3 Weird but Working Tricks for Portraits
Here’s the replay of yesterday’s free webinar “3 Weird but Working Tricks for Portraits”. There was a slight delay with some pictures, but I have edited the recording so that it won’t show there. I hope you will enjoy these ideas and mindsets!
Drawing Faces – Refresh the Way You Make Portraits!
In my new upcoming class Innovative Portraits, we will discover new paths to painting and drawing portraits. We will gather ideas, make sketches to process them and find solutions to the problems that have caused frustrations. This class also includes a 3-month membership in my art community Bloom and Fly so you will also get monthly live sessions and weekly feedback Tuesdays.
Innovative Portraits – Reserve Your Spot Now!
The early-bird price is available when you sign up before Sept 16, midnight PDT.
>> Sign up NOW!
Technique, Style or Identity? Which comes first to you?
I re-wrote an old blog post because this is the subject that’s close to my heart!
Technique
During the past ten years, I have wanted to learn and experiment with art techniques. It has been fun to combine all kinds of supplies and see what comes out. It has often felt that after I have learned the technique, I can then do whatever I want with it. But many times, adding a new technique to my repertoire has just grown more doubts about my style.
Style
Style means something that you are comfortable with doing, and that makes your work recognizable. When I have been unsuccessful in finding my visual style, I have had too much focus on the result and too little on the play. Techniques may change, but discovering the how you can process inspiration and what inspires you, and then connecting all that with shapes and colors and compositions, produces style.
Identity
Even when working full-time as an artist, I sometimes still have problems in calling myself an artist. I wonder, why there’s so much talk about finding your style and so little about finding your identity as an artist? It includes me too. I often talk and think about style issues when I should think about identity issues. It’s easier to analyze the line, the theme, the mark making, than talk about things that go deeper.
Things like:
1) Why do you make art?
2) How do you define the quality of your art?
3) What’s your role in the art community?
4) What’s different with you from the artists that you admire?
5) When and how do you know that you have succeeded as an artist?
Most of these questions are valid whether you are a beginner or more advanced. The answers change when your journey progresses.
When your order is 1) identity, 2) style, 3) technique
your art becomes more expressive because you allow more play,
you take on new challenges because your art has a purpose,
and you connect more with people because you have a natural urge to share.
The Exploring Artist – Few Spots Left!
In The Exploring Artist, you will grow your artistic identity in a small and tight-knit group. I will personally help you to put your passion into words and visual insights. We will work together to discover what you want to change in your art, where you want to move forward and how to do it. The registration closes on Sunday, Sept 9 (midnight PDT).
>> Sign up now!
Free Webinar – 3 Weird But Working Tricks for Portraits
My free webinar is especially for you who
… is bored by always starting a portrait in the same way
… wants to deliver an emotion but end up struggling with stiffness
… aims for bright colors and quirky facial features without being too naive
In the webinar, I will show you three different ways to make a portrait. These are weird portraits and weird tricks but they work, and I am pretty sure you will want to play with them long after our gathering! And if you are interested in my upcoming class Innovative Portraits, this is a chance to explore the subject before the class begins.
3 Weird But Working Tricks for Portraits – Join Us!
The live webinar will be on Sept 13, 2018, 6 PM London / 1 PM New York. The duration will be approximately 40 minutes, and the recording will be available afterward.
The webinar is over but you can watch the recording here!
New Portrait Class: Innovative Portraits!
Most of the art classes are about creating portraits. People want to paint and draw people because we can all read facial features. In a way, drawing a face is the easiest way to deliver a message, a personality, an impression. But that can also be tricky. Small changes make a big difference. My husband took over ten photos of me holding the sketchbook. I smiled in all of them, but only one showed what I wanted you to see: the enthusiasm that I have for art and for the classes that I will run this fall.
Why Is This My First Portrait Class?
Before now, I haven’t had a class that focuses on facial portraits. During the years, I have learned that being able to produce something, is not enough to teach the class. Classes have to have new ideas and solutions, and I want to be enthusiastic when running them. If I am excited both spiritually and practically, there’s a good chance that I can convert you to be so too. Because in the end, art is not about getting the composition perfect or shadowing to the right direction. It’s about the joy and passion that we can experience and deliver through it. That’s why I don’t want to build purely left brain or 100 % right brain classes. The left brain classes focus only on the technical aspects, and the right brain classes try to convince you that anything is brilliant even if you don’t feel so.
It has taken several years from me to figure out the balance between the left and the right brain in teaching portraits.
Because how many times have you wondered:
– Is this the only way to draw the eyes?
– Is the pretty face the only goal?
– What to put in the background?
– How to intensify this piece – truly put my heart into it?
In my new upcoming class Innovative Portraits, we will discover new paths to painting and drawing portraits. We will gather ideas, make sketches to process them and find solutions to the problems that have caused frustrations. This class also includes a 3-month membership in my art community Bloom and Fly so you will also get monthly live sessions and weekly feedback Tuesdays.
Innovative Portraits – Reserve Your Spot Now!
Refresh the way you create faces! The early-bird price is available when you sign up before Sept 16, midnight PDT. >> Watch the dramatic video and sign up NOW!
Sign Up for The Exploring Artist! – Few Spots Left!
Become a part of a special small group diving deeper into the purpose of being an artist. If you wonder where you should be heading as an artist, what media you should use, what themes to choose, and how to reach for people, this coaching is for you.
The Exploring Artist is a 12-week group coaching program between Sept 10 – Nov 30, 2018. Get clear about your artistic passion and become more open about your art, for example, share your art in social media, blog about art, sell your originals and prints, teach classes, etc.
In The Exploring Artist, you will get coaching as a part of a small and tight-knit group. I will personally help you to put your passion into words and visual insights. We will work together to discover what you want to change in your art, where you want to move forward and how to do it. >> Sign up now!