2025 SPRING in PARIS / PORTRAIT STUDIO

“I made an effort to develop this personality by counting above all on my intuition, by returning again and again to fundamentals. When difficulties stopped me in my work, I said to myself: ‘I have colors, a canvas, I must express myself with purity, even though I do it in the briefest manner by putting down, for instance, four or five spots of color, or by drawing four or five lines which have a plastic expression.'”

– Henri Matisse, interviewed by Apollinaire (1907)

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LOCATION:	The Spring in Paris Portrait Studio – 4-week program will offer drawing and painting the portrait from life in our new Paris Program Studio in Montmartre. Please see our Facilities page for details on the location.
CLASS DATES:	The program will meet as follows: Monday, 12 May – Friday, 6 June 2025 (4 weeks)
CLASS SCHEDULE:	Drawing and painting the portrait from life 25 hrs/week (afternoons 13:00-18:00, Monday – Friday) The course will offer a curriculum of studio drawing & painting the portrait from life for 4 weeks, drawing and painting offered alternately week by week. No museum component is offered in this class.
CLASS SIZE:	10 maximum + instructors
WHO is ELIGIBLE?	Anyone may apply – There are no academic or other pre-requisites. All students must enroll full-time for the course, held in our Paris Program Studio in Montmartre.
TUITION PRICE:	3000 EUR Cost of housing in Paris not included. Students required to find and contract their own housing in Paris.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:	FRIDAY, 1st NOVEMBER 2024
ADMISSIONS DECISIONS RETURNED:	SUNDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2024
TUITION PAYMENT DUE:	SATURDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2024
HOW to APPLY:	Admissions for 2025 SPRING in PARIS – PORTRAIT STUDIO will open soon. Please review the ADMISSIONS page for general information about the application process. Desktop and laptop users can apply ONLINE. Coming Soon Smartphone and tablet users can apply OFFLINE. Request the course application using the link below:

 

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COURSE DESCRIPTION: “2025 Spring in Paris – Portrait Studio”

Our Spring in Paris – Portrait Studio is a special program that offers a unique curriculum of drawing & painting from life in our Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, 25 hrs/week (afternoons 13:00-18:00, Monday to Friday).

The course will offer a structured curriculum of daily drawing & painting the portrait from life for 4 weeks.

Students will draw primarily on toned paper, using black and white media as well as with a limited palette of coloured chalk/ dry media.

Demonstrations will focus on theory in practice, discussing light, form, construction, character, and expression.

Students will primarily explore perceptual color and direct/ alla prima painting using both limited and prismatic palettes.

Multiple portrait models will offer daily (5 hour) and 2-day (10-hour) portrait poses over the 4 weeks.

The course will offer lecture-demonstrations and critique from one or both instructors 5 days per week.

FACULTY

The 2025 Spring in Paris – Portrait Studio will be taught in studio by founding faculty Timothy Stotz and Nicole Michelle Tully.

See our FACULTY page for instructor biographies and additional portfolio images.