8 Week Intro to Academic Figure Summer2026
In-Person Workshop | Available
In this 8 week class, students will be using the comparative measurement will will learn to draw from the ground up working directly from live nude figure model in a controlled light studio. No experience necessary.
If you do have experience but are looking for a more reliable and repeatable approach to better accuracy and visual problem solving skills, this class is also for you.
This class is great for people who work full time or just want to try out a new way to approach drawing. You'll be working on the same type of project that our main program starts with but with a little extra attention and guidance. After this class, you can continue the next term with the same class and continue your projects, or move into the main program classes seamlessly.
You can also take this class as an additional figure class if you are in the main program.
John Asimacopoulos
John Asimacopoulos started as a student at the Academy of Realist Art Boston in September 2015, after making the decision to switch from a medical career to pursue an artistic one. His studies did not go to waste though, as they gave him knowledge, and appreciation of the human body, especially through his study of anatomy, which included dissection. John applied what he learned, and started teaching artistic anatomy, and figure drawing at the school in 2018. He graduated from the school in 2021.
He has won numerous awards, including two Art Renewal Center scholarships in 2017, and 2019, the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship Fund in 2017, the Head Start Student Competition in 2017, and second place in the Richeson Still Life & Floral Competition in 2021. He has been involved in group shows at Bowersock Gallery in Provincetown, and the Portsmouth Music and Arts Center. He has also juried for the 3rd Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition in 2021.
He is currently working on a series of narrative paintings exploring the theme of transformation.
You can find his work on Instagram here