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Notice: Karl’s 2020 Seminars have been cancelled due to Coronavirus.

Karl is teaching 10-Week Online Live Streaming Figure and Life Drawing classes on Zoom, beginning with the summer of 2020. Classes begin June 29. Go to www.figuredrawingschool.com to sign up.

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COMING UP SATURDAY, MARCH 14

LANDSCAPE SKETCH COMP

Saturday March 14 from 8:30am to 3:00pm 1-Day Outdoor Sketch Adventure

Landscape Sketch Comp is coming up! There is no architectural and perspective sketching here, just beautiful nature. It’s plenty to consider when grasping good composition is the goal.

Our locations are always close to LA, yet one feels transported in these wonderful places. The way it works is that we spend an hour or so at various spots along enchanting trails. It’s easy to do several sketches or a single sketch. We will have a discussion of ideas with handouts and I will be working with you individually along the way.

Anyone is welcome as we will have a good mix of beginners and professionals wanting to experiment with new ideas. All drawing and painting tools are acceptable except oil paint. Anything you can stuff into a backpack.

Don’t forget bottled water, a packed lunch, and a sweater or jacket. Some of us will be sitting on a rock or on a slope and some of will bring a light-to-carry canvas folding chair. Take your pick. I will give you the location soon. Hope to see you there!!

Special Guild pricing of $160 per Seminar/Workshop, with discounts for purchase of two seminars or all three. Open to the public. Register online at GnassStudios.com https://bit.ly/2LqBYxU Or contact Karl at karlgnass@gmail.com

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PAST SEMINARS

Join us for Landscape Sketch Comp on Sat, Sept 28! Nature will be our inspiration for this all-day intensive workshop that takes place at a beautiful outdoor location, here in Los Angeles (TBA). We’ll be sketching at various scenic spots along the path, we’ll have a discussion of ideas with handouts, and I’ll be working with you individually along the way.

Anyone is welcome as we’ll have a good mix of beginners and professionals wanting to experiment with new ideas. All drawing and painting tools are acceptable except oil paint. Anything you can stuff into a backpack.

Bring some good walking shoes, and a sweater or jacket. Don’t forget bottled water and a packed lunch. Some of us will be sitting on a rock or on a slope and some of us may want to bring a light-to-carry canvas folding chair. Take your pick. I will give you the location soon. Hope to see you there!!

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Expression: The Source of Expression & Character

— Saturday, August 17 from 10am to 3:30pm

— 1-Day Intensive Seminar/ Workshop

Join us for “Expression: The Source of Expression & Character”. I’ll cover what it is and isn’t, how it really works, how character acts as a booster for expression and not as a replacement for it.

We’ll have two models, John Mackey and Rachel Bailit, helping us throughout the day, working both independently and with each other to create story. It’s at the Animation Guild in Burbank.

Any drawing level is welcome as we have a good mix of beginners and professionals.

Special Guild pricing of $160 per Seminar/Workshop, with discounts for purchase of two or more seminars during the year. Open to the public.

Easy procedures and concepts that help simplify confusing forms in perspective. Finding grace and rhythm in otherwise impossible to draw poses.

Date: Saturday, July 20th

Time: 10am to   3:30pm

Location: AAI Animation Guild, 1105 N. Hollywood Way, Burbank CA

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DRAWING CHARACTERS & FOOLS

— Saturday, May 18  10:00am to 3:30pm

— 1-Day Intensive Seminar/Workshop

Join us for ‘Drawing Characters & Fools’, coming up May 18! We have two great comic professionals, John Mackey and Jonnathon Cripple, as models for this seminar. We will explore character and expression, the differences between the two, and how they support one another.

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TWO FIGURE COMPOSITION

— Saturday, April 13

— 1-Day Intensive Seminar/Workshop

Two Figure Composition is coming up soon! I invite you to join me for this special intensive seminar/workshop offered for the only time this year.

For those of you who joined me in the Landscape Sketch Composition last month and enjoyed my thoughts on composition, we will be continuing these themes in this new seminar “Two Figure Comp”.

Remember, composition for us is everything.

Working with two figures gives us a chance to explore the values of composition. We will not just copy what we see, but will learn to visually express an idea or a story inspired by the poses. We will discuss how we can apply these same discoveries to one figure composition, multiple figures, and even to abstract composition.

Any drawing level is welcome as we have a good mix of beginners and professionals.

Special Guild pricing of $160 per Seminar/Workshop, with discounts for purchase of two or more seminars during the year. Open to the public.

LANDSCAPE SKETCH COMP

Saturday March 16  8:30am to 3:00pm 1-Day Outdoor Sketch Adventure

Landscape Sketch Comp is coming up! There is no architectual and perspective sketching here, just beautiful nature. It’s plenty to consider when grasping good composition is the goal.

Our locations are always close to LA, yet one feels transported in these wonderful places. The way it works is that we spend an hour or so at various spots along enchanting trails. It’s easy to do several sketches or a single sketch. We will have a discussion of ideas with handouts and I will be working with you individually along the way.

Anyone is welcome as we will have a good mix of beginners and professionals wanting to experiment with new ideas. All drawing and painting tools are acceptable except oil paint. Anything you can stuff into a backpack.

Don’t forget bottled water, a packed lunch, and a sweater or jacket. Some of us will be sitting on a rock or on a slope and some of will bring a light-to-carry canvas folding chair. Take your pick. I will give you the location soon. Hope to see you there!!

Special Guild pricing of $160 per Seminar/Workshop, with discounts for purchase of multiple seminars up to all 7 in 2019. Open to the public.

LANDSCAPE SKETCH COMP

Saturday October 20 8:30am to 3:00pm 1-Day Outdoor Sketch Adventure

Landscape Sketch Comp is coming up! There is no architectual and perspective sketching here, just beautiful nature. It’s plenty to consider when grasping good composition is the goal.

Our locations are always close to LA, yet one feels transported in these wonderful places. The way it works is that we spend an hour or so at various spots along enchanting trails. It’s easy to do several sketches or a single sketch. We will have a discussion of ideas with handouts and I will be working with you individually along the way.

Anyone is welcome as we will have a good mix of beginners and professionals wanting to experiment with new ideas. All drawing and painting tools are acceptable except oil paint. Anything you can stuff into a backpack.

Don’t forget bottled water, a packed lunch, and a sweater or jacket. Some of us will be sitting on a rock or on a slope and some of will bring a light-to-carry canvas folding chair. Take your pick. I will give you the location soon. Hope to see you there!!

Special Guild pricing of $160 per Seminar/Workshop, with discounts for purchase of two seminars or all three. Open to the public. Register online at GnassStudios.com https://bit.ly/2LqBYxU Or contact Karl at karlgnass@gmail.com

EXPRESSION: THE SOURCE OF EXPRESSION & CHARACTER
Saturday, July 28: 1-Day Intensive Seminar/Workshop

What it is and isn’t, how it really works, how character acts as a booster for expression and not as a replacement for it. Featuring two great character models helping to create story: John Mackey & Rachel Bailit