Darren R Rousar

Darren R. Rousar is an atelier-trained artist and teacher who teaches students how to see better so that they can draw and paint better. He does this by first teaching them how to see using Sight-Size. Darren has written numerous books, his most recent being Cast Drawing in Sight-Size: An Atelier Manual. He has been teaching students how to see, draw, and paint since 1988, both in the States and in Florence, Italy. He frequently publishes articles on SightSize. com. While still in high school,...See more

Darren R. Rousar is an atelier-trained artist and teacher who teaches students how to see better so that they can draw and paint better. He does this by first teaching them how to see using Sight-Size. Darren has written numerous books, his most recent being Cast Drawing in Sight-Size: An Atelier Manual. He has been teaching students how to see, draw, and paint since 1988, both in the States and in Florence, Italy. He frequently publishes articles on SightSize. com. While still in high school, Darren studied privately with Annette LeSueur and then with Richard Lack. After high school he spent four years at Atelier LeSueur in Minnesota, followed by an additional year at Studio Cecil-Graves in Florence, Italy. During the mid-1990's he was the assistant director and an instructor at Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, after which he became vice president of The Minnesota River School of Fine Art in Burnsville, Minnesota. Through his publishing company, Velatura Press, Darren has also republished an expanded edition of E.G. Lutz's book Drawing Made Easy (1921) and edited a combined reprint of Asher B. Durand's Letters on Landscape Painting (1855) with Birge Harrison's Landscape Painting (1910). As an artist Darren paints strictly from life and prefers to make many of his own materials. He and his wife Kathleen, who is also an artist, live in Excelsior, Minnesota. See less