Showing posts with label Boston portrait painter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston portrait painter. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2015

Best Portrait Artists: Learning from the Best





Thinking back as I work on some new children's commissions as to how indebted I am to Connie Pratt, Constance Flavell Pratt, who used to teach on the Cape for weeklong classes. I regard her workshops to be where I learned the most in terms of personal study of the face and finding ways to capture the nuances of planes and values.

Above is a photo of her from a meet and greet art occasion and of me painting from the model in about 2002.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Cutom Portraits: the next family portrait in the works



I had a wonderful visit today with a family for a sitting for a new custom portrait and I'm now ready to paint their 4 year old son. It does not seem like a year and a half since painting their oldest daughter, who was in kindergarten during my visit, so I did not get to see her. Here is her painting hanging in their home. To see this painting more clearly than this quick iPhone photo, please go to: http://www.soniahale.com/#!Maisie/zoom/c22q3/image17rv