“Someone You Know”

final course project:a portrait in any media

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

The assignment:

A portrait of someone you know (living or deceased)

Portrait must be personal – convey something about the person being

portrayed.

Any size, any media, from a photo or from life.

first, let’s think about answers to these questions:

Why do a drawing or paintingin an age of photography and digital reproduction?

(because it’s handmade and personal)

We know it’s personal because the portrait says the artist cares.

We know the artist cares because of the effort that goes into details

Margreta McKeown

Michelle Laffon

Merinal Brunda

What is the "true portrait" of an individual? Can one image capture everything?

John Reamer

Hilevi Lipson

Draw firstGet to know your subject in a variety of poses and with a variety of your ideas

What is the place of simple "description" and what of evocative "theater?"

Colleen McCrystal

What part does the beauty of drawing and color – all by itself -- play in portraiture?

Mary MacDonald

If it’s someone you know in frail health, then put the person in the ‘best light.’

Flatter them with the truth: color, light, pattern and personal details.

Use class assignment ideas you’ve learned as possibilities

for your project

Cynthia Kanios

Chiaroscuro old master lighting

Fei Li

Cynthia Kanios

Geoff Kington

Allison Ferenstein

Elizabeth McDonald

Naomi Southard

portrait at home

Anita Adams

Lorraine Wilson Peters

Charlotte Buchen

Nalani Jay

Patty Corwin

Raymond Coshow

Lauryn Gold

Suzanna Fry

after William Waterhouse

A portrait in a master’s style

Kristin Bradley after Vincent

Jia Pu

portrait inspired

by fantasy

and theater

Sivan Cohen

Fei Li

Zena Ryan

Doreen Delgado

portraits of children

Patricia Languedoc

Christian Rouet

Kate Eisenberg

Tami Avery

Betsy Crouch

remember that gesture and ‘body language’ is a powerful tool

Daniel Rabier

Elizabeth McDonald

Hadley Northrop

Bing Zhang

Peggy Millar

What if the portrait is larger

than life?

Joseph Hovadik

Lina JanusasCarrie Donovan

these are done on a roll of white paper

Catherine Kriel

the last assignment

Show your ambition

Show that you’ve learned something

Show that you care

Joseph Hovadik