[image_with_animation image_url=”8694″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This spring, my Friday nights are going to be in an Unconventional Portraits class. These Friday night classes have become my night to do whatever I think would be the most fun thing to do. This quarter I got most excited thinking about Unconventional Portraits.
This is not a realist class with look-a-like portraiture. It’s a series of creative ideas and experiments; a mix of unexpected drawing and painting techniques intended to produce unconventional results. We will look at unconventional portraits made by other artists, and be have a wide variety of stylistic inspirations for our work. Focus will be on manipulating source materials, and on using mediums and surfaces that allow for and encourage those not-so-accidental happy accidents. We will work from a combination of self portraits, photographs, and live models.
This unconventional portraits class lets students choose their own level of difficulty: brave beginners are invited to draw using forgiving materials such as graphite, ink, and charcoal. Intermediate students are invited to draw or paint with their chosen mediums (oil, watercolor, ink, & acrylic).
Click here to learn more about my Unconventional Portraits Class.
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[image_with_animation image_url=”7537″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Look around you. If you were a travel agency, hoping to entice someone to this place, what would you put on the postcard? Draw, …
Unconventional Portraits
[image_with_animation image_url=”8694″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This spring, my Friday nights are going to be in an Unconventional Portraits class. These Friday night classes have become my night to do whatever I think would be the most fun thing to do. This quarter I got most excited thinking about Unconventional Portraits.
This is not a realist class with look-a-like portraiture. It’s a series of creative ideas and experiments; a mix of unexpected drawing and painting techniques intended to produce unconventional results. We will look at unconventional portraits made by other artists, and be have a wide variety of stylistic inspirations for our work. Focus will be on manipulating source materials, and on using mediums and surfaces that allow for and encourage those not-so-accidental happy accidents. We will work from a combination of self portraits, photographs, and live models.
This unconventional portraits class lets students choose their own level of difficulty: brave beginners are invited to draw using forgiving materials such as graphite, ink, and charcoal. Intermediate students are invited to draw or paint with their chosen mediums (oil, watercolor, ink, & acrylic).
Click here to learn more about my Unconventional Portraits Class.
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