Drawing the Figure
Adult Class | FULL
Designed for artists eager to explore the human form, this course offers a foundational approach to figure drawing. Students will focus on proportion, gesture, and the use of light and shadow to create form. Lessons will include how to observe and depict the direction of light and complexion with nuance and clarity. The class begins with charcoal and progresses to red and white chalks on toned paper, with the instructor demonstrating each new medium as it is introduced. While introductory in nature, the course emphasizes core principles that benefit students at all levels.
What you will learn:
1. The observation and understanding of gesture in all aspects of the figure
2. Learning to see the direction of light in terms of light and shadow patterns
3. Observing the model's complexion as a relationship of skin color, hair color, and eye color
4. Seeing the three qualities of light: light, transition, and shadow
Please note: Class will not meet on Monday, January 19 and Monday, February 16 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. and Presidents' Days.
• Newsprint and charcoal paper pads, 18 x 24 inches
• Charcoal and pencils, 2B, 4B 6B and HB
• White conte and white charcoal pencils
• Kneaded eraser
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Paul DuSold
Paul duSold is a Philadelphia artist and instructor. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. He is known for oil paintings of human figures, portraits, and still lifes. His artwork, which he describes as “atmospheric representationalism” is influenced by sixteenth and seventeenth century Italian and Spanish painters. His paintings can be found in numerous public and private collections, and he has exhibited in a number of prestigious institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Museum, Fleischer Art Memorial, Perkins Center for the Arts, Wayne Art Center, Ursinus College, and Michener Art. He has curated exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum, Wayne Art Center, and Woodmere Art Museum. duSold has been a painting instructor for more than thirty years at various institutions including Wayne Art Center, the Delaware Art Museum, and Main Line Art Center. He continues to teach at Fleischer Art Memorial and Woodmere Art Museum. In his teaching, he emphasizes the formal qualities of painting; color, light and shadow, edge quality, tonal relationships.
https://www.pauldusold.com/