• green underpainting of nude woman
  • painting of a man in yellow underwear
  • Painting of a womans belly

Class Description:

Explore academic figure painting by working from a live model.

Students will learn how to apply indirect painting techniques, beginning by refining light value and edge in a monochromatic underpainting, transitioning into limited color through temperature studies, and opening into intense chroma with an expanded palette. Emphasis in this course is on analytical seeing/interpreting of the human form. *This is a multi-session course. However, taking Session I is NOT required to sign up for this class. Session I and II contain separate methods and can be taken independently.
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Fall II Semester Dates:

Scheduled occurrences for this class are as follows:

Week
Date
Time
Week 1:
10/30/2024
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 2:
11/06/2024
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 3:
11/13/2024
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 4:
11/20/2024
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 5:
11/27/2024
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 6:
12/04/2024
6:30 - 9:30 pm ET


  1. Before Class - Welcome & How to Prepare for Class

  2. Week 1 - Transferring the Drawing; Beginning the Underpainting

  3. Week 2 - Refining the Underpainting

  4. Week 3 - Limited Color

  5. Week 4- Refining Temperature

  6. Week 5 - Expanding Color

  • $330.00
  • In-Person
  • 6 Weeks
  • Intermediate

Meet Your Instructor

Melanie Berardicelli

Instructor

Melanie Berardicelli is a SURP and CE Painting Professor at the New York Academy of Art. She has been an educator of the fine arts since 2014, teaching painting and drawing, life drawing, sculpture, and art history classes at Ivy League School in Smithtown and USDAN Center for the Fine and Performing Arts. Melanie received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the New York Academy of Art in May 2021 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at SUNY New Paltz in 2017. Melanie’s artwork explores the spark felt when entering the sacred space of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the history of the Roman Martyr Catacomb Saints; her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout New York State, including The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Sotheby’s, Cryptic Gallery, Greenpoint Gallery, Upstream Gallery, The Huntington Arts Council, and The New York Academy of Art. Currently, Melanie assists artist Audrey Flack in her New York and East Hampton studio locations, creating the underpaintings and sculptures for Flack’s current Post-Pop Baroque series. Melanie is also children’s book illustrator. Her work for Augie Goes to the Library- a 48-page commemoration to the New Paltz community and the titular Border Collie- was published in 2016.

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