2025 SPRING in PARIS / PORTRAIT STUDIO (MORNING SESSION)

“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 (Morning Session) will offer drawing and painting the portrait from life in our new Spring Program Studio in Montparnasse. Please see our Facilities page for details on the location.
CLASS DATES:	The program will meet as follows: Monday, 5 May – Friday, 30 May 2025 (4 weeks)
CLASS SCHEDULE:	Drawing and painting the portrait from life 17.5 hrs/week (mornings only 9:30-13:00, 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 new Spring Program Studio in Montparnasse.
TUITION PRICE:	2400 EUR Cost of housing in Paris not included. Students required to find and contract their own housing in Paris.
APPLICATION DEADLINE:	FRIDAY, 3 JANUARY 2025
ADMISSIONS DECISIONS RETURNED:	SUNDAY, 5 JANUARY 2025
TUITION PAYMENT DUE:	SATURDAY, 11 JANUARY 2025
HOW to APPLY:	Admissions for 2025 SPRING in PARIS – PORTRAIT STUDIO (MORNING SESSION) are OPEN. Please review the ADMISSIONS page for general information about the application process. Desktop and laptop users can apply ONLINE. 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 ( Morning Session)”

Our Spring in Paris – Portrait Studio is a special program that offers a unique curriculum of drawing & painting from life in our new Spring Program Studio in Montparnasse, 17,5 hrs/week (mornings only, 9:30-13:00, Monday to Friday).

2025 Spring in Paris – Portrait Studio (Morning Session) will be taught by Timothy STOTZ and Nicole Michelle TULLY. The course will offer lecture-demonstrations and critique in studio from one or both instructors 5 days per week.

The course will offer 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.

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 (3,5 hour) and 2-day (7-hour) portrait poses over the 4 weeks.

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.