[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.
The chicken paintings featured in this V-Note are by Endre Penovác. The chicken letter that follows was written in 1870, sent to the Poultry Society. The title proclaims it’s a manual about how to raise fine poultry. The content, however, renders itself informational for how to steal birds from your neighbor (or yourself, if you’re an idiot). It was signed by …
Stuart Shils in Conversation With Nikolai Fox April 6, 2012 By Larry 14 Comments Stuart Shils End of a Sumer Day, Last Blast of Warm Light, Looking Back, 30×42 inches click here for a larger view Stuart Shils in Conversation With Nikolai Fox March 2012, in advance of an exhibition at steven harvey fine …
Some Pretty Paintings; a collection of flowers and figures in paintings and prints I buy myself flowers because they make me happy. They are colorful and fragrant, and have no purpose other than my enjoyment. As temporal sculptures, flowers mark time by dropping petals, and are to be enjoyed without procrastination. No matter how busy …
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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