In August I took a two-week portrait workshop in New York at Jacob Collins’ atelier, Grand Central Academy (GCA). The workshop was taught by Gregory Mortenson who does beautiful portrait work.
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Colleen Barry Figure Drawing Workshop
(Featured image: a charcoal drawing on tone paper by Colleen Barry.) I should have long ago stated that my contemporary hero artist is Colleen Barry. Her drawing above, and some more of her work below: This last image is in Juliette’s book Lessons on Classical Drawing, where I first saw Colleen’s work. She lives in…
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Three-Hour Portraits
I’ve mentioned a few times that I want to get better at drawing portraits this year. But how does one manage this when the first half of each day is devoted to painting the figure and the second half is all about still life?
Read MoreExperiencing Color with Pastel Pencils
Since most of year two at the atelier is grisaille painting (in black and white), I wont paint in color until about this time next year.
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