- How to Participate
1. Sign up for class announcements (Enter your email here)
2. Sign in to your NMA account (Standard Site | V3 Beta Site)
3. Join the class discussion with fellow art students (Discord Server)
4. Participate LIVE each week on the Class Page (Standard Site | V3 Beta Site)
- Description
In this 12-week Live Class, Fundamentals of Drawing and Perspective, instructor Renae Wang will introduce you to observational drawing and perspective. You will focus on the basic technical skills and materials necessary to create convincing representations of still life’s and environments. Renae will demonstrate how to observe and describe a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional plane. You will create compositions that convey volume and space. Through this Live Class, Renae will teach you the importance of utilizing lines for measurement, creating a construction drawing, applying linear perspective, and understanding value systems.
- Meet Your Instructor
Renae Wang is a California-based artist working primarily in oil. Her subject matter focuses on nocturnal landscapes and “non-places” like gas stations, diners, and airports. Her work is characterized by vibrant colors under artificial lights and immersive compositions with first-person points-of-view. These nocturnal paintings explore the universal human condition of isolation, as well as its relationship with public spaces of transience. The viewer either becomes the one observing a solitary figure or the one being isolated.
She received her MFA from Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, and her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
- Format
This Live Class will feature live instruction, demonstrations, lectures, and critiques. While it is encouraged that you attend class live on the dates and times specified below, it is not required, and you can still watch a DVR of the class between weekly classes, and turn in your assignments for critique.
As a Live Class participant, you will attend class digitally, via a live stream which will appear on the NMA.art website. Each week, you will learn live with the instructor, who will assign you homework to complete before the next class. You will then submit that homework for an opportunity to have it critiqued live by the instructor. During class, you can talk with other students, ask the instructor questions, share your work, and receive feedback on your assignments.
You must have an active NMA.art subscription to attend this class. For more information, please contact us here.
- Certificate Information
Earn an official NMA Certificate of Completion for this Live Class: Click here for more information.
- Day and Time
Classes are live once per week, Tuesdays 3:30 pm-5:30 pm PT Starting January 18th 2022
- How to Attend
You will be provided with a link to the live class stream page shortly before class starts. Make sure you enroll for updates.