Workshop | Fundamentals of Portrait Drawing 4-Day

Portrait Drawing from Life Workshop

$240 - All Materials Provided.

Join Artist Michele Del Campo for an engaging 4-week portrait drawing workshop designed to enhance your skills and creativity when creating a portrait. Each session lasts 2.5 hours and is open to all skill levels, encouraging individual expression alongside technical growth.

· Friday, March 7th – 3pm to 6pm

· Friday, March 14th – 3pm to 6pm

· Friday, March 21st – 3pm to 6pm

· Friday, March 28th – 3pm to 6pm

(No makeup dates)

What to Expect:

In this immersive workshop, participants will explore the art of portrait drawing through a structured approach. Each week will focus on different essential techniques:

- Day 1: Basic structure and proportions of the head: a constructive method.Demonstration of the average proportions of the human head, covering frontal, profile and ¾ views. Exercises will follow the demo.

- Day 2: The elements of the face: breaking down the individual facial featuresDiscussing the form of eyes, nose, mouth and ears, how to see and represent them at different angles and how to relate them to each other within the structure of the face in general.

- Day 3: Shadow mapping and the concept of value for creating dimensionality.Explanation of concepts of local tone versus shadow pattern; the sculpting shadows method: how to go beyond the constructive method learned in the first lesson for a more advanced and intuitive approach.

- Day 4: This session will be with a live model. After previously tackling portraits on blanc paper to build up values by adding pencil marks, in the last day we will start on a surface already toned, and we will remove material to create highlights and form, apart from adding pencil and charcoal marks for the darker values.

Materials:

All essential materials will be provided, with optional materials available for a fee. Participants are also welcome to bring any materials they feel comfortable using.

Grew up in San Nicandro Garganico, a small town in southern Italy. Isolated in the countryside, he would spend his time drawing and cycling long distances, when not at school. When he was 18 his family moved to Milan, and after beginning to study Fine Arts, disappointed with the learning, at the age of 20 he began a pilgrimage which led him to live in many places around the world. After studying Illustration in Falmouth (England) and then Dundee (Scotland) he went to Madrid (Spain) where he resumed his studies in Fine Arts and at the same time he began exhibiting in art galleries. In 2006 he won the most prestigeous painting prize in Spain, the “Premio BMW”, and in 2007 he finished his Master of Fine Arts.

In 2008 he moved to London, where he had several solo exhibitions, and in 2016 to Glasgow (Scotland). In this city, where there is hardly any of the sun that he grew up with, and while he was preparing solo exhibitions for international galleries in Lima (Perú), Madrid (Spain) or San Francisco (USA), he decided there was no point in struggling to find a good artist studio and commit to spending years in the same place. He stopped accumulating objects, got rid of possessions and began to travel and paint wherever he was, and then take the rolled-up canvases to the galleries with which he collaborated. In 2017 he began to travel with two suitcases and a tube for the canvases, where he captured the inspiration found in each place. In 2023 Del Campo moved to Miami. Del Campo has had solo shows in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, London, Milan, Lugano, Lima, San Francisco and Dallas, and has participated in group shows and art fairs in Europe, Asia, the United States and Latin America.

In his art, locations remain unidentifiable, as he frequently blends aspects from one city with those of another. Instead, his primary emphasis lies on individuals, their narratives, connections, and emotions, which surpass geographical boundaries and manifest in a more extensive human encounter.

He paints people his friends and family, and the people he meets in his travels, and fondly cultivates his circle without borders. His paintings, far from simply seeking to capture a resemblance with his sitters or the reality as it is, strive to construct a narrative. He gets inspiration from the stories of his sitters, to speak about the uprooting, the zest for life, the solitude and the awareness of the ephemeral.

In his recent paintings, he's transcending realism, crafting compositions that embody fragments of a reality formed by diverse moments and places. This connection mirrors the way we engage with images nowadays.

More info micheledelcampo.com

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Arts Warehouse, 313 Northeast 3rd Street, Delray Beach, United States