This one-week workshop offers students the opportunity to intensively study the expressive mechanics of the human face with the master instructor and authority, Gary Faigin.

A completely hands-on structure maximizes the learning experience. Each student works at their own station, where they are provided with a drawing materials, a plastic skull, modeling clay, and a mirror set up next to an easel. The week begins with an introduction to the structures that underlay the facial expressions, and a drawing of the partipant's own face with the skull drawn in relation underneath.

Next, students model in clay the key facial muscles which together create the various expressions, placing the muscles one at a time on their plastic skull and then drawing the muscles in action on their own face, using the provided mirrors to produce both front and side views.

Finally, participants learn the six key categories of emotion and how to pose and draw them, first on their own face, and then on the face of a specially-trained model. The class also looks at cartoons, master paintings, and other artistic depictions of the face in action.

By week's end, students are well on their way to a mastery of this fascinating and challenging subject, taking home their expression notebook as well as their completed clay-model muscular skull.

• DAY ONE: Facial Expression overview/ The structures of the skull/ Finding the skull under the face / The features at rest
• DAY TWO: The Muscles of Expression: The forehead; The Muscles of Expression: The eyes
• DAY THREE: The Muscles of Expression: The Mouth/ Putting the elements together - the 6 Emotion Categories
• DAY FOUR: Drawing the emotional expressions: Front/Profile views/ Creating the expression notebook/ Using self as model/ Intensity controls - what they are, and how to use them in depiction
• DAY FIVE: Putting it all together: An all-day posing session with a professional actress/ Final Critique/ Summary/ Identifying targets for further study