is an award winning graphic novelist and arts educator. She began her comic-making career while pursuing her Masters at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art with a feminist re-imagining of the archetypal Hero Story, “Story(cycle)”. Their adaptation of “Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1” won the inaugural Elsinore Award for Graphic Shakespeare in 2016.
A fixture of the Scottish Independent Comic scene, Briggs founded and ran the Ex Libris Book Fair, Dundee’s only independent book fair. Her work has been exhibited in both art galleries and colleges in Sweden, Scotland, Japan, and the United States. An experienced art educator, Briggs lectured at their alma mater, Glasgow School of Art, The McManus Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and presented a paper she co-authored at the 2016 Graphic Medicine conference in Dundee. They are currently a teaching artist for Fleisher Art Memorial and Spiral Q in Philadelphia and ARTFusion 19464 in Pottstown.
https://k-briggs.com/