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Portrait Drawing @ QArts Gallery

Starts Sept. 26 - 8 Saturday Afternoons, 1:00-4:00pm with Ray MacDonald

Starts Sep 26
320 US dollars
QAA Gallery - Hancock Street

Available spots


Service Description

QArts Gallery, 1229 Hancock St., Quincy (across from Quincy College Course Overview Levels All Levels Welcome Methods Explore various tested, traditional, reliable approaches to drawing to help improve skill and rendering. We will develop and explore a number of approaches to capturing a good likeness and expression. Exercises Study values—lights, mid tones, darks. Sight and proportional sizing. How to scale, Composition, and interesting ways to pose, arrange. Goals Go from sketch, to tonal treatment, to detail, to finished portrait. By the end of the series, you’ll have completed finished drawings of the subjects. Media Dry media only. Pencil, charcoal, pastel, pen. Novel approaches will be demonstrated. What to bring Bring some basics to get started. The instructor will supply some materials. We’ll go from sketch to finished art by the end of the series. $290 Member | $320 Non-member


Upcoming Sessions


Contact Details

  • 1229 Hancock Street, Quincy, MA, USA

    617-770-2482

    info@quincyartma.org


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Quincy Art Association

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26 High School Ave Quincy MA 02169

617-770-2482  |  info@quincyartma.org

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1229 Hancock St., Quincy, MA 02169 

(across from Quincy College)

617-302-3969  | info@quincyartma.org

The QArts Gallery is managed and operated by member volunteers. Hours vary weekly based on volunteer availability.

Parking

  • Metered parking on the street

  • Paid parking in the President’s Parking Lot located on Saville Ave. From either direction, look for the National Park Visitors Center on the corner of Hancock St. & Saville Ave. to park. The QArts Gallery is directly across the street from the National Park Visitors Center and Quincy College.

  • Weekends: Free parking behind the QArts Gallery in the MBTA lot. From either direction look for Starbuck’s on the end of our block on Hancock St. At that traffic light turn into the MBTA entrance and parking lot. You will need to walk a short distance around to the gallery’s front entrance on Hancock Street. 

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