NEW! Short-class-Introduction to Portrait Drawing
Spring Class | Available
Using mostly simple, portable and inexpensive materials, you’ll explore the foundational ideas and techniques needed to create realistic portraits from life, photographs or even invention. Starting with basic volumes and forms, the classes progressively build in complexity as you take on challenges and achieve mastery. Whether you are a painter, illustrator, or cartoonist, this course will significantly expand your ability to draw believable and expressive heads and faces while creating a framework for future growth in your figurative work.
Portrait Studio Philadelphia
- Please bring $15 (model fee) paid to instructor in class
- A sketchbook for drawings and notes
A 9x12 pad of drawing paper
HB, 2B, and 4B pencils.
Inexpensive drafting divider, proportional divider or compass
Friedman
RA Friedman received a BA in Scene Design from Harpur College, SUNY and an MFA in Painting from Louisiana State University. He has exhibited his work nationally in venues including InLiquid in Philadelphia, The Merchant’s House Museum, Pratt Institute Manhattan, and The New Bedford Art Museum. Friedman is an instructor at Pratt Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His recent work, The Covid-19 Portrait Project, has been featured on WHYY, ABC and NBC TV and published in the Broad Street Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Jewish Exponent. rafriedman.com