Announcing our new sister school
Denver School of Fine Art
We're expanding our school program of classical art education for today's artists and have found a wonderful new campus for our sister school, The Denver School of Fine Art. Located in Suite 315 of the Colfax Studios in the Lakewood Art District, we're getting everthing ready for classes to begin in January 2025.
Be part of our new school's becoming.
One thing we've learned from the eight years since we started the Boulder School of Fine Art is that community and quality make all the difference for a successful art school. At BSoFA and now at the Denver School of Fine Art, we are committed to creating a place where people of different life experiences, origins, political and religious beliefs and gender are welcome and treated with kindness and respect.
Raz Seri brings his curriculum of classical drawing and painting based on his education at Florence Academy to Lakewood in the hopes of expanding access to students who live in the greater Denver area who wish to improve their art practice. Our first class will be the French Academy Long Pose Figure class which he has taught at the Denver Art Students League, the atelier program he started in the Austin Atelier Dojo as well as the Boulder School of Fine Art.
Come join us in January and be part of a new art program in Colorado.
The French Academy Long Pose Figure
In the French Academy Long Pose Figure class, the same model poses over multiple weeks and students use the sight size and comparison measurement techniques over multiple sessions to create drawings and paintings that are accurate in overall shape and true to life in value and color of a nude model.
Sketches are first made to explore the gesture, shape and values of the subject, then a final finished drawing of charcoal on Roma paper is completed before painting begins. If time permits, a historically based limited palette of oil paints is used on linen canvas to create a la prima paintings that reflect the overall light and shadows of the model's form.
Class meets from 1-3:30 on Sundays. Part One meets from January 12-February 9 and Part Two meets from February 16-March 16.
In Part One, students will begin with a graphite sketch and continue with charcoal.
In Part Two, students will continue to refine their charcoal drawings with white chalk and may make a quick oil paint study with Raz Seri's permission.
SUNDAYS JAN 12 -Feb 16 from 1-3:30 in Lakewood studio
Starts Jan 12, 2025
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SUNDAYS Mar 2 - Apr 6 from 1-3:30 in Lakewood studio
Starts Mar 2, 2025
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SUNDAYS Apr 20-May 25 from 1-3:30 in Lakewood studio
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SUNDAYS June 8 - July 13 from 1-3:30 in Lakewood studio
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