Get inspiration from drawing a life model and then sculpture with clay the pose and emotion that come though.
Instructor: De Li
On Wednesday evening from November 7 to December 12 from 7 to 10 pm
Cost: $270 (including the model fees +10kg of clay) + tax and firing
In the first two sessions of the life drawing course students will develop an understanding of the various approaches to drawing the figure from life. They will discover how this knowledge may be applied to creating a three-dimensional figure in clay. They will also understand how the information attained would influence their future work.
Using a variety of materials such as graphite pencils, charcoal, and 
ink. Students will investigate life drawing working with the model, creating small, medium, and large format imagery.
During the final four sessions students will work towards creating two three-dimensional figures in clay using the drawings they have made throughout the classes as the source of information and inspiration.
Result expected:
-Develop technical and conceptual vocabulary of the drawing medium
-Analyze form and use analytical techniques such as gesture, sketch, render, and to compose and produce resolved drawings.
-Make two figure sculptures in clay
-Employ both observational and systematic approaches to making drawing and handing clay
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Instructor: De Li
Her website: http://www.behance.net/dedeli
EDUCATION: 2008 Master of Ceramic Art University of Wolverhampton, UK 1988 Bachelor of Ceramic Art and Industrial Design Tsinghua University, China
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
-Teach Traditional Chinese Painting, Ceramic Art, and Drawing at Luc Sculpture School and Studios
-Teach at Chinese Youth Centre, Toronto (students between 4 to15 years old)
-2010 teacher assistant for volunteering at William Burgess School, East York Toronto
-2008-2009 Volunteer at Wuzhou Special School for the Learning Disable, Wuzhou, China
-2006-2009 taught Art History, Painting, Interior Design, Direct and Indirect methods of Mosaic at the University of Wuzhou, China
-1995-1998 taught at the Shenzhen Yuanping Special Education School for the Autistic and Learning Disable, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
-1988-1995 taught Traditional Chinese Painting, Watercolor, Drawing, and Ceramic Art at the University of Hunan, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Toronto, UK, Banff BC, Shenzhen, Guangdong, and Wuzhou, Guangxi in China