Adam Rodgers, a specialist in creative portraiture, starts you with the fundamentals, then continues on to the next level, where your own ideas and emotions can transform the ordinary into the exceptional.

Rodgers makes sure you are familiar with the key elements that any good portrait should have, including a mastery of proportion, head structure, and value. Building on that solid foundation, he will use critiques, lectures, and class discussions, to encourage you to try new techniques and stylistic experiments. In his own work, Rodgers incorporates a huge variety of materials and tools, deploying everything from dried moths to printed circuit boards, in the service of bringing out the unique personal qualities of his subjects.

By the end of the class, you will have gained a new understanding of how such an approach, not confined to what is traditionally thought of as “correct”, can achieve both convincing realism and expressive freedom.