BACAA/Lucas Bononi Figure Painting 2026

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Figure Painting

Dates: December 3-6, 2026 (4) days
Hours: 11:00-5:00
Lunch: 1:30-2:15

(Not recommended for beginning students.)

Course Description
Over the course of four days, participants will work from one life model, gaining a deeper understanding of anatomy, structure, and the principles of light and form. Through a balance of guided instruction and individual practice, students will focus on building truthful volume and atmosphere in their paintings.

Daily lectures, demonstrations, and critiques will support each stage of the process—from the initial block-in to refined modeling and finishing. Students of all levels are welcome.

Daily Breakdown:

Day 1: Block-in and gesture

Day 2: Three-dimensional contour drawing

Day 3: Conceptual form modeling and optics

Day 4: Structure, anatomy, and "under modeling”

BIO:
Lucas Bononi (b. 1991, Los Angeles) is a contemporary painter based in New York. Trained in expressionism at the Academy of Art University San Francisco, where he earned his BFA in painting, and in naturalism at Grand Central Atelier, he now teaches its core program. Bononi’s paintings intricately weave the human form with elements of nature, using nuanced color and light to create a marbling effect that blends flesh with natural landscapes such as rivers, forests, and fire. This interplay seeks to reconnect viewers with primal perception through sensation rather than symbolism, inviting a renewed attentiveness to the physical world. His work challenges conventions in contemporary figurative painting by exploring the tension between figuration and abstraction, where forms emerge, dissolve, and reconfigure within the same visual field.

Cost: $790

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