Here’s a little video explaining why Expressive Portraits is my favorite online art class at the Seattle Artist League.
Last quarter, participants studied how to sketch a face quickly, and how to add expressive descriptions of what makes a face not just accurate, but interesting. We looked at portraits by Alice Neel, Rembrandt, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, and we were also inspired by each other’s drawings! Special thanks to League artists Mimi Tochia Boothby, Alex Walker, Anne Walker, Georgia Ward-Collings, Alexia Cameron, and Katie-Jo Keppinger for sharing their portraits.
The next Friday night Expressive Portraits (in COLOR!) class starts June 26, 2020. You can join us from anywhere in the world! (Including the same room you’ve been sitting in for the last three months.) Click here to learn more.
Learn anywhere. Make anywhere. League where you are.
Raphael Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists’ studios of New York City. He also wrote several books on his life and art. He was adamant in his …
In the interview below, you’ll also see mention of “Ekphrasis.” In the days where each Thursday painter gave a brief presentation to the class, Skillman inspired us all with her presentation about ekphrastic poetry – a poem based on a work of art. In an ekphrastic poem, the writer describes the work of art, and may …
Frohsin is another painter on the list of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. He had talked about wanting to develop his work into more flat color fields, a move towards the abstract. These paintings by Frohsin and others are his inspirations. I liked these abstracted figures so much I did some research and found more of …
Why Expressive Portraits is my favorite online art class
Here’s a little video explaining why Expressive Portraits is my favorite online art class at the Seattle Artist League.
Last quarter, participants studied how to sketch a face quickly, and how to add expressive descriptions of what makes a face not just accurate, but interesting. We looked at portraits by Alice Neel, Rembrandt, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, and we were also inspired by each other’s drawings! Special thanks to League artists Mimi Tochia Boothby, Alex Walker, Anne Walker, Georgia Ward-Collings, Alexia Cameron, and Katie-Jo Keppinger for sharing their portraits.
The next Friday night Expressive Portraits (in COLOR!) class starts June 26, 2020. You can join us from anywhere in the world! (Including the same room you’ve been sitting in for the last three months.) Click here to learn more.
Learn anywhere. Make anywhere. League where you are.
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In the interview below, you’ll also see mention of “Ekphrasis.” In the days where each Thursday painter gave a brief presentation to the class, Skillman inspired us all with her presentation about ekphrastic poetry – a poem based on a work of art. In an ekphrastic poem, the writer describes the work of art, and may …
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