Portrait Workshop This Weekend

I've been the gypsy itinerant artist in my travels from Idaho. It's been wonderful to connect with family and friends, collectors and fellow artists.

I was also able to see the Sorolla show in Dallas on this trip. His paintings were instructive and inspiring. In addition to a number of his large paintings, some of his charcoal sketches and miniature studies were shown. I especially enjoyed the sketches, some of which were little more than gesture studies for planning the figures in a larger seaside painting composition with children running in the surf.

Additionally, I've been fortunate to find some Open Studio sessions to work from live models so I can stay in practice and enjoy the camaraderie of other artists. One of the places I've been hanging out is Geatches Art Studio in Oklahoma City. I wish I'd known about it 50 years ago. This was where Sherrie McGraw studied before she ventured to Art Students League in New York.

I've been asked to teach a portrait workshop this coming weekend before I head back to the great white north. I'll be doing demos from live models and teaching how to capture a likeness in charcoal and then in oil. You can find more information about the class at this link.