Portraiture
Workshops | Available
Capturing the likeness of a human being is stunning and one of the most classical subject matters throughout time. There is nothing more inspiring than da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Renoir’s beautiful portraits of the Parisian women or John Singer Sargent’s Madame X. This workshop develops geometry and proportion of the human face and how one capture’s the likeness of their subject matter. Beginning with charcoal we develop basic skills and techniques, breaking down the proportion of the human head by the placement of the eyes to the nose then the mouth in perspective. The students translate what they see by developing the portrait through techniques of shading, coloring and modeling using drawing tools first in black and white and gradually introducing color. With each drawing tool – charcoal, conte crayon and pastels – the instructor will give a demonstration of drawing one of the students.
- A cash fee will be collected from all enrolled students at the beginning of the workshop based on the model's sitting fee and the final number of students enrolled in the workshop.
If you have a certain portrait you want to do, please bring a photo, otherwise we will begin by drawing each other, then advance to drawing from the masters.
One – 18” X 24” newsprint drawing pad
One - Charcoal/Pastel drawing pad 18” X 24”
One of each: charcoal soft, charcoal medium and charcoal hard leads
One set of conte crayons: terracotta, black, brown, white & grey
One beginner set of 48 soft pastels (+art grade quality)
Any questions? Please contact me directly: tjartinc@gmail.com
Vicky Tesmer
Celebrated American artist, Vicky Tesmer, is a practicing professional artist from Chicago. Her work can be seen in collections throughout America, Paris, Egypt and Germany. She is represented by Artfully Walls, Anthropologie and has exhibited throughout Chicago. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied in Versallies, France where she learned techniques of the Renaissance Masters and was classically trained. Her murals and interiors can be seen in countless interiors.
Please visit: www.vickytesmer.com