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Figure Drawing Classes Miami | Live Model Sessions | MIFA
Master the Human Form: Live Figure Drawing & Painting miami
Draw and paint from a live model, every Saturday in Miami.
Saturdays · 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Live model session · 1:00–4:00 PM
Limited easels available each week — reserve your spot.
HALF DAY REGISTRATION
HALF DAY REGISTRATION
HALF DAY REGISTRATION
Perfect for getting started. Join a long-pose figure drawing or painting session and build your foundation — from accurate proportion to your first grisaille study.
Fee: $275/month
FULL DAY REGISTRATION
HALF DAY REGISTRATION
HALF DAY REGISTRATION
For the dedicated artist. Spend the full day immersed in figure work — from drawing fundamentals to advanced color rendering, glazing, and paint handling techniques.
Fee: $495/month
Drawing and Painting from Life
From Your First Line to a Finished Portrait
Every master painter started with the same first step: learning to see. In this program, you'll follow the same path used in the great ateliers of Europe.
You'll begin with linear drawing (block-in) — training your eye to measure proportion and structure with precision. From there, you'll move into form rendering, learning how light defines volume. Next comes grisaille painting, where you strip away color to master value and shadow. Finally, you'll bring it all together in full-color portrait painting — combining hue, value, and chroma to create a living, breathing likeness.
Advanced students go further still, exploring underpainting, glazing, mediums, and scumbling — the techniques that separate a good painting from a masterful one.From Your First Line to a Finished Portrait
Every master painter started with the same first step: learning to see. In this program, you'll follow the same path used in the great ateliers of Europe.
You'll begin with linear drawing (block-in) — training your eye to measure proportion and structure with precision. From there, you'll move into form rendering, learning how light defines volume. Next comes grisaille painting, where you strip away color to master value and shadow. Finally, you'll bring it all together in full-color portrait painting — combining hue, value, and chroma to create a living, breathing likeness.
Advanced students go further still, exploring underpainting, glazing, mediums, and scumbling — the techniques that separate a good painting from a masterful one.
INSTRUCTOR
CARLOS LOPEZ
Carlos Lopez trained for five years at the Grand Central Academy of Art, mastering traditional drawing and painting technique. In 2015, he received a top prize from the Portrait Society of America. After fourteen years in New York City, he returned to Miami to found First Line Atelier, where he teaches classical drawing and painting.