Your Portrait

The invention of photography in the 19th Century changed painting forever. No longer needing to simply record reality, artists simply began exploring expression, emotion and interpretation, especially in portraiture.

Outlines on an image - Pinterest

Portrait painting remains one of the most demanding art forms, combining technical skill with the challenge of capturing character, mood, and human connection beyond mere likeness.

Norman Rockwell Triple self-portrait 1960, Gandalf Gallery, source, Wikiart.com

For ‘Your Portrait’ week;

🎨 I’m excited to announce that we have a guided instruction session to help you learn how to draw your own portrait. This will feature a special guest, Barbara Hulme, one of our All4inclusion members, who has kindly agreed to run this. For those who don’t know, Barbara is an awesome, world-renowned portrait artist.

You will need

1. Front-facing, colour photograph of yourself (or your agreed model)

2. Pencil

3. Rubber

4. Ruler

5. Saucer or equivalent-sized round object to draw around (4”/10cm).

Please get this ready in advance.

🎨If you would prefer to focus on making a portrait portfolio storyboard, then select photos of yourself and arrange your profile pics.

🎨 Or if you would like to join and relax with some colouring, feel free to join us. Remember, this is our first time hosting an art learning session, so it may be a little different to other weeks.

It will be a great evening of creativity!

See you all soon 🙂 Wednesday evening, 7:30 pm UK time. Please join us on link-tree select All4Art https://linktr.ee/all4inclusion