Portrait Painting

Costa Vavagiakis

Costa Vavagiakis
www.costavavagiakis.com

Workshop Description

August 3–7

Monday-Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Fee: $920

Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list

This all-day all-week workshop is designed to help the student learn the finer points of this time-honored art form. All the stages of the portrait painting process will be examined from the under-painting to the completed portrait. Students will develop a good foundation for capturing likeness by studying the underlying structure of the skull and features of the face. We will explore the effects of light on skin, mixing flesh tones and application and rendering techniques. All level of students welcome.

About the Instructor

Costa Vavagiakis has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the United States such as The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, ACA Galleries and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries in NY; Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco and The Frye Art Museum, Seattle.

His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States including the Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society and the Arkansas Art Center.  He has been the recipient of many distinguished awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Gregory Millard Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Costa Vavagiakis is featured in publications such as Portrait Painting Atelier; Curve: The Female Nude Now, and in articles in Drawing MagazineAmerican Artist, American Artist Drawing and The Artist’s Magazine, among others.

He has taught at the National Academy of Design School, the New York Academy of Art, 92nd street Y and Brooklyn College. He is currently on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama, the Gage Academy and at the Art Students’ League of New York, where he has taught for over two decades.

Read LINEA’s interview with Costa Vavagiakis here.

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