Class Description:

This course is designed for beginners and experienced artists who wish to have studio time sculpting the human figure.

Students will begin by learning to see the planar forms body through careful observation of the human figure. The instructor will then introduce students to primary and some secondary muscle forms of a generalized human figure. The course will cover various techniques that have been used over time to interpret the human figure into art.
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Spring Session Dates:

Scheduled occurrences for the next session of this class are as follows:

Week
Date
Time
Week 1:
1/28/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 2:
2/04/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 3:
2/11/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 4:
2/18/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 5:
2/25/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 6:
3/04/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 7:
3/11/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 8:
3/18/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 9:
3/25/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 10:
4/08/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 11:
4/15/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET
Week 12:
4/22/2023
10 am - 1 pm ET


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

  2. Week 1 - Let's Begin!

  3. Week 2 - Blocking in the Figure

  4. Week 3 - The Torso

  5. Week 4 - The Human Back

  6. Week 5 - Upper Arms

  • $670.00
  • In-Person
  • 12 Weeks
  • Beginner to Advanced

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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