Beginning Portrait Drawing Item # 7153 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Sessions: 8 Saturdays
  Location: On campus AS 1627 01/09/2010 - 02/27/2010
Introduction  A short description & demonstration sample of the class

CLASS LINKS:
class 1
syllabus
materials list


"Ink Wash Muse" stages demo



"Chuck" click for drawing stages

Homework:
drawing from photo

This class explores the major themes in portrait drawing, from 'vine charcoal gesture drawing' to 'full color Conte drawing'

We will explore ways to preserve and develop highlight whites, as well as how to create a living black, and the best most effective color combinations used to create shadow. Live model subjects will be provided & we will end the class series with a self-portrait or optional subject drawing taken from contemporary sources.

Leave the class with comfortable advanced skills and feel ready to take on any portrait drawing project

Begin by giving yourself permission to explore. We all learn by exploration. Fill your sketchbook with projects, pieced samples, & visual ideas.

 

PORTRAIT DRAWING sequence progression:Gesture,Contour, Weighted Line, Value,Detail

This class will focus on the: tools, materials & techniques specific to portrait drawing.

While it is the major motivation in portraiture. 'accurate image making' is not the entire point. Real images or subjects are not guides for our work, they are only excuses to do the image making. The drawing is the primary motivating force, taking liberties is expected. Each time, ask "does this benefit the finished drawing?" The drawing is the point, attaining a likeness is the excuse.
Process & Imposed Forms
(Initial class subjects)
  

Paper types &, materials choices, making your own, punching up color. Contemporary portrait techniques, pure color, mixed media, playing with color, palettes, boards and storage. Match materials to the subject.

"Self-portrait" click for animation stages

In the class, I would like you to produce two kinds of homework: a drawing outside of class, and other sketches in the sketchbook. Try to do the drawings and sketches every two or three days to develop your eye-hand coordination – rather than doing them all at once. Someone who draws every day or two will accrue twice the benefit of the person who does the drawing at the last minute before class.

Homework for the first class- As your first homework, I want you to produce a portrait to act as a reference, or starting point – a base line of comparison: taken from available subject matter (photos or web images). We may show them later in class next week if you wish, but they are for your reference.
Footnotes

5 Art Material suppliers:

* An additional demo on available paper

1.Artist and Craftsman Supply, 4350 8th AV NE, 545-0091, reasonable prices, carries M.Graham watercolor paints (inexpensive). Gives a 10% discount to students who show their supply list
2.Dakota Art Store, Roosevelt Way NE 523-4830. After you spend $50, you get a discount or rebate.
3.Daniel Smith, 4150 1st Ave. S, 223-9599, manufactures their own paints, good quality, gives good discount (10%) to registered students
4.University Bookstore, 4326 University WY NE, 634-3400
5.Utrecht, corner of Pike and Minor, Capitol Hill, 382-9696, reasonable prices, good price on Arches watercolor blocks, brushes and sketchbooks
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ONLINE SUPPLIERS:
http://www.dickblick.com/
http://www.cheapjoes.com/
http://www.misterart.com/index.cfm
http://www.danielsmith.com/
http://www.utrechtart.com/

Bibliography

Dick BlickPrinceton WC brush sets 4-6 brushes $4.39 to $8.79

"42 Portraits" by John Singer Sargent
"Splash" series watercolor collection books
"Master Class in Watermedia: Techniques in Traditional and Experimental Painting" by Edward Betts
  Links: for class notes www.jonraderjarvis.com/classes.htm and email contact address jrj@jonraderjarvis.com
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