3 days until registration opens for Portraits in the Raw. This workshop will be hosted by Hunter Moon Homestead. Get on the first to know list to register.
A simple line leads to the beauty and capture of a portrait. Loose lines of charcoal that skips across the paper, ink that drips from a brush, the stroke of paint that will represent your own reflection or the form of clay that will bring a portrait to life. The study of portraiture for me is less about representation and more about capturing. The capture can be found in your own reflection, the glance from a stranger, magazine pages, stills from a movie, newspaper clippings, torn book pages or old polaroids. Nothing is off limits and the process is more about being open to what inspires to create.
Contour sketching, ink, paper, collage and paint will be our guide as we explore portraits in the raw. Through layers, ink, charcoal and plaster, we will create a volume of work that embraces experimentation and play.
We will begin with learning how to create an armature and then create a small clay sculpture. We will then use reference images to create quick studies by contour sketching the faces that inspire us on paper, raw canvas and vellum. Using our studies we will begin creating portraits on paper with charcoal, graphite and ink. Some works we will tear up and use in our collage and paint pieces. You will leave with work in clay, a small hand stitched book with your sketches, and portrait work on paper and raw canvas.
