Mashiul Chowdhury

Bio

 

Mashiul Chowdhury is a Philadelphia-based artist and an alumnus of Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts (PAFA). He is also in the faculty of several art institutes in Philadelphia Including Penn Studio School of Art.

Mashiul Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He grew up and went to medical school in Bangladesh and immigrated to the US in his late 20s. Mashiul started to attend alumni figure drawing session at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (PAFA) in 2002.

 

Mashiul’s work has won multiple awards including Best Landscape Award n 2014 at the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He won second place at “In-Person” show for his figure drawing in a national competition in 2018. In 2022, he was one of the winners of “Strokes of Genius” special edition of Artist Magazine in USA. His work is in the permanent collections of the Capital One Corporate Center in Wilmington, Delaware, Cancer Treatment Center of America and the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

 

Mashiul exhibited his works in at least 10 solo show since 2009.

 

Expressive Figure Drawing Workshop

 

Learn how to draw figure, how to make expressive drawing by participating in this 2-day intense workshop with Mashiul Chowdhury.  Students will have an opportunity to learn from short dynamic gestural poses to long poses of a life model.

This course will teach practical information about proportion, skeletal structure, muscle groups, and their relation to surface features of the body; proportional relationships of the human form, and the body in perspective. Participants will draw from photo references and life model and progress from quick gestural sketches to longer tonal studies with charcoal and pastel on toned paper to develop three-dimensional form.  This workshop is for all levels.

Day 1:

Slide presentation on history and fundamentals of figure drawing. Warm up exercises. Practice of gesture and contour drawing and demo from life model.

Day 2:

Critique session on gesture drawing.

Draw from long poses of a model.

Practice from photo references.

Drawing Materials

· Charcoal (available at dickblick.com and/or jerrysartarama.com):

Winsor&Newton Artists Vine Charcoal: Medium & hard

Blick Studio Willow Charcoal: medium & hard

Grumbacher Vine Charcoal : medium & hard

· White Chalk/Charcoal: General’s compressed white charcoal

· Rembrandt soft pastels

· Paper:

White drawing paper pad,18”x24”

Newsprint pad,18”x24” ( optional )

Hahnemuhle Ingres any color ( optional )(available at dickblick.com)

Canson drawing paper18”x24”

Drawing Board : 26x22 in