Learn to draw at your own pace in a dreamy curiosity shop hidden in the third district of Vienna! We set up with our pencils and paints among the marionettes and African masks and globes and unicorns every Wednesday. We like to get our hands dirty, to set ourselves difficult puzzles, to solve them ourselves with some thoughtful and attentive guidance. Our class is more like a traditional atelier workshop than a course, and each person receives individual attention from the teacher, a practising artist, who adapts the exercises according to your abilities and interests.
We work from the model and from still lives; we talk about form and volume, tone, accuracy, proportion, anatomy, design and gesture. We deepen our understanding of what we see and how we can put it down on paper by coming at the problems from countless different directions. There is no fixed way to work, and no strict style expected of you. We try to lay a firm foundation of skills and encourage you to develop them in sympathy with your own motivations as an artist.
Samantha Groenestyn, BA (Hons I), trained in Brisbane and Sydney in Australia, under the guidance of respected Australian artists Francis Giacco, David Paulson, David Briggs, Ryan Daffurn and Scott Breton. She learned in an immersive studio environment that encouraged long-term projects, discipline and thinking for oneself. Her training consisted in twelve-hour days in the studio, additional life drawing and intensive workshops on colour. She gained insights from these knowledgeable and passionate artists, but also from hours of wrestling with the problems of light and form and anatomy herself, and it is out of this experience that she teaches. She aims for clarity of ideas and depth of understanding.
The class is taught in English, wir können aber auch auf deutsch reden.
