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Painting and Drawing from Life
 Jack Faragasso has been teaching drawing and painting in the traditional academic manner to both beginning and advanced students at the Art Students League since 1968. Mr. Faragasso believes that success is based on a firm foundation and that with such a foundation one can evolve into whatever kind of artist one chooses.
“One must learn how to see, how to think and how to do. Seeing is different than looking, for much of what we look at is illusionary. One must be made aware of these illusions and learn to see and paint nature correctly. This is accomplished with a completely related system where every aspect of drawing and painting is revealed and taught.”
Among the many subjects taught in Mr. Faragasso’s class are the setting up of the palette, mixing complexion tones and colors, underpainting, the laying in and massing of tones, edges, planes and forms and a thorough knowledge of light and shade.
Mr. Faragasso studied at the Art Students League in New York and at its Woodstock summer school with the late Frank Reilly, where he learned how to paint landscapes and the figure outdoors. While still a young student, he was selected by Broadway producer and radio personality Richard Kollmar to form a founding nucleus for his Little Studio Gallery in New York. Later, he went to Europe to study the Old Masters and upon returning commenced a successful career as a fine artist, illustrator, art instructor and writer. His illustrations appeared on thousands of paperback covers throughout the country and overseas.
For more than a decade he has concentrated solely on the fine arts, teaching and writing. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries in Scottsdale, Arizona; New York City and Woodstock, New York. His paintings are in numerous public and private collections, including those of Clare Booth Luce, financier James Rogers, Charles Osgood, the National Museum of American Art in Newport, Rhode Island, and the Museum of the Tuskegee Institute of Alabama.
Mr. Faragasso’s book, The Students’ Guide to Painting, was published by the North Light Publishing Co. in 1980 and became a best-seller. His latest book is Mastering Drawing the Human Figure from Life, Memory, Imagination.
Mr. Faragasso was director and instructor at Frank J. Reilly’s School of Art in 1967. He has also taught at the Woodstock School of Art and the Scottsdale Artists’ School of Arizona. He is a member of Artists’ Fellowship, the American Society of Portrait Painters, and is the subject and author of numerous articles on artistic matters.
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