Portraiture Workshop
Week-End
taught by Portrait Artist, Patricia Chandler

Where:	DownStage at L/A Arts (Canal St. Alley, off of Pine St, Lewiston, Maine)
When:	Feb. 6 & 7, 2010 (Saturday / Sunday)
Times:	9:30 am - 5 pm (both days)
Fee:	$120

Description Schedule Materials Needed About the Instructor

Description

Pat has taught similar workshops at MeCA, (Maine College of Art) with great success. This course is suitable for both beginners and people with some drawing or portraiture experience.

This two-day, 12-hour study of portraiture will begin with a study of the underlying structure that the face covers, i.e., the skull. The students will do many drawings from a real human skull, learning the form, the proportions and the exact structure. This is the most important part of the study, being the form on which, and

into which, everything else is fitted. A self portrait will be done on tracing paper over a front or ¾-view skull drawing that has been drawn, fitting the features correctly over the skull drawing. The first day will end with the study of facial features individually. The instructor will give demonstrations of technique and students will practice drawing each of the facial features: eyes, nose and mouth.

On the second day, students will work from a model, doing charcoal drawings first and then working with sepia and white pastel pencils or conté crayons on toned paper. Throughout both days there will be as much individual attention as time permits. Each day will end with a discussion of what students have accomplished.

This workshop requires a minimum number of students to sign on and is restricted to a maximum of 15.

Schedule

Saturday
9 - noon	Study of the skull: structure, proportions and how facial features fit the skull
Noon - 1	Lunch
1 - 3:30	Demonstration of technique for rendering features. Preparations for Sunday’s class.
3:30 - 4	Critique, discussion

Sunday
9 - noon	Drawing the model in sepia and white on medium-toned paper (quick studies, then the beginning of a finished drawing.)
Noon - 1	Lunch
1 - 3:30	Finishing the drawing. Attention to details of features, techniques, corrections, and expression.
3:30 - 4	Critique, discussion

Materials Needed:

First day: a drawing pad and 3-B drawing pencils or charcoal pencils. A mirror and tracing paper.

Second day: 2 sheets of Canson Mi Teintes “Moonstone” or tan colored paper, white and sepia pastel pencils or conté sticks (or both the pencils and the sticks) and erasers.

About the Instructor:

Pat was born and grew up in Maine. She received her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. After several years of working in the commercial field, she and her family moved to Minnesota, where she resumed an interest in Printmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

At that time Pat began to devote her time to fine art again. Portraits replaced commercial art as the means by which she supported herself and three children. Moving her family back to the Mid-coast region of Maine in the early 1970’s, her portrait clientele grew to include people throughout the United States as her work became known among the summer residents.

She states, "I have been doing portraiture professionally since the late 1950's. During that career, I have continually sought to learn and to improve my technical skill, while keeping to a traditional approach. Portraiture is one of the most ancient of artistic forms. We seek to honor and remember those we love with images of them. These images then become family heirlooms. For those reasons and others, I approach each and every portrait with great seriousness and respect. I regard it as a tribute that I have now done commissioned portraits of two and three generations in some families. The ongoing relationships with these families is one of my greatest rewards."

Learn more about Pat online at www.chandlerfineart.com or contact Pat with any questions: (207) 743-8033 pat@chandlerfineart.com

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