EXPRESSIVE LIFE DRAWING AND PAINTING
This is not your average life drawing class; Peter does not teach anatomy, correction. For three days, we work inspired by the fabulous Georgina, drawing, painting, using multi media materials, expanding our imagination with the model as inspiration. The last two days spent creating more paintings taking them further and further, using our drawings as inspiration.
with PETER KOLISNYK and model: GEORGINA BRANCH
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PETER KOLISNYK

Peter has been teaching his special version of life drawing for years, courses in Toronto that are almost impossible to get into. His attention is to the feeling and character of the model, a sensuous curve in the arm, the arrogant tilt of the head - rather than the correct technical atonomical depiction of the body. We use everything in this workshop. It is more about making marks, your marks, your colours, textures, paints, charcoal, inspired by the model, not depicting her as she realistically is. Working on canvass, huge paper, with gestural poses, one minute, to five or ten minute,with Georgina at the helm...using charcoal, paint, conte, smudging, splattering, eraser on huge paper, canvas, mylar, board, whatever. Peter challenges and encourages you to go further than you could imagine, always in keeping with your own special interpretation and inspiration.
Intermediate to advanced

PETER KOLISNYK - formerly a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Royal Canadian Academy, and directer of the art and design departments of Glendon College,York University. Peter has taught and exhibited extensively throughout Canada and the U.S., including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada Council Art Bank and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery.