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LcSueur <br />trained in <br />)f both the <br />ionists. In <br />raced back <br />eenth cen ­ <br />se of this <br />udents the <br />y and skill <br />artists can <br />represen- <br />Dne of the <br />Atelier LeSueur offers a full-time, four year program for <br />students interested in the serious and intense studj of <br />traditional drawing and painting. <br />In the Atelier program, students work eight hours a day, live days <br />a week. Half of the student ’s day is spent working in their own <br />studio - cubicles w here they progress through cast, still-life, and <br />portrait painting. The remaining halt day is spent in the lite class, <br />drawing or painting from the human figure. Weekly lectures and <br />assignments are given in composition, anatomy, memory draw - <br />ing. perspective, and art history. <br />Graduates of this program may continue their studies in the <br />adv'anced Atelier program in which the ratio of students to <br />instructor is more limited (four students per instructor). Students <br />are gisen the opportunity to develop the additional skills <br />necessary to do complex interiors and imaginative paintings. <br />9 W <br />X ' J \ i f <br />; <br />I wry IT’:) <br />Students are taught to obtain accurate proportions by using the <br />“sight-size ” method. When drawing still-life objects at their <br />natural size, as in the example above, the still life and canvas <br />are placed side by side. The student stands six to eight feet away <br />to observe the measurements through the use of horizontal and <br />vertical lines. This method was used by such artists as Rembrandt <br />Van Rijn and John Singer Sargent. <br />I