and 60 minute and 40 minute portrait sketches

Mac

this is terrific practice for me Bethany, and it looks like I’m going to need it, I’ve accepted an offer from a friend at the Royal Art Society to teach portraits there next term on Wednesday’s … and just looked on their Fb page and discovered who I’m replacing

Mac

Joe thank you for your constant positive feedback

not quite what I had in mind David!
I went into the RAS yesterday to have a look as I hadn’t been there before and said my approach would be something like this …

‘This course will be more ‘What they don’t tell you in Art School!’ than a formal academic approach, and the goal of the course will be to enjoy the experience of developing and improving individual skills and confidence in the art of Portraiture.

It will not be limited to one particular method or style but the intent will be to build competence, confidence and originality in being able to portray a likeness in a variety of mediums and methods.

The focus will be on developing confidence to paint ‘alla prima’ with short poses but will also include developing a more finished result over longer poses.’

… ultimately I guess it will depend on them having enough enrolments, I was going to do a workshop for another Art Society once which was cancelled due to a lack of numbers, and from what I gather that seems to be a general trend in recent times… we’ll see what happens!

Mac