For the month of November I participated in classes with East coast artist Chris Kolupski ( see www.chriskolupski.com) . His pre-recorded video classes are separate projects sent out weekly throughout the month. At the end of each week there is a Zoom meet up where Chris reviews and critiques the pictures of our paintings we email to him. Classes are… Read more →
Category: Art Classes
Bargue class Finals September 2022
So they are about done with me… My last Bargue Plate is Homer and then my last assignment is doing a Black & White portrait photo. Here’s my completed Homer, mine on the right. Final project is not a Bargue plate but a photo of my choice. My final drawing is of my husband 🙂 So class completed 10/10/22 Wow… Read more →
Bargue Drawings July 2022
I am so excited to get my first full head Bargue drawing… it’s nice to be finally working on what I had made a goal to be working on. My goal with taking this class is to get more comfortable with including human forms in my paintings and I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel.… Read more →
Bargue Drawings June 2022
June has another profile but with much more texture. Middle of June I got my new assignment and found that that plate had two views of the same “mask” . So, this is the one not assigned and I’m now finishing the one assigned. The reason I wanted to do both is because I wanted to do both angles, they… Read more →
Bargue Class April 2022
Finally the reason I’m taking this class… I’m drawing a face! This plate is of Nero as a child. So April starts faces. 2nd assignment for April. This one had more shading to model the fave further. May’s assignment , I needed a month on this one I had too much going on. My new assignment will take a month… Read more →
Bargue Class 2022
My classes continue…. February…. This was my second February assignment , I called it “The Strong Arm” I had a hard time with the shading with this one and I have the same issue with my next assignment too. This assignment took me most of March…. it’s the shading I was struggling with. I also had set this up to… Read more →
Bargue Classes 2021 Continued
Nov 15,2021 class – another foot and more extensive shading. My drawing is on the right. Nov 29th assignment. Not totally happy with this one, I only had 1 week instead of 2. I also am working on doing more “sight” sizing instead of relying on measuring. Dec 6th assignment, didn’t complete in 2 weeks. Finally finished Dec 24th. This… Read more →
Bargue Drawing class- started 9/27/21 –
Class intro & Assignment 1st assignment…. 9/27/21 did set up. … my drawing in middle. 4 sets finished Just for fun, this drawing was on cover of Bargue Book. Steve titled it “ Does this make my butt look big?”. after doing more classes I will be trying this again to look for improvement 👍🏻. Oct 4 th class assignment… Read more →