atelier experience

Enjoy a taste of our ATELIER program with course director Will Nathans in the stunning settings of our Russborough studio.

WEEK 1: Bargue Drawing & Cast Painting
Monday 15th - Friday 19th July
10am - 4pm
€550

If you would like to complete the 2 full Atelier Taster weeks you can book HERE for a discounted price of €1,100

This workshop is taking place in our studio in the west wing courtyard of Russborough house, blessington

This ATELIER EXPERIENCE will give you a wonderful taste of our intensive 160 hours accredited ATELIER course that runs during the academic year.

This academic art training is based on 19th century French Ateliers that many of the great masters of the past 200 years were trained and where they gained their experience in the craft of drawing and painting. This experience with us will give you an excellent insight into those 4 key projects - Bargue drawing, cast painting, drawing from life & figure painting.

Academy trained Painter and Artist WILL NATHANS will be guiding students through this Atelier Experience.

COURSE STRUCTURE:

WEEK 1: Monday 15th - Friday 19th July

Mornings: Bargue Drawing & Copying - The Bargue Drawing method focuses on sight-size copying of the Old Masters Plates as perfectly as possible. This precise study teaches artists to see distances, lengths and angles, as well as seeing and depicting both light and shade using a two-dimensional reference. (15 hours in total during Atelier Experience)

Afternoons: Cast Painting - Cast painting teaches you to see ‘form’ in three dimensions and transfer it with meticulous detail with oil to canvas replicating the cast. This practise teaches the mastery of values. (10 hours in total during Atelier Experience)

WEEK 2: Monday 22nd - Friday 26th July

Drawing & Painting from Life: Working with the nude figure, students will complete a sight-size life drawing & painting. This module will give the participant an opportunity to understand of the human form and the flesh palette in oils. (25 hours in total during Atelier Experience)

material list

• Vine Charcoal

• Sandpaper

• Putty Eraser

• Graphite Pencils (2B)

• Sharpener / Paring Blade

• A3 Sketch Pad

• Oil paints (Student grade necessary - eg. Brands Winton or Georgian Rowney)
  Titanium White
  Ivory Black
  Cadmium Road
  Yellow Ochre

• Set of bristle brushes

• Liquin (sans odor)

• Palette (paper or wooden)

• Canvas or Board (16 x 20” at least)

• Other; Rags, Masking tape & Knitting needle or BBQ skewer

Course director - will nathans

Will Nathans has established his artistic career through the genres of portraiture and landscape painting within the tradition of representational oil painting. His main aspiration is to produce beautiful works of art and to establish himself as a premier portrait painter. Will believes it is his lifelong goal and responsibility to pass on the knowledge that he has gained within this great tradition to other generations as well as instill a solid work ethic and true devotion to the craft of painting and drawing.

He was educated at the Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, Ontario, and then at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY .

Will has been a guest art instructor at a number of Irish and US schools. His work comprises many private collections in the USA and Ireland. He has illustrated for 20th Century Fox, ABC Family and his Freelance Portrait and Landscape Portfolio is immense.

To find out more about Will please visit his website willnathanspaintings.com