JULY 15-18
MONDAY – THURSDAY, 1:30-5:00 PM
Fee: $340, includes July 16 at the Metropolitan Museum in the Print Study Room.
Separate Option: $85 for July 16 only: MMA Drawing/Print Study Room* and Galleries
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students.
Please request supply list
We will create self-portraits monochromatically in line and tone, with a variety of materials — graphite, charcoal, reed, glass or metal pen nibs and ink wash or silverpoint. Then we will work in limited and full color using sanguine conte, charcoal on toned paper, pastel or watercolor. Students can create conceptual or imaginative self-portraits. This workshop will also focus on the development of a cohesive presentation of artwork. Working from observation, students will be guided to complete self-portraits suitable for their portfolios for high school, college and graduate school admission. Portfolio reviews are included, if desired.
On Tuesday July 16, we will draw from self-portraits by Cezanne, Degas, Le Gros, Kollwitz, Rembrandt and others in the Drawing/Print Study Room. We may also visit the Met galleries; there we can use a wide array of dry mediums.
* MMA Drawing/Print Study Room students must be aged 18 and older; graphite on paper only in these rooms. Younger students will draw in the galleries with the Instructor.
“One of my principal goals as an artist is to capture and communicate intuitive responses to a subject, carefully and sensitively, whether I am working from a model, landscape, or still life. Successful work conveys not only the reality that the artist confronts but the very personal reaction that is inspired by that reality.”
Wendy Shalen has taught figure and landscape drawing and painting to adults and teens for more than thirty years. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, where she majored in art history. She also studied at The Art Students League in the late 1970s with Daniel Greene, Harvey Dinnerstein, and Robert Beverly Hale, and privately with Burton Silverman.
She has exhibited at Allan Stone Gallery (New York City); Abbot & Holder (London); Carol Craven Gallery and Gardner Colby Gallery (Martha’s Vineyard); the Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY); the Housatonic Museum (Bridgeport, CT); and the Belskie Museum (Closter, NJ). Ms. Shalen has taught a Portfolio Development Drawing class for high school students, as well as landscape painting workshops for adults, at the Silvermine Guild School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut, and at the Vytlacil Campus of The Art Students League. She is currently a member of The Prince Street Gallery in Manhattan. Her studio is located in Waccabuc, New York.
Recent portfolio students of Wendy Shalen have been admitted to The Art Institute of Chicago, Bard, Cooper Union, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, FIT, Georgetown, Maine College of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, The Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, New Hampshire Institute of Art, New Jersey College, Parsons, Pratt, RISD, Savannah College of Art, School of Visual Arts, Skidmore, Syracuse, Michigan, Northeastern University, Otis College of Art and Design, Pomona, RPI, Sarah Lawrence, Tulane, University of the Arts (PA), University of Rhode Island, Washington Univ. of St. Louis, and USC.
To learn more about Ms. Shalen, please visit www.wendyshalen.com.
