The “guest” Artists for this Foundation Crash Course is Pierre Paul Prud’Hon, a Neo-classical artists active between the 18^th and 19^th century.

The mesmerizing play of light and shadows on the forms of the figures in his drawings are simply sublime, a pleasure to look at. But these artworks are also didactically very helpful to the artist that wants to practice his perfect technique, one of the most efficient for figure drawing, cast drawing and portraiture. In the 2 online drawing sessions of this course, we will have occasion study it in detail his refined, precise and clean technique and expand our technical and aesthetic knowledge making copies of a few of his artworks using charcoal and chalk on toned paper.

Materials:

A few of sheets of gray and tan toned paper,( such as Strathmore charcoal); charcoal in sticks (Nitram is an excellent product) and compressed charcoal pencils (such as Wolff’s Carbon or General’s) in hard, medium and soft gradations; white chalk in pencil or sticks, kneaded eraser, sand paper for sharpening the charcoal.