Someone You Know: Final Portrait Project, Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

“Someone You Know”

final course project:a portrait in any media

Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

Why do hand drawn and painted portraits in the age of photography and mass media? What is the "true portrait" of an individual? Can one image capture everything? What is the place of simple "description" and what of evocative "theater?" What part does the beauty of drawing and color -- by itself -- play in portraiture?

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.

A portrait of someone you care about

We know you care because of the effort that goes into it

Margreta McKeown

Mary MacDonald

Put the person in the ‘best light’

Flatter them with the truth

color, light, pattern and personal objects

Hilevi Lipson

Get to know your subject first, with warm-up sketches to get their likeness

Ideas for your project

Chiaroscuro old master

lighting (in charcoal)

Cynthia Kanios

Michelle Laffon

Cynthia Kanios

Geoff Kington

Allison Ferenstein

Fei Li

portrait at home

Naomi Southard

Lorraine Wilson Peters

Anita Adams

Patty Corwin

Lauryn Gold

Raymond Coshow

Elizabeth McDonald

Nalani Jay

A portrait in a master’s style

Kate Connell

Suzanna Fry

(William Waterhouse)

Kristin Bradley

portrait inspired by fantasy and

theater

Sivan Cohen Fei Li

Zena Ryan

Jia Pu

children

Doreen Delgado

Patricia Languedoc

Christian Rouet

Kate Eisenberg

‘body language’

Betsy Crouch

Daniel Rabier

Elizabeth McDonald

Hadley Northrop

Charlotte Buchen

Bing Zhang

Colleen McCrystal

larger than life

Joseph Hovadik

Joseph Hovadik

Joseph Hovadik

Lina JanusasCarrie Donovan

Tami Avery

Peggy Millar

Peggy Millar