Virtual Life Drawing with Bryce Cameron Liston

Except for a short time at the University of Utah, Bryce has directed his own educational path.  He has often learned skills in no particular order: some drawing and painting; then 15 years apprenticeship in bronze sculpture, with his mentor Edward J Fraughton; then he focused on drawing and painting once again.

He thinks of art education like the spiral of a spring. He continually moves around the spiral of rendering the figure in paint, he finds himself discovering how to say more with less, to convey the essence of emotion, character and human experience with fewer highly defined details and more telling gesture, more emphasis on shadow and light.

His sculpture work cemented his belief in the value of truly understanding anatomy and the human form.

He tells his students they’ll know when they get the form right with sculpture by the way the light falls on it; and with figurative painting, when the light is executed just so, it makes the form come to life.

Join us for an evening of life drawing and explore deep inside Bryce’s unique approach to the figure and how his experience in sculpting - as a 3D approach to the figure- influences his drawing and painting techniques.