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Art for Middle School

How to Draw a Person’s Profile

Can you draw a square? Then, believe it or not, you can draw a realistic profile!

In this fun and interactive workshop taught by professional portrait artist, Kevin McEvoy, you will start with a simple square and finish with a realistic profile of your own creation to bring home. As you work, you will learn how simple geometric shapes can be used to create sophisticated works.

Art Middle School

Ages 11 – 13
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Cost:

$39/student
$10/parent audit

Date:

Thursday, June 6

Location:

TBD

Meet Kevin McEvoy
Kevin McEvoy grew up on Long Island, where his passion for art was ignited, and he began his earliest studies in drawing and painting by copying Albrecht Durer’s etchings from an encyclopedia and producing drawing copies of Greek and Roman statuary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

After high school, he studied in Valparaiso, Chile, and later enrolled at the prestigious, world-renowned Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, the oldest active atelier in Europe. After several years of training in classical drawing, painting, and art history, Kevin returned to Long Island, where he began his professional career in drawing and painting. With his works in collections from South America to California to Europe, Kevin enjoys connecting with collectors and clients of all backgrounds.

Kevin’s paintings draw on the classical methods he acquired in Florence and are applied to the world around him in a contemporary context. Interested in the sublime that is to be found in the mundane, his paintings speak to us in common terms, the poetry of everyday life.

Between drawing and painting, offering various art history lectures, teaching studio classes, and offering international education via his unique online art education programming, Kevin enjoys sailing with his wife and three boys in their hometown of Islip and tending to their seventeen chickens.

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