“Constructive Portrait Drawing”

March 30 - April 2, 2025
9:30 am to 4:00 pm each day

This workshop is crafted to provide a comprehensive yet accessible experience for artists of all levels, whether you are a beginner looking to explore your creative potential or an experienced artist seeking to refine your portrait drawing techniques. This workshop is designed to meet you where you are on your artistic journey. It offers you a unique opportunity to learn from the artist himself. Oliver's expertise and passion for teaching will guide you through the process of creating stunning expressive portrait drawings. This workshop will help you delve into the fundamentals of drawing portraits, focusing on essential knowledge of shapes, planes of heads, anatomy, value rendering, and more through engaging exercises and step-by-step demonstrations from life models. Students will learn the techniques of mastering expressive portrait drawings with vine charcoal and charcoal pencils on drawing papers. 

One of the highlights of this workshop is the chance to receive personalized feedback and guidance from Oliver. He has over 23 years of professional teaching experience at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. With his keen eye and constructive critique, you will have the opportunity to refine your portrait drawing skills and elevate your skills to new heights. Let‘s embark on a journey of creativity, self-discovery and unlock the artist within you. 

Registration is $750.
Payment can be sent via check to our studio at:
GACA, 4814 Washington Blvd, Suite 322, St. Louis, MO. 63108
or you can use Zelle with our email: gacastudio.info@gmail.com

Workshops take place in the GACA’s studio, located in the Pierce Arrow Building,
4814 Washington Blvd, Suite 230, St. Louis, MO. 63108

REGISTRATION
For more information on Oliver Sin, please visit:
 https://www.instagram.com/oliversin/

OLIVER SIN BIOGRAPHY

Oliver Sin is an alumnus of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, with a BFA in Illustration. Right after Oliver graduated in 1996, he started his art career as a computer game concept artist at LucasArts. Since 2001 until now, Oliver has returned to his school to be an art professor for the School of Fine Arts and 2D Animation. Oliver has been so drawn to art even as a little boy, started drawing at the age of 3. Somehow, portraiture just seems to be his favorite form of expression which he constantly practices, not only as an art professor but as a favorite hobby as well. Oliver's first art book, “Drawing the Head for Artists” is published in 2019, hereafter, the Spanish, Dutch, and German versions become available in 2020. Oliver's first educational step-by-step DVD, "Portrait Drawing Simplified" was published by Streamline Publishing in April 2022. Two of Oliver's portraits were commissioned and featured on the cover of Time Magazine as part of their "100 Women of the Year" project, March 2020 issue, see attachment. Oliver's vine charcoal portrait drawing of his dad won First Place in Drawing at the Portrait Society of America International Art Competition in 2021. For consistent achievements of artistic excellence in the art field of fine art portraiture, Oliver has earned "Signature Status" with the Portrait Society of America in 2022.

Samples of art can be viewed at: https://www.instagram.com/oliversin/

Materials List. TBD