Let’s Figure It Out: Painting the Nude Model
NC2XXX-01
Start Date
07/13
Time
Sun 7-9pm; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 9am-4pm; Sat 9am-noon–
Room
Kennedy TBA
End Date
07/19
Meeting Day
Sunday through Saturday
Credits
0 or 2
This observation based class involves various approaches to seeing and expressing. We will work thin, thick, quick, slow, voluminous, flat, tonal, narrative — until you’ve broken out of habits that may be holding you back. The focus will be on acrylics, but participants are welcome to use oil or gouache paints. Painting is from the nude model.
Notes: no chalk pastels
Schedule
- Check-in (on-campus students): Sunday 2–4pm
- Orientation and dinner (everyone): Sunday 5pm
- First class meeting: Sunday 7-9pm
- M-F Class scheduled 9–4pm (studios are open until 10pm Su and 6am-11pm M-F)
- Lunch 12:30–1:30pm, Dinner 5–7pm, Artists Lectures 7:30–8:30pm
- Open Studio and Celebration, Friday 6-9pm
- Final class Saturday, 9am–noon
- Checkout (on-campus students) prior to Saturday class
Housing: The early registration discounted rate ends February 28
Katy Schneider
Katy Schneider , raised in NYC, is a painter and art professor (32 years) at Smith College. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and of awards from the National Academy of Design and the Academy. Her work focuses on themes related to her upbringing: making the … Read more