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Composing from Observation and Memory with Iliya Mirochnik
📆 Wednesdays at 5:00 PM PT · Starts October 28

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Join NMA instructor Iliya Mirochnik for an eight-session Live Class on developing a composition through observation, memory, and imagination. You will simplify objects, people, clothing, and spaces into basic shapes, then redraw and combine them from memory. In later sessions, you will choose a theme, explore arrangements through small sketches, plan a focal point and value structure, and refine one black-and-white composition. The final session is a review of the finished work and the decisions behind it.

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Access with a Live Class Pass
$149 or 15 NMA Tokens for the full eight weeks.
Students on Library or Library+ plans, and artists new to NMA, can join with a Live Class Pass. Program students and members whose plans already include Live Classes do not need to purchase a separate pass.

Meet Your Instructor

Iliya Mirochnik, originally from Odesa, Ukraine, earned his MFA from Russia's esteemed Repin Academic Institute in 2013. His art masterfully blends Russian aesthetics with American nuances. Among numerous accolades, he secured the “First Place” in the American Portrait Society’s competition. With exhibitions spanning from New York to Austria and a significant design for Miami's Icon Bay Residences, Mirochnik has been a dedicated professor at the Ringling College of Art and Design since 2018.