Vosler Young Artists' Studio

September-May Annually  

Teens meet on Sundays from 10 AM to 2:00 PM with a half hour lunch built in.

Pre-Teens meet on Sundays from 2:15 to 4:15 PM with a snack break built in.   

A limited number of scholarships may be available to students in need of financial assistance.  Additionally we provide scholarships through school auction programs to attend our summer workshops annually.  

Online Cirriculum 

Curriculum

We teach students to see and understand, contour, shape, form, line, values, and edges followed by gesture and rhythms.  We teach observational drawing and the classical language that accompanies this discipline.

Teen Program

Consists of a specific course of study in the mornings with the live model followed by the practice of learned concepts.  The afternoon is dedicated to individual projects.   

Concepts and Master Copies

Bargue Plate Master Copy

Teens & Pre-teens 

All students work through the Barque Drawing Course.  This 19th Century course is integral to our overall program because it helps to propel our students' knowledge and skill. 

Leonardo Technical Manuals

Teens

When students complete a sufficient number of Bargue Plates they may track through our horse program if they have the desire to learn to draw the horse.  Students learn the anatomy from the bone structure to the muscles. This program is complemented with the addition of Anatomy of the Horse, by sculptor, Isidore Bonheur from the Caproni Collection.   

Cast Drawing

Teens

In our dedicated cast room students work through our casts from the Caproni Collection. 

Online students are provided an excellent image to work from and links to purchase casts for in the home use. 

Head and Shoulders 

Teens

Students learn anatomy of the skull, muscles and how to draw the head anywhere in space.  This includes the neck and top of the torso.  Skull, Asaro Planes of the head, Masks, and full sculpture in the round are all explored through drawings.  There are opportunities to model for each other and professional models are hired each month to practice both short and long poses.  

Figure Drawing

Teens

Students are taught the cannons of proportion throughout the human figure.  Artists study from the bones and landmark points first and layer muscles over the bones through plates from Artistic Anatomy by Paul Richer.  The instructor layers other lessons such as;  Angles, planes, morphology, rhythms and from instructor's experience.  Each lesson is followed by work with the live clothed model to learn to see and construct a human figure with accuracy.   

Study of fabric

Memory Drawing 

Fantasy Drawing

Pre-teens

Our pre-teens all do the basic program and Bargue plates.  We like to break up the rigorous classical study with fantasy drawings or play.  Students follow along as the instructor begins to draw using classical terms and descriptive language.  Students do not know what they are drawing but have fun guessing until the drawing is further along.  Once students complete the basic concepts we allow them to use their imaginations to embellish their drawings

Themes may include:

Shapes in Space with a single light source (sun)

Animals with cast shadows

Dinosaurs in landscape with distant volcano

Near and far 

Plein air Drawing and Painting

En Grise painting

Teens

Once students show a reasonable understanding of drawing we bridge them into En Grise painting. 

Spring Break & Summer Workshops 

June - August Annually

Our summer workshops as more focused study for those who may not be able to attend our Fall/Winter/Spring programs as well as for our regular students who want to continue development.   Many of our workshops begin with a Bargue drawing and all culminate with live models to practice learned concepts. 

Some of our previous workshop themes:

Hands and arms (Anatomy and muscles)

Feet and legs (Anatomy and muscles)

Anatomy of the Torso (Anatomy with bony landmarks plus basic muscles)

Head Building 1 (focused on the skull, large muscles and neck to clavicle)

Head Building 2 (focused on features of the face and expression)

Portfolio Development starts at enrollment.