Prasong Kantanee

Prasong Kantanee
Born in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Education: B.A. in Business Administration at Strayer University, Washington DC, USA

Although my academic study had nothing to do with Arts, my main interest in life has always been about Arts. Illustrating my imagination on paper and canvas as drawings or paintings has been my obsession. Ever since I was young I found myself drawing human bodies and a few times I got even caught in class during lecture by my teachers. Of course, they made fun of me since I drew mostly naked bodies, but that did not stop my passion for Arts at all.


Later I finally got the chance of taking a summer class of Intensive Figure Drawing with live nude models at the National Cathedral of Washington DC. It was not really a class about teaching how to draw, but more of letting us draw and then share the result with our class mates. Doing this we could learn how the same object can be interpreted on paper in many ways by different artists and different styles of drawings, some more abstract, some more realistic. It was the first time in my life that I had the chance to draw live models. It was rather interesting for me to discover that live models give a much better perspective for the drawing of the ...