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.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Custom portraits, work in Progress: commission a portrait



This has been a delightful painting to work on. I was pleased at the progress after my first painting session and look forward to continuing on with this piece soon.