Welcome!

Alpine Fine Art Center Open Figure Sessions...

We are suspending figure drawing until we can come up with a concept which will
bring in enough artists on a regular basis to pay for the model and the utilities.

If you have any ideas, please share them, whether it's a new time, a class or instruction format,
or anything else innovative you can think of which will make a model relevant to your work.

Everyone who attended the sessions last fall and this winter will likely agree that one thing we
don't need to improve is the models, that's for sure. We found very interesting and wonderful
models every week, so that's not a problem!

For the sake of stability and predictability, the concept needs to be one which participants would be
willing to contribute to on a month-by-month basis.

The following are some really interesting (and safe) websites on figure work.
Please email if you know of other sites that could be added to this list.
(Select your browser's back button to return to the previous page.)

Here are some valuable art pages on the subject of figure work . . . choose, then select Take Me There! A Resource Listing Hundreds of Books on Figure Drawing and Painting Here's an interview with the great Robert Beverly Hale Robert Beverly Hale Lecture on Tape! The wisdom of the ages: Burt Silverman talks about and demonstrates drawing The Timeline of Art History - from the Met in New York City The Big One: 2,600 AMERICAN Artists (deceased) - TFAO's Resource Library HUGE collection of art images - from ARC, defenders of representational art The Ultimate Vermeer Research Page The Ultimate Rembrandt Research Page The Ultimate Vincent Van Gogh Research Page All 2,194 of Vincent's works & 874 letters gathered by the incomparable David Brooks A Good Monet Research Page