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i 5 f WATERLDO CHIONIcuoWednad-y. Janulry 5.2011 . l5 1 ‘IJ ; Jr i w t4 ‘ Wondrous physicality O I Local artist celebrates human anatomy Wlth new class at the Button Factory « By MARSHAILWARD ‘ Special to the Chronirle ‘ a he study of human I anatomy is so much ‘ more than the naming of pans and the understanding of _ ; their function," writes Sarah Sim« , blet in Anatomy for the Artist. “It is , the celebration of our wondrous physicality in the world." Waterlooâ€"based artist David . Antscherl is eager to foster that cel- ‘ ebration through a new course called Anatomy for Life Drawing, . which he'll teach this winter term ’ at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre. “it's going to be a six-week , ' , course, filled with all sorts of facts ' , ' ‘ and trivia about anatomy,” says ‘ V ' ’ f 2;,qu . - l _ . I Antscherl, a former physiothera- '_ ' . ‘ {mi-1; . ' ‘s A pm, "i think it will specifically be ' ' ' ~‘ * ‘ ' 1 - i of interest to people who do life ‘ .. ' ‘, drawing, and want to learn what 1 1 y _ ‘ = I all the lumps and bumps are ._ é; ‘, they're looking at when trying to “A ,. “a. ‘ .draw.” Qit ‘ “ 7 "”7 .7 I Antscherl recognizes that life . ., )5 x -_;_ g . drawing (or figure drawing) is a ' .1 " ‘9 ~_. _ 3, discipline concerned not just with " . _ ‘5 \ 5% anatomy. but also with the idea of ~. ' K _' ‘ i" ' ‘fh _ energy‘and bodily movement. “1 * ’ ‘ " ‘ especially think it helps to under- ‘ ’ ‘ 5,). ‘ 5 stand “0‘,” the b???“ ‘5 put together David Antscherl is teaching a new lifeâ€"drawing class at the Button Factory starting Jan. 17. ' and how It moves, he says. . , "And even if you're not con- evening, participants will get a each eye, and a large amount of fat And that's why at first when people says. “But by breaking it down into sciously thinking about it as you chance to draw and consolidate beneath the skin. This is stretched, are just starting out to learn about parts, into a series of abstract draw, 1 find that having that knowl- what they've heard and seen. compressed and often wrinkled life drawing, their figures some- shapes on a page. it becomes a lot edge in the hack of my head helps because listening and looking is into an astonishing range of times appear to look like melting easier to understand. me in my own drawings." only a part of the learning process expression by a thin and very deli- wax â€" it's because they haven't “When it comes to the human - in the course, Antscherl will be â€" the doing is really important as cate layer ofmuscles.” articulated the anatomy properly” form, you can never have too focusing on a different part of the well.” “Participants who don’t have That's why Antscherl. who has much knowledge, and i hope peo- ‘ human anatomy each week, using Flipping through the pages of any prior knowledge of the skull taught this course numerous times pie will have fun as well while they , a [we nude model, helping 5“,. Anatomy for the Artist, Antscherl tend to draw what i call balloon over the years in various venues, learn about this terrific subject." 1 dents find a deeper truth in their stops at a chapter that interprets heads. where the eyes and the sharesin the excitement and sense The subject, after all. is us. 1 pursuit to understand the body as the human head. ‘f The head is the mouth look like they're on the sur- of achievement participants gain a Complex ”Hymn,” and muscles. vital sign and engine of our being." face of a spheroH shape. But in studying human anatomy. while Anatomy for Life Drawing ' “1‘“ be starting with the head Simblet writes. “This complex ball actual fact, they Miriam that the improving their drawings?) and working down," Antscherl of bone and soft tissue is our main eyes are really set ba' far into the “Most people, particularly With DavidAntscheI'l . , explains. "I'll spend the first part of gateway to the world and the seat head, along with the colfiers of the beginners, when faced with the Waterloo CommunityAnsCetre ‘ the evening talking about the body of all our understanding. mouth, and so on,” Antsc'hesl said. human body find it to be too much January 17 to P81308172]. j structures underneath and the soft The structure of the face begins “In the case of the body, Wod- information coming in all at once F0! more information visit: ‘ ‘ tissue on top. while sketching deep within bones of the skull, pants will discover there are he â€" and that's why they tend to get www.buttonfaotoryans.ca . ‘ along. which are overlaid by the cartilages tain places where movement very distraught or completely dis- ‘ Then, in.the second half of the of the nose and ears. the globe of occurs. and some places it doesn‘t?" mayed by life drawing.” Antscherl 4 v 1 Y , ‘ J l . m Qua' -. 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