…join us from 10am to noon…

 

Ready, Set, Paint a Portrait!

 

     …a demonstration in pastels with Suzy Hart, Life Member, ASL of NY

 

 

Portraits can be intimidating, but you can set up a good underpainting and make a beautiful study! Suzy will demonstrate from a live model, drawing intuitively to begin, and then checking proportions and angles to ensure strength and energy in the completed work. Head anatomy, poetic rendering, skin tones, half tones, chiaroscuro, illusion and depth; these are the foundation of a strong portrait, and learning to identify the subtle tonalities we see in skin and hair will be part of the discussion.

 

Anatomical and value considerations that affect the youthfulness of a child’s portrait will be shared.

 

 

Although portraits require patience, Suzy believes that there are tools and skills that can help you along this path.

   …about Suzy

“What I like to teach is the art of seeing…there are so many ways to get to a result, and each is as unique as the artist through whose lens we see a work. I like to empower, as my teachers empowered me.”

Suzy Hart has a lifetime fascination with the human face and the emotions it reveals. She has received an Award of Excellence in 2007 from the Portrait Society of America’s International Competition as well as honor awards in the members’ competitions in 2010 and 2014.  She won the Butler Institute of American Art award in the Allied Artists of America Exhibition in 2012. Her work has recently been shown in  the prestigious exhibitions of the International Association of Pastel Societies, the Pastel Society of America and the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in NY.  In November 2015 she will be presenting a paper analyzing the works of Max Ginsburg at TRAC2015, the Representational Art Conference, the foremost symposium of philosophers, artists, and curators  engaging with the issue of aesthetics in the 21st Century.

She was born in England, and has lived in NY, NJ, and MT and SC. She makes her home and studio now in the upstate of South Carolina with her husband David Rasberry. She has one grown son, Matthew, who lives in NY. She is a proud past President of the Appalachian Pastel Society.

(Morning Program is FREE and open to the public.)

 

…and workshop from 1pm to 4pm…

 

PORTRAIT PAINTING with Suzy Hart

 

The afternoon workshop will include the topics covered in the morning program, but attendees should bring a some photos to work from. The best photos will have been taken with a strong primary source of light, preferably not sunlit, that allow for identification of the main planes of the face and features. Regardless, if the expression is lovely and inspires you, please bring it and give it a shot!

Landscape and street scene painters are also welcome. These works often include a figure, or farm animals. We will talk about simplifying the shadow structure that makes a convincing figure with minimal detail, but uses accurate value and placement in the visual space.

 Registration required for workshop: