SUMMER PROGRAMS AT NISDA

Classes + Workshops // Youth Art Program

BIG SELF-PORTRAITS

4 day workshop
Teen 13+ // Adult


Instructor: 
Ian Torney

Days // Times: 
July 15-18
Tuesday - Friday // 9:30 am–12 noon


Tuition: 
$ 250


Students will create a dramatic, finished and larger-than-life self-portrait on @ 40” x 60” parchment paper or a large piece of cardboard, building a portrait image in a step-by-step process from a photograph, from a line drawing in graphite, to a limited palette in acrylic using Burnt Umber and white paint in washes of value, and utilizing both Classical and contemporary methodology and practice.

  • workshop description

    Participants will consider related art history and aesthetics, from the Classical painter Caravaggio to contemporary artist Shepard Fairey, as well as both traditional and modernist techniques of image-making.

    This course is open to both Teens and Adults, and is open to both the novice or experienced artist.  This course meets for two-and-a-half hours a day for four mornings across one week, 9:30 am to 12 noon on Tuesday through Friday.


    Students should bring the following materials 

    available at https://www.nantucketcreate.com/ 


    • a graphite drawing pencil (e.g. an Ebony Pencil or Flat Sketching Pencil);
    • an eraser (e.g. a white Prismacolor “Magic Rub Eraser” or similar);
    • a 24-sheet pad of 9” by 12” plain white drawing paper (e.g. Strathmore Series 400 Off-White Drawing Paper or similar);
    • an iPhone or Smartphone with a camera and website capabilities.  

    Students will have the option to continue working independently in the studio outside of class.


    Students should also bring a water-bottle or similar beverage and a mid-morning snack.  

    All other materials will be supplied by the instructor.

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