Portrait Drawing (Monday Afternoon)
Adult Class | Available
This course offers students a solid foundation in portrait drawing, with a focus on building confidence and accuracy. Instruction focuses on the fundamentals of achieving a strong likeness, including head structure, feature placement, and careful observation of light and shadow. Students will develop a deeper understanding of how to see and translate the human face into a drawing. Work will be based on photographs, drawings, live models, and masterworks.
What You Will Learn:
- The ability to get a strong likeness every time
- The observation and understanding of head structure.
- Learning to see the direction of light in terms of light and shadow patterns
- Observing complexion as a relationship of skin color, hair color and eye color
- Seeing the three qualities of light: light, transition and shadow
Who This Class Is For:
Students looking to seriously develop their portrait drawing skills through focused instruction, group demonstrations, and individualized instructor feedback. Questions about whether this class is right for you? Email adulteducation@fleisher.org.
Please note: There will be no class on Monday, January 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) and Monday, February 15 (Presidents' Day).
- Charcoal and Pencils, 2B, 4B, 8B and HB
- Newsprint and Charcoal pads, 16 x 20 inches or smaller
- White Conte and White Charcoal
- 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/