Week One: Drawing Efficiently
Week Two: Massing Values
Week Three: Modeling Form
Week Four Hierarchy
Week Five: High Resolve
Week Six: Drawing with Paint
Week Seven: Massing Values/Color Analysis
Week Eight: Modeling Form/Illumination Design
Week Nine: Hierarchy
Week Ten: High Resolve

Joseph Todorovitch is a contemporary painter immersed in figurative subject matter exploring painting through the lens of a naturalist perspective. A product of Los Angeles Ateliers and research abroad, he has become nationally recognized as a fine artist exhibiting across the country and accumulating accolades including the Draper Grand Prize at the Portrait Society of America’s annual competition. His work is internationally collected and has been exhibited in various museums in the U.S. as well as the Beijing World Art Museum in China, an historic exhibition of American art, the first of it’s kind in China. Todorovitch has taught drawing and painting for over a decade in notable institutions such as California Art Institute, Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Laguna College of Art and Design, Scottsdale Artist’s School, Dreamworks Studios, among others and now including Art Mentors at New Masters Academy. He continues to teach and exhibit with vitality… “Joseph Todorovitch is one of the bright figures of the new representational expression in contemporary Art. Exploring the new expressive possibilities in presenting the human figure and expanding its visual language is part of a wider movement of taking the tradition­based approach to the next step. The technically fluid, expressive tools merging tonality, color and shape ­ reflecting the perceptional and cognitive developments of our generation ­ is an inherently contemporary expression of contemporary visual cognition.” ­ Classical Underground.

Drawing: (First Half of Term)
Big drawing board
Starthmore pad of drawing paper 18×24
Generals hb &2b &6b charcoal pencils
Prisma Color “medium” eraser (in pencil form)
Box of Willow Charcoal Windsor Newton medium sticks
Q-tips
Sharp razor blade and a small sheet of sand paper
Stick of compresses charcoal (Generals 6b)
Blending stumps (Tortillions)
Tissue Paper
Mongoose hair paintbrush size 10

Painting: (Second Half of Term)
Oil Colors: Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red, Venetian Red, Alizarin Crimson, Transparent Oxide Red (or Burnt Sienna), Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Viridian
Walnut oil painting medium or a refined linseed oil
Odorless mineral spirits (Gamsol brand, please)
Sealed containers for mediums and solvents
A roll of paper towels (Viva brand)
Brushes: A variety of sizes are recommended, ranging from 1 to 12, Bristle brushes and sables (Rosemary & Co series 279 are recommended)
Palette knives of various sizes
A palette (preferably glass with neutral grey beneath it)
Glass scraper
Canvas: An oil primed linen is recommended, around 12×16 in size
Easel: Mobile French easel (Being mobile and completely ready to paint is challenging but a very important part of the organizing process of painting. If your materials aren’t completely ready and conveniently available, the difficult task of making a good painting is further complicated)

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