Los Danzantes de Chalma, Fernando Leal, an example of work from the Mexican Muralist Movement, 1922
With strong artistic similarities to Alice Neel in figurative portraiture, Aliza Nisenbaum’s large scale angled figures lead the eye across the composition, and her sharp colors stay fresh, not overworked. Like Neel, Nisenbaum paints small areas of contrasting colors of yellow and purple, pink and green, next to each other to show the variety of skin tones in light and shadow.
“You have to pay close attention to the subtle nuance of every little character in their face, and colour is something that is very contingent. Everyone perceives it differently and it’s a myth that even within a particular race there’s a seamless colour. To me, that’s like a metaphor of how nuanced identity is. We’re very multifaceted in terms of our identities.” – Aliza Nisenbaum
Aliza Nisenbaum’s Portrait of an NHS Worker was painted from a zoom screen in 2020
Aliza Nisenbaum Team Time Storytelling, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, Covid Pandemic, 2020 Oil on canvas 95 x 150 inches
of a dull grayish-green or blue color. covered with a powdery bloom like that on grapes. Origin The glaucous effect can be achieved by putting a lighter semi-opaque glaze over a darker color. Zinc or lead white mixed with glazing medium can be effective. The effect is intensified if the darker layers are transparent pigments.
I’ve been teaching an expressive portraits class on Friday nights. In the first few classes we talked about common pitfalls including the blueberry pancake effect of features floating in the middle of a round face shape. We practiced how to measure proportions quickly, how to see the three dimensional aspects of a face, what makes …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9488″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] This is the third part of a multi day series, sharing work by my beginning figure drawing classes. Many of these students have never taken a drawing class before, nearly all of them are new to figure drawing. Rather than learning one style, we study a different approach every …
Day 27 of our 30 day January Creative Challenge was inadvertently a cruel one. Komorebi is a Japanese word for sunlight filtering through the trees. In Seattle, January 27th supplied artists with neither leaves nor sun. Somehow, these innovative artists found their ways.
Aliza Nisenbaum’s Labor Portraits
Los Danzantes de Chalma, Fernando Leal, an example of work from the Mexican Muralist Movement, 1922
With strong artistic similarities to Alice Neel in figurative portraiture, Aliza Nisenbaum’s large scale angled figures lead the eye across the composition, and her sharp colors stay fresh, not overworked. Like Neel, Nisenbaum paints small areas of contrasting colors of yellow and purple, pink and green, next to each other to show the variety of skin tones in light and shadow.
Aliza Nisenbaum’s Portrait of an NHS Worker was painted from a zoom screen in 2020
Aliza Nisenbaum Team Time Storytelling, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, Covid Pandemic, 2020 Oil on canvas 95 x 150 inches
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