freehand drawing & graffiti
Every second Thursday, 7 - 8.30 pm
We shall deal with freehand drawing of a model, carrying out a large number of exercises as we study the human body. With freehand drawing the students convey the feeling of the subjects as they assess shapes and tones.
We will learn to design various fonts, in 3D and with shading. We will get to know artists from the distant past to this day; artists who left messages and scripts (graffiti, street art) in the streets and buildings of New York, Berlin, London, Northern Ireland, Athens, Brazil, Israel, etc.
Our aim is to liberate and practice subtle movements, often with the aid of music. With music we will get to rhythmically discover inner images, symbols messages and thought of the kind we often encounter in daily life, as with graffiti.
Class dates:
October: 12 and 26
November: 9 and 23
December: 7 and 21
January: 11 and 25
February: 8 and 22
March: 7 and 21
April: 4 and 18
May: 17 and 31
Emilia Tsekoura
Born in Athens, Emilia Tsekoura studied at the Art Communication & Learning team in Athens (1978-80), at the Boston Museum’s School of Fine Arts (1980-84) and at the same time at Tufts University, graduating with a Bachelor in Arts & Sciences.
Between 1988 and 2013, Emilia taught at the Athens College using differentiation teaching, art therapy and the method of Harvard University’s Project Zero (TFU, Visual Thinking). To this day she has had several solo shows in Greece and the US and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
She is motivated by concepts originating from her own nature and expressed in autobiographical and expressionist ways: woman, Goddess/Idol, birth, genesis, the ovoid, rebirth. The philosophy of constant change in life, nature and art is always the key principle behind her every work.
One element in her art is symbolism and the translation of icons into archetypes. The egg, the sphere, the round, the zero or “nothing” and their reflections, the heart, the spiral, the geometries of nature and many other familiar symbols and concepts appear in various guises, media and materials throughout her artistic course.
She works in Athens and teaches at the art workshops of Fougaro in Nafplio since 2013.
