Class #224: Portrait Drawing with Andrew Conklin

Class #224: Portrait Drawing with Andrew Conklin

Session | Available

All levels
3/18/2025-4/22/2025
2:00 PM-5:00 PM CST on Tue
$310.00

Class #224: Portrait Drawing with Andrew Conklin

Session | Available

For millennia, artists have delighted in drawing the human face and head. It is infinitely challenging and compelling to capture the unique combination of large and small, fixed and mobile forms that combine to produce the sitter’s likeness.  

This drawing course introduces the essentials of proportion, line, shading and color techniques as it examines specific forms drawn from the model. Open to all levels. 

  • This class meets in our 2nd floor studio.
    $50 non-refundable model fee paid directly to the instructor.




Conklin, Andrew
Andrew Conklin

Email: linksboven1@gmail.com
Phone: 312-282-5085
Website: http://cargocollective.com/andrewsconklin

Andrew S. Conklin holds a BFA from the American Academy of Art in Chicago and an MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He received additional instruction at the National Academy of Design in New York and from portraitist Aaron Shikler, painter of the official JFK White House portrait.

Conklin has received a number of awards and grants from national institutions, including the George Sugarman Foundation, the E.D. Foundation, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship Fund.
The artist’s notable portraits include two United States District Court judges, W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. and A. David Mazzone, as well as Dr. Theodore Ziolkowski of Princeton University, and the Honorable Bruce Sundlun, Governor of Rhode Island.

Conklin has taught at Parsons School of Design, and in the MFA program of the New York Academy of Art. He has authored articles on painting and drawing in national publications including Artists Magazine, and his work has appeared in New American Paintings, No. 29 and 83. He is represented in Chicago by Gallery Victor Armendariz, and in London by Signet Contemporary Art.