Timothy Stotz
Bio
Timothy Stotz is the founder and director of Studio Escalier. He is represented by Paul Toner, 248 Lafayette Street in New York City, and John Pence Gallery, 750 Post Street in San Francisco. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, at the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts, and privately. His work is included in public and private collections across the United States and Europe.
He has been the recipient of many distinguished grants, fellowships and exhibition prizes for his painting. They include an extended Fulbright-Hays Grant for Painting to Madrid, Spain, where he was sponsored by the painter Antonio Lopez Garcia, the Museo del Prado, and the Real Academia de San Fernando; a Vermont Studio Center fellowship, where he worked with the painter Gregory Gillespie; and two grants for classical painting from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montreal, Canada.
Mr Stotz (b. 1969) received his MFA degree in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he studied under Andrew Forge, NA. He went to art school in France at the Ecole Albert Defois under Ted Seth Jacobs (1993-2001) and went to graduate school at the New York Academy of Art (1995-97). He holds a BA degree cum laude in Fine Arts from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia.
Additionally, Mr Stotz was one of eight original members of the Jacob Collins Studio (1995-97) and was one of eleven founding members of the Water Street Atelier (1997), both in Brooklyn, NY.
Also visit Tim’s daily painting site: http://silverfortress.blogspot.com/
Classes taught by Timothy Stotz
Defining Likeness and Character in Oil
This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
This two-week workshop introduces the instructor’s contemporary-classical vocabulary, and examines the visual and natural design concepts that define portraiture: likeness and character. The class will strongly emphasize structural drawing and wet-into-wet painting, toward a greater awareness of visual action, and refinement of the student’s technique and sense of form. Teaching will consist of lecture-demonstrations on the complex actions of light, the visible design and features of the head, neck and hands, one-on-one critique at the easel, and supervised exercises, in both short and long portrait poses. Topics will include: Elements of 3-D Design: The Visual Field: Seeing Complex Actions of Light The Structure, Sequence and Style of Living Form – Head, Neck and Hands
Color Perception – Theory and Practice:
Keying and Characterizing the Light
Working Out of a Base and Shaping the Light
Portrait Design and Execution
Underdrawing, Chromatic Underpainting and Single-Pass Painting (24-color, prismatic palette)
Portrait Drawing
This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
February Program – Portrait Drawing and Painting
This month-long workshop is a rare opportunity for beginners, serious students and emerging artists to study portraiture with Timothy Stotz and Michelle Tully, the founding teachers of Studio Escalier (France).
The class will be divided into two weeks of portrait drawing (taught by Timothy Stotz) and two weeks of portrait painting (taught by Michelle Tully).
These two-week workshops introduce the instructors’ contemporary-classical vocabulary, and examines the visual and natural design concepts that define portraiture, likeness and character.
The drawing section will examine likeness from its foundation: the nature of light and style of natural form. This will include characterizing the features and various actions of the head and face, and a survey of “structural” drawing in general. It will push students toward a greater awareness of their own visual actions, and a refinement of their conceptual understanding, technique and sense of form. Teaching will consist of lecture-demonstrations on the complex actions of light, the organic design and features of the head, neck, shoulders and hands, one-on-one critique at the easel, and supervised exercises, in both short- and long portrait poses
The painting section will build upon this foundation, examining portrait design and execution in oils. It will emphasize color perception, “posterizing” and keying the light, efficient underdrawing, monochromatic underpainting, and painting with oils wet-into-wet (aka, “out of a base” or “form painting”) with a 24-color, prismatic palette.
Although students may sign up separately for either the portrait drawing or portrait painting sections of this month-long course, the instructors highly recommend taking the classes consecutively.
Figure Drawing- EVENING CLASS
This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
“Technique is nothing but the level of joy in your playing. So, we watch and play with the form, not the technique.” Timothy Stotz
The phenomenal presence and truth-to-life of any work of figurative art depends wholly on an artist’s sense of form. The human body has a style and substance all its own, one that has been an endless source for our aesthetics and art since the time of the Greeks.
This complex sense for the integrity, radiance, plenitude and rhapsody of the body’s design has been the conscious concern of serious painters since the dawn of the Baroque. It resides more than one step beyond a technical or academic reading of light and form, or of artistic anatomy, and will be demonstrated as a matter of real depth and creative importance for contemporary classical artists.
This 5-night drawing seminar is an opportunity for intermediate and advanced draftsmen to benefit from a critique and discussion based on these concepts and concerns, touching equally upon visual, conceptual and physical awareness. For the sake of economy and brevity, students will be encouraged to work in an 18th century manner, using charcoal in combination with 2 or 3 colored chalks on toned paper.
This class is ideally for intermediate to advanced students.
The instructor would like registered students to email him 2 portfolio images so that he may review them and better plan the curriculum to suit their needs.
Please email portfolio submissions to: Studio Escalier [studioescalier@gmail.com]