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Portraiture Workshop
Week-End (#2)
taught by Portrait Artist, Patricia Chandler |
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Where: |
DownStage at L/A Arts
(Canal St. Alley, off of Pine St, Lewiston, Maine) |
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When: |
March 20 & 21, 2010 (Saturday / Sunday) |
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Times: |
9
am - 4 pm (both days) |
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$120 |
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Description
Schedule
Materials Needed
About the Instructor
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Description
This second
Portraiture Workshop at The DownStage, given by painter Pat
Chandler, will continue where the first workshop left off in
February. Full color pastel portraits will be taught this time, with
studio work and demonstrations on Saturday and a model all day on
Sunday. Appropriate for beginners as well, with the study of the
skull and methods of rendering features taught on Saturday. Learning
to mix fresh flesh tones makes this class a good lead-in to any
other painting medium for portraits. This course is suitable for both beginners and people with
some drawing or portraiture experience. Students need not have
attended the first workshop in order to register for this workshop.
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This two-day, 12-hour study of portraiture will begin with a review
of the underlying structure of the head. The skull will be available
for people to familiarize themselves with it again or for the first
time, reviewing the form, the proportions and the exact structure.
First time students will do the self-portrait on tracing paper over
a front or ¾-view skull drawing that they have made, fitting the
features correctly over the skull. Other students will practice
drawing each other in soft tones of sepia and white. In the
afternoon I will demonstrate the rendering of facial features, then
mixing flesh tones with pastels. Shadow tones and highlight tones
will be shown. The first day will end with practicing rendering
facial features with pastels. If time permits, self portraits can be
done using full color. |
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On Sunday, we
will work from a model, first doing a soft drawing using sepia and
white on toned paper. Over these drawings the full color will be
applied. Throughout both days there will be as much individual
attention as time permits. Sunday will end with a discussion of what
students have accomplished.
The course is
suitable both for beginners and for people with some experience with
drawing and/or portraiture.
This workshop requires a minimum number of students
to sign on
and is restricted to a maximum of 15.
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Schedule
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Saturday |
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9 - noon |
Study
and/or review of the skull. Self portraits or drawings of each
other in sepia and white. |
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Noon - 1 |
Lunch |
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1 - 3:30 |
Demonstration of technique for rendering features. Using
pastels properly and mixing flesh tones, shadow tone and highlights.
Practice drawing individual features and putting it all together in
a self-portrait. Preparations for Sunday’s class. |
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3:30 - 4 |
Critique,
discussion, if time. |
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Sunday |
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9 - noon |
Drawing
the model in sepia and white on medium-toned paper, then proceeding
to pastel full color portrait. |
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Noon - 1 |
Lunch |
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1 - 3:30 |
Finishing the pastel painting. Attention to details of features,
expression, techniques, corrections.
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3:30 - 4 |
Critique, discussion |
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Several sheets of Canson Mi Teintes
“Moonstone” or medium grey or tan colored paper
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White and sepia pastels or pastel pencils
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Erasers: Pink Pearl, Artgum, Kneaded.
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Set of pastels, preferably medium
softness.
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Small set of Nupastels for details.
(Pat will bring a few
boxes of her old pastels in all colors for people to use.)
About the Instructor:
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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 |
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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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The DownStage Development Initiative
is supported by:
The Davis Family Foundation & Empower Lewiston
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