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Year III Semester I: Portrait Anatomy and Drawing
Take your portraiture to a new level! Using Graphite learn how to build from a skull, to muscles to facial expression a likeness. End the semester drawing a self portrait. The have some fun drawing caricatures and designing a Christmas Card in the tradition of Norman Rockwell. Learn a new technique of portraiture by identifying shadow shapes with a master copy of Sargent. Lastly diving into cast drawing and drawing a portrait from an old photo, maybe even of a grand parent.
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Projects in this course
- Inside Out Portrait: A Four part Drawing series in which you draw a portrait using Geometric Essence, the Skull, then layering the muscles and lastly the natural portrait of a man's face.
- Caricature: Learn how to distill a persons face and the history of caricature.
- Caricature as a pirate or animal
- A Charles Dickens Christmas Card: Design a Christmas Card in the style of Norman Rockwell
- Sargent Master Copy - learn a new technique of identifying shadow shape to draw portraits
- Cast Drawing: Combine all the skills learned this semester to draw from a cast
- Classical Portrait Drawing: Draw a portrait of one of your ancestors using an old photo.
Kevin McEvoy
Fine Art Painter
About
Kevin’s paintings draw on the classical methods he acquired in Florence, and are applied in a contemporary context to the world around him. Interested in the sublime that is to be found in the mundane, his paintings speak to us in common terms, the poetry of everyday life.