Sunshine Place launches a seven-session workshop on Fundamentals of Drawing in collaboration with Filipino contemporary artist Jucar Raquepo from March 1 until April 12.
The workshop, which is open to 12 years old and older, will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 12 noon every Saturday.
The workshop is beginner-friendly and introduces fundamental techniques through several structured and guided exercises.
Through these exercises, participants will develop a keen sense of observation and improve their ability to capture shapes and forms with precision.
As the sessions progress, students will focus on drawing individual facial features—lips, eyes, nose, and ears—before assembling them into a complete head. Step by step, they will build their understanding of structure, perspective, and proportion, leading to more lifelike and expressive portraits. By the end of the course, participants will have a strong grasp of the fundamentals, setting a solid foundation for more advanced portrait drawing techniques.
Artist Jucar Raquepo has worked across different artistic disciplines such as painting, installation, assemblage, and video art over the last 20 years. His paintings have been defined by pictorial experimentation, with imagery that references and even questions art, composition, art history, popular culture, politics, society, contemporary art, the spiritual, history, and time.
He has conducted art workshops as part of his residency program in Incheon, South Korea, and in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He has participated in group exhibitions in Manila, Canada, Berlin, Hamburg, New York, Seoul, Incheon, and Hong Kong and has mounted several solo shows in Manila.
He was granted the Casa San Miguel residency, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea’s Changdong artist residency program, The Gate Project residency of Incheon Arts Foundation, and the Artshealth North residency under Ontario Arts Council. He was also a recipient of grants from the NCCA.
