What’s Included

Please bring a brown-bag lunch. A light continental breakfast will be provided, along with complimentary soft drinks and sparkling water throughout the day.

Albert Handell was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937. At an early age, a favorite activity of his was drawing with chalks on the city streets. He began formal studies of drawing and anatomy at the age of sixteen. In 1954, he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York City to study drawing and anatomy with the late Louis Princilla and the Late Robert Ward Johnson, and later studied painting for two years with Frank Mason. From 1961 to 1965, Mr. Handell lived and traveled in Europe. In Paris, he painted independently in his own studio, working from the model at L'Ecole de La Grande Chaumiere and at the Louvre, copying the old masters.

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Karen Halbert, former college professor of Mathematics and current Landscape Painter, will present the armature systems from an artist's point of view, using examples from art history. Her background in Mathematics gives her a unique perspective though, shall we say following in the footsteps of artist-mathematicians such as Piero della Francesco and Leonardo da Vinci. In this workshop, you will get a glimpse of how a Mathematician perceives the underlying framework of paintings. However, as an experienced professor of introductory college mathematics, Halbert is able to explain the underlying Mathematics in simple, straightforward terms if necessary or desired. However, the main goal of the workshop is for the participants to construct armatures and apply them to their own paintings.

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