Long Pose Figure Drawing
Adult Course | Available
In this course students will take their knowledge to the next level by developing strategies for the long-pose: how to start, develop and finish a figure drawing. Students will learn fundamental and advanced concepts of anatomy used to “lock-in” to a structural awareness of the figure so as to understand, choose and develop a tactile form. This will be balanced with constant reinforcement of tone and pictorial idea to take their figures into the picture plane to inhabit a viable space and atmosphere. Art history will be relied on heavily to discuss the ideas of form, space and pictorial intent.
SPECIAL NOTE: Figure drawing experience and classical drawing foundations (Bargue or cast drawing) required.
- All dry media is welcome - works must be 18x24 or larger
Alexander Soukas
Alexander Soukas' serious training in the fine arts began upon attending the Walnut Hill School for the arts, one of five high schools in the United States dedicated to rigorous training in music, ballet, theatre, writing, and visual arts. Unsatisfied with his studies, and desiring to pursue a career as an artist, he began homeschooling as a way of earning his diploma while undertaking an apprenticeship with realist figure painter Jason Polins. Soukas studied traditional painting and drawing in Boston with Polins for 4 years, where he now visits as a guest instructor at Polins' atelier, The Boston School of Painting. Years later, Soukas studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a coordinated program with the University of Pennsylvania for a year before leaving to seek a more rigorous classical training at Studio Incamminati. While there, he worked for and studied under Nelson Shanks as one of his last apprentices. https://www.alexandersoukas.com/