Portrait Painting Demonstration this Sunday, March 11th at Kidcasso

I will be doing a 2-hour Portrait Painting Demo this Sunday at Kidcasso Art Studio which is located on Albion Street in Wakefield, MA.  There is a minimal $2 fee to cover studio costs. 

The demo will be an underpainting done if burnt umber or burnt sienna.  The main idea of this demonstration is to share my thought process as I paint my portraits.  I will discuss how to sketch in the features, how to shapes instead of painting parts of the face, how to paint values and their importance, getting a likeness and how to paint individual parts of the face.  I will also have a brief discussion on the Zorn palette and how you use it to simplify your painting.

Abbey Ryan's Online Painting Demo

I was able to watch Abbey Ryan's online painting demo last week and was very cool.  I love watching how other artists work a painting.  You can view this demo and others by visiting her web blog:  http://ryanstudio.blogspot.com/ and you can also visit her main site: http://www.abbeyryan.com/. 

Abbey paints in a "alla prima" or all-at-once style which is the process of painting a painting directly onto the canvas and usually in one sitting.  Her painting style was handed down by her teacher, David Leffel at the Art Students League.

Abbey sometimes includes these magnificent bottles in her paintings that are equally beautiful, you can view on the Jury Smith Bottle Shop site:  http://shop.jurysmith.com/