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INSTRUCTOR: Lis Pardoe
www.lispardoe.com DATE: April 12th, 13th, 14th, 2024 TIME: 11am to 2pm (each day) Materials: (see list below) TUITION: $180.00 ONLY $165 if you Sign up before April 1st |
Charcoal Portrait Drawing Workshop
Instructed, In Person Class. with Lis Pardoe www.lispardoe.com Do you want to achieve a closer likeness in your portrait drawings or need help bringing them fully to life? This workshop will address just that: creating a portrait from start to finish. Working with charcoal and a live model, you will learn to rework your shapes, compare your values, and build general to specific. Working on one drawing for the duration of the workshop will guide you through three steps in three days: • Day 1: the initial drawing (shapes and comparison) • Day 2: simplified values (value comparison, charcoal layering & blending) • Day 3: full value and detail (form, hatching, detail, edges) With over ten years of life drawing experience, Lis is adept in teaching beginning to advanced drawing students, helping them develop and build upon their skill set. While the workshop will follow a general step-by-step method, Lis's teaching style is flexible and relaxed, meeting you where you are. She will demonstrate the new concepts each day and draw with the students as time allows. At any point, students can observe her process, ask questions, and receive critique throughout the session. The drawing style encouraged is slower-paced and methodical, while also trusting your gut and observations without heavily relying on anatomical terminology and literal measurement. While the focus will be the portrait, the observational drawing skills you'll learn are versatile and can be applied to any subject. By the end of the three days, you'll understand the steps necessary to create a lifelike portrait. Materials ● Suggested paper: If you have a favorite for charcoal, bring it! You want something that’s not too thin so it won’t wear through when layering. I like Strathmore 300 2-Ply Vellum Bristol paper but something with a more texture is fine. ● Winsor Newton Vine Charcoal - Extra Soft ● Generals compressed charcoal pencils - hard, med, and ex soft. The orange ones! ● Blending stumps - I like #2's & #6's ● Kneaded eraser ● Mono zero 2.0 fine hard point eraser or a fine point eraser Price for the workshop is $180.00 Sign up before April 1st and get a discount! Students are encouraged to tip the model. And to bring their own lunch. |