THE ART OF DRAWING PORTRAITS

Vitaliy Zherdev’s Workshop

Ukrainian artist Vitaliy Zherdev, is holding a workshop The Art of Drawing Portraits coinciding with his exhibition Portraits: the Monks in the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation.
The workshop is structured in two indivisible modules of 16 hours each.
Thanks to his extraordinary artistic skills, participants will be guided in the use of different graphic techniques (sepia, charcoal, graphite, etc.) to best express the physical and psychological characteristics of the faces, always different depending on the age, moods, personalities and individual characters of the different models.
The course aims to actively and individually engage the participants, in order that each of them be both – an artist and a model, portraying each other and then selecting one or another of them from time to time as a model for a posing session.
During the course, the teacher will personally supervise each participant so that all of them is able to go ahead independently, developing their own aptitudes and personal technical and expressive skills within a special context.

The Workshop is addressed to

The workshop is addressed to graduates and students of Academies of Fine Arts and of the different disciplines of visual arts, to artists, young and not young, and to all those who while having an ability in drawing, including amateurs, are interested in deepening and improving their technical and expressive proficiency.

When and How

Vitaly Zherdev‘s workshop The Art of Drawing Portraits is to be held in two indivisible modules of 16 hours each, over two consecutive weekends (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) coinciding with his exhibition Portraits: the Monks. The first one is from May 17 to 19, 2024. The second one is from May 24 to 26, 2024; both of them will take place in Florence, at Franco Zeffirelli Foundation, Piazza San Firenze, 5.

The lessons will have the following schedule:

Friday, May 17 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m
Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m
Sunday, May 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m
Friday, May 24 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m
Saturday, May 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m
Sunday, May 26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m

The course will be conducted in English and Italian.

At the end of the course, participants will be issued an attendance certificate.

The Program

To learn to observe each other, sketching their peers’ portraits.
Rotating selection of one of them as a model for a posing session, in order to understand, through direct experience, the ways and feelings of those portrayed.
The study of the psychology of portraiting and of individual characteristics, both intimate and physical, of individual models.
The use of differing materials and techniques to best express the physical and psychological characteristics of the models.
The choice of which technique is suitable to different types of paper.

Participants should bring different types of drawing paper in various colours (non-white) and of different grain (from smooth sheets to different degrees of roughness), of various sizes, including 35×50 cm.

For what it concerns drawing materials, we recommend soft pencils, charcoal, sepia pencils, sanguine and chalk, pastels, and, in general, all what each participant usually prefers.

The Cost

The master class costs 500 euros for the two indivisible modules, payable by Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

Payment must be made by bank transfer in favor of the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation.

Bank Account Details:

Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli Onlus
BNL Ag. Roma Bissolati
L.go Santa Susanna, 16
00187 Roma
Codice IBAN: IT 81F0100503200000000014345
Codice BIC SWIFT: BNL I I TRR

The Reason must include the name and the indication “Workshop The Art of Drawing Portraits”

Prerequisites

Applicants must have a birth date before may 17, 2006. No specific educational qualification is required.

How to apply

Those who wish to attend the course should send their completed and signed application form no later than Saturday, May 11, 2024 to the following email address: education@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com

Applications should be accompanied by a concise CV, highlighting skills and experiences that are deemed relevant to the course, as well as photos of some of the work produced.

If there will be less than 6 students, the course will not take place.

Info

For further information on the masterclass, contact us on + 39 055 281038 or write to info@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com or fill out the form below