Portrait Pastel, Master Study and the Color of Skin

Portrait Skin Color, Pastel and

the Master Study

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

the Color of Skin

Skin color depends on light

Skin color depends on genes

Skin color depends on a great variety of browns and pinks

Skin color also depends on the color green to contrast and add ‘life’ to the pinks

Skin is greasy, so skin also reflects the colors around it

Can you see the green in the skin?

Can you see the green?

Peter Paul Rubens

Skin color also depends on the imagination

Andre Derain self-portrait

Alexei von Jawlensky

Pastel

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun 1755-1842

Maurice Quentin de la Tour 1704-1788 Portrait of Marie Fel

Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Edgar Degas

Mike Dewey

Kate Eisenberg

R. B. Kitaj

The Master Study

Each artist in a ‘dialog’ with the past.

MichelangeloInspired by Michelangelo (Angela Pryor )

After Leonardo’s Last Supper

Manet Monet Van Gogh

Learning color from the mastersColor depends on ‘style’

What is ‘style’ ?

Hiroshige

Manet

Rembrandt

This idea is to do a master study.

Then do a self-portrait in that style.

(Student study of Maurice Quentin de Latour)

(Student study of Johannes Vermeer)

(Student study of David Park)

(Student study of Kathe Kollwitz)

(Student study of Orozco)

(Student study of Lucian Freud)

Study of Max Beckmann Aaron Dowell

Study of Delacroix Kat Mergens

Study of Van GoghBecke Aller

study of Picasso

study of Gauguin

Study of Kazimir Malevich (Jessica Orme)

Study of ModiglianiKris Han

Study of Egon Schiele Catherine Kreil

study of Lucian Freud Renee Kelly

study of Jenny Saville Thuy Kang

Study of Jenny Saville

Mixed Media with Pastel

Egon Schiele

Jim Dine

Gene Faktorovich

Eve Lyon

Oil pastel Barbara Silverman

Ink with pastel with paint Rob Marosi

Eric Jordan