This Bey Atelier in Baroque Drawing is an artistic experience that will bring students back to the 17th century to learn - together with Baudilio Bey- the secrets of drawing in the greatest era of art. Step by step you will unveil the power of angle tecnique and its relationship with geometric shapes, from beginner to advanced.
A technique used by the baroque masters (Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and Claudio de Lorraine) to draw anything around to perfection. This experience will students not only to learn about this extraordinary drawing technique, but also how important is telling stories through hatching, shadows and strokes, to really turn a drawing tino a masterpiece. Additionally, this master course in drawing is a unique learning storytelled experience. The main goal is immersing students in a classical environment of 17th century so they can make a protagonists of the baroque itself.
In the first volume course - Bey Atelier in Baroque drawing: The Portrait - students will use Rembrandt's life and his legacy as a mean of inspiration to take his wisdom as a creative tool for portraiture. Students will learn the fundamentals of drawing to be able to draw anything from reality or memory. A volume focused on how to draw a face in a technical-artistic way with live models, graphite pencils and other drawing materials such as pastel chalks and dry pastels to capture the secrets behind human eyes.
Students will learn Angles Tecnique and its relationship with ranges and shapes.
Students will learn how to build objects from general shapes, having an efficient construction scheme.
Students will know the origin of the baroque movement.
Students will learn the life of Rembrandt and his legacy, the great master.
Students will know how to use face constructive schemes to stimulate your imagination thereby learning an appropriate technique for portraiture.
Together with Baudilio Bey, Students will create two final live portraits (one male and one female), using mainly graphite pencils, pastel chalks on a luxurious old paper.
Students will make a graphite pencil portrait from a static image.
Students will learn how to use paper color as a mean for the construction of a drawing.
"This course is designed with a special methodology developed at the Autonomous University of Barcelona as part of a final Master's thesis with honorable mention. It is an honor for me to be able to share this new experience of teaching an ancient art such as drawing."
Baudilio Bey Pérez
