Description:

Figure classes at  The Village @ Gureje are aimed at students at all levels, from beginner to more advanced, with an emphasis on the expressive possibilities of figure drawing.  Working from a nude model in charcoal and other media, students gain a sense of the dynamics of the human form, along with some basic anatomy.  The three-hour sessions are broken into 20-minute sets, building from short gesture poses to longer poses.

Enid Braun is a Brooklyn-based painter who has been teaching  adult art classes in New York for more than 30 years.  She currently teaches figure and landscape classes for the Battery Park City Conservancy and pastel and drawing classes for the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, in addition to the figure classes at the Village@Gureje.

Classes are held Mondays between 1pm and 4pm [No Walk-ins]

She received her B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and her M.F.A. in painting from Pratt Institute.

To register: Send email with subject ‘Figure drawing’ to thevillage@gureje.com

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