Charcoal Portraits Week 4: Quality of the Light
You sit down to draw a portrait. Your model is sitting in front of you, and you’ve chosen a nice angle about forty-five degrees to her left. You’ve got paper, charcoal, erasers, blending stumps, a cup of tea, etc., and the next two-three hours at your disposal. All your ducks are in a row, and…
Charcoal Portraits Week 3: Accuracy of the Drawing
Ironically, the last blog post I made (What’s in a Face?) was all about the powerful meaning I find in drawing someone’s portrait. I say ironically, because the next several blog posts I make will be ALL about portraits! I’m in a Life Drawing/Plein Air Painting class in graduate school, and we are spending several weeks…
What’s in a Face?
Recently, I finished the most marvelous book my roommate gave me called Theo of Golden by Allen Levi. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend. It’s a beautiful story about a generous old man who moves to a small town in Georgia, called Golden, and decides to gift a whole gallery of portraits to…
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