Nelson Ferreira, a renowned Portuguese drawing specialist who teaches drawing to Walt Disney artists, will conduct a two-day workshop on the classical Bargue drawing style. This style was the most important drawing style of the 19th century and is known for its accurate proportions.
The workshop is open to all KAUST community members who want to learn how to draw accurately by eye. Nelson Ferreira has previously conducted popular workshops during Wellbeing Week, and this workshop promises to be just as informative and engaging.
The Bargue Course is a complete classical drawing course that some of the most accomplished artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Vincent Van Gogh, took. The entire course takes 30 hours, but on Sunday, May 26, Nelson offers a short 3-hour introduction that will give a deep insight into the fundamentals of classical drawing techniques.
Those who have already attended level 1 are welcome to move on to the templates for level 2 by attending the May 27 session.
Dates: Sunday, May 26 (Level 1) and Monday, May 27 (Levels 2)
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Location: Community Life Hub
Ages: 15+
Cost: 200 SAR per person per course – payments should be made in cash on the night of the course.
Nelson Ferreira is a professional painter specializing in the 15th-century Primitive Flemish methodologies of Painting and 19th-century Academic drawing and painting techniques.
In the United Kingdom, he is a visiting lecturer for the National Portrait Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Chiswick Business Park (Paramount Pictures, Discovery Channel etc.), amongst others. He is also the first international visiting lecturer for Indonesia’s state university (Universitas Negeri Jakarta and Malang). He also taught drawing and painting at the Islamic University of Malang (AmCor of Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang), Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, Art Institute of the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal’s National Gallery of Ancient Art etc.
In 2022, he was invited to be the first artist in residence at the sculpture garden of Portugal’s National Museum of Contemporary Art, the world’s first national museum of contemporary art (since 1911). This year, Nelson had several solo exhibitions in Lisbon, Porto, Batalha and Cascais, which attracted over 200,000 visitors.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at community.events@kaust.edu.sa.
We look forward to seeing you at our future events and programs.
