Figure Drawing: A Three-Week Workshop
With Stephen Teater
Date: Wednesdays, November 4, 11, 18
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Practice your figure-drawing skills from a live model in this three-session guided workshop focused on observation, structure, and expressive mark-making. Each class will introduce a different approach to drawing the human figure, with demonstrations and instruction from artist and educator Stephen Teater.
Stephen will lead participants through each drawing process, demonstrating materials, techniques, and procedures while discussing proportion, gesture, anatomy, value, composition, and the decisions that bring a figure drawing to life. Participants will have ample time to practice drawing while receiving individual guidance and feedback throughout the session.
Designed for beginners and practiced artists alike, this workshop is an opportunity to build and hone figure-drawing skills, develop a methodical approach to working from the model, and gain tools that can continue to inform and develop your own drawing practice.
No previous drawing experience is necessary.
All Materials included, though you are welcome to bring your own sketch book or favorite drawing supplies.
recommended for artists age 15+
*there is a minimum of 4 students to un this workshop
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Stephen Teater is a fine artist, illustrator, and educator based in Bend, Oregon. He teaches drawing and painting at Central Oregon Community College and has taught art classes through Bend Parks and Recreation District since 2021. He holds an MFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and a BFA from Linfield University.
His teaching combines academic foundations in drawing and painting with an emphasis on individual expression and visual communication. He believes strong technical skills give artists the freedom to make meaningful choices about how they interpret and communicate their experience.
As an artist, Teater works across painting, drawing, and illustration, drawing on observation, imagination, personal experience, and narrative. His landscape painting in particular is concerned not simply with depicting a place, but with conveying the atmosphere, emotion, and experience of being there — for Teater, a landscape painting transcends photography in its ability to communicate the story of a particular experience with and within the world.
Skill level: All levels welcome
