Learning to See
 

Most of us are having a great deal of fun with our portrait art, but we mustn

Here is another Bargue drawing copy by Ryan Brown. The program forces him to spend hours and hours reworking the drawing until he gets it right. The discipline is doing wonders for his growth.

Charles Bargue (1825-1883) was a wonderfully talented painter. He is largely unknown today and his output wasn

This and the following cast drawings are excellent examples of the levels we should seek to attain. Since I haven

Drawings like this are done standing, are drawn

They are obviously very labor intensive. Labor is something we must get used to. It often takes me about thirty hours to paint a head from life. Drawings like this can take almost as long.

This is a cast painting, done in grisaille. The three dimensional cast is on the left, the painting is on the right. You can tell because of the nail that holds the half head on the wall.

Casts are usually lit by artificial lights, either spots or soft spots. One doesn

This is a drawing shown underway. It was completed and posted on the school