Abstracting Landscape: by Construction & Deconstruction Process with Mashiul

Abstracting Landscape: by Construction & Deconstruction Process with Mashiul

Fall Workshop | This course is completed

414 Plush Mill Road Wallingford, PA 19086 United States
Duke Gallery
10/5/2023 (one day)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Th
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$100.00
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Abstracting Landscape: by Construction & Deconstruction Process with Mashiul

Fall Workshop | This course is completed

Join exhibiting artist, Mashiul for a one day intensive workshop. By construction & deconstruction process, demonstration of abstracting landscape will be shown by an unconventional method. Using charcoal to draw with and then paint, an architectural shape and form will emerge. Emphasis on drawing and how it helps loosening your painting, one of the central focus of this process.



  • Oil or acrylic paints of your choice. Original Liquin. Brushes, palette knife. Any surfaces but preferably papers, sketchbooks, small size canvas, boards etc. Charcoal pencils. Drawing papers and newsprints.

Mashiul Chowdhury

Webpage: https://www.artsy.net/artist/mashiul-chowdhury

Mashiul Chowdhury is a Philadelphia-based artist and an alumnus of Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts (PAFA). He is also in the faculty of several art institutes in Philadelphia Including Penn Studio School of Art. 

Mashiul Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He grew up and went to medical school in Bangladesh and immigrated to the US in his late 20s. Mashiul started to attend alumni figure drawing session at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (PAFA) in 2002. 

Mashiul’s work has won multiple awards including Best Landscape Award n 2014 at the Philadelphia Sketch Club.  He won second place at “In-Person” show for his figure drawing in a national competition in 2018. In 2022, he was one of the winners of “Strokes of Genius” special edition of Artist Magazine in USA.  His work is in the permanent collections of the Capital One Corporate Center in Wilmington, Delaware, Cancer Treatment Center of America and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Mashiul exhibited his works in at least 10 solo show since 2009. 

Mashiul offers workshop on abstracting landscape and figure drawing. He was invited to run workshop in New Zealand in 2019 and most recently in Bangladesh. He regularly teaches online and in-person. He has gained huge followers in social media.

Mashiul’s landscape painting process follows construction and deconstruction concept. He takes participants through an unconventional method. Using charcoal to draw with and then paint, an abstraction of texture, color and balance of architectural shape and form will emerge. All levels of students will be able to enjoy the process, use of color, line and space, use of notan in developing a painting. Mashiul gives emphasis on basic skill of drawing and shows how it helps loosening an image.