Drawing the Human Figure in Gesture

with Christopher Ganz

When: Saturday, March 22 from 10am - 3pm

Where: Artlink, 300 E. Main Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Tickets: $90

This course will present the nude human figure as a dynamic vehicle for expression. A focus of the course will be capturing the movement and energy of each pose with an emphasis on capturing the entire length of figure on the page. Poses will be short in duration (1, 2, 3, and minutes to begin) with the longest being 15 minutes at the end of the workshop. Students will enhance their drawings skill by capturing the movement of the human figure using both line and tone. Approaches and concepts of gesture drawing will be introduced through presentations, demos, videos, and handouts. This will be both a challenging and fun workshop that will add power and expression to your figure drawings.

Media for the class will be a range of charcoal media (please see below).

Note: This workshop will include the observation of nude models. Anyone under 18 will need parental permission to register.

About the Instructor

Christopher Ganz is a professor of drawing and printmaking at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Ganz received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1995, and a Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2001. His work has been displayed across the nation and at international art fairs, and his work is represented by Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago.

Seminal influences on the work of Ganz include Dore’s engraved illustrations for The Divine Comedy and super-hero comics. Later on, Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Caravaggio would inspire his wok, as well as contemporary artists such as Mark Tansey and Lucian Freud. The novels of Melville, and Dostoyevsky, and contemporary authors such as Thomas Pynchon and Umberto Eco are also sources of inspiration.