Figure Drawing in Charcoals (6-8pm)
SUMMER 1 : MAY 5 - JUNE 22
Class Description:
This is a figure-drawing and portrait course, where we will be drawing the face and figure from life using the classic materials of compressed charcoal, vine charcoal and conte crayon. We will concentrate on proportions, shading and the process of creating form. We will especially focus on how to create likeliness using relativity of features, how to establish a figure in space with ourselves and models as references for scale. This course will encourage the student’s ability to draw from life through techniques like master studies, speed gesturing, reduction, and some projects stretching over multiple sessions to produce work of various sizes. The main objective is to not only give students an artistic vocabulary and skill , but to increase their ability to see. Students will be repeatedly creating from model studies and are expected to draw figures as they see it, not as they wish the image to look.
NOTE: THERE IS A $50 LIVE MODEL FEE FOR THIS CLASS. PLEASE SELECT THE ADD-ON BELOW.
Teacher Info:
Patricia Renee' Thomas (b. 1995) is a Philadelphia-based painter, drawer, and art educator, with a BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, a MFA from University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design with a certificate in University Education, who’s work questions the repercussions of hyper-visibility, physical safety existing in a racialized society, and camouflage. She has recently exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions with the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, The Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia, PA, The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE as well as Kravets-Wehby Gallery in Chelsea, New York, Kapp Kapp Gallery in Philadelphia, Gaa Gallery in Cologne, Germany. Thomas was an arts educator at Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia; a Black History and social justice community staple and is currently an oil painting, drawing and thesis instructor at University of Pennsylvania, and the 2024-25 Stewart/McMillan Chair of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Instagram - @patriciareneethomas
Website - patriciarthomas.com
SUMMER 1 : MAY 5 - JUNE 22
Class Description:
This is a figure-drawing and portrait course, where we will be drawing the face and figure from life using the classic materials of compressed charcoal, vine charcoal and conte crayon. We will concentrate on proportions, shading and the process of creating form. We will especially focus on how to create likeliness using relativity of features, how to establish a figure in space with ourselves and models as references for scale. This course will encourage the student’s ability to draw from life through techniques like master studies, speed gesturing, reduction, and some projects stretching over multiple sessions to produce work of various sizes. The main objective is to not only give students an artistic vocabulary and skill , but to increase their ability to see. Students will be repeatedly creating from model studies and are expected to draw figures as they see it, not as they wish the image to look.
NOTE: THERE IS A $50 LIVE MODEL FEE FOR THIS CLASS. PLEASE SELECT THE ADD-ON BELOW.
Teacher Info:
Patricia Renee' Thomas (b. 1995) is a Philadelphia-based painter, drawer, and art educator, with a BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, a MFA from University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design with a certificate in University Education, who’s work questions the repercussions of hyper-visibility, physical safety existing in a racialized society, and camouflage. She has recently exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions with the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, The Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia, PA, The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE as well as Kravets-Wehby Gallery in Chelsea, New York, Kapp Kapp Gallery in Philadelphia, Gaa Gallery in Cologne, Germany. Thomas was an arts educator at Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia; a Black History and social justice community staple and is currently an oil painting, drawing and thesis instructor at University of Pennsylvania, and the 2024-25 Stewart/McMillan Chair of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Instagram - @patriciareneethomas
Website - patriciarthomas.com
SUMMER 1 : MAY 5 - JUNE 22
Class Description:
This is a figure-drawing and portrait course, where we will be drawing the face and figure from life using the classic materials of compressed charcoal, vine charcoal and conte crayon. We will concentrate on proportions, shading and the process of creating form. We will especially focus on how to create likeliness using relativity of features, how to establish a figure in space with ourselves and models as references for scale. This course will encourage the student’s ability to draw from life through techniques like master studies, speed gesturing, reduction, and some projects stretching over multiple sessions to produce work of various sizes. The main objective is to not only give students an artistic vocabulary and skill , but to increase their ability to see. Students will be repeatedly creating from model studies and are expected to draw figures as they see it, not as they wish the image to look.
NOTE: THERE IS A $50 LIVE MODEL FEE FOR THIS CLASS. PLEASE SELECT THE ADD-ON BELOW.
Teacher Info:
Patricia Renee' Thomas (b. 1995) is a Philadelphia-based painter, drawer, and art educator, with a BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, a MFA from University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design with a certificate in University Education, who’s work questions the repercussions of hyper-visibility, physical safety existing in a racialized society, and camouflage. She has recently exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions with the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in Chicago, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, The Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia, PA, The Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE as well as Kravets-Wehby Gallery in Chelsea, New York, Kapp Kapp Gallery in Philadelphia, Gaa Gallery in Cologne, Germany. Thomas was an arts educator at Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia; a Black History and social justice community staple and is currently an oil painting, drawing and thesis instructor at University of Pennsylvania, and the 2024-25 Stewart/McMillan Chair of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Instagram - @patriciareneethomas
Website - patriciarthomas.com
