The Basics of Portraiture

The Basics of Portraiture

Students 9/12

Laura Scherling
Jeff Caldwell
Kurt Lu
Anabella Dichoso
Tushar Saxena
Hana B
Melissa Fernandez
Marqueritha Clarke
Carrie MacDougall

About this Class

This class will explore the basic principles of drawing people and portraits. This workshop is great for artists of all skill levels and ages. Come if you love drawing people or if you are interested in learning how! All materials will be provided, and much of the class time will be spent drawing. You will come away with a good foundation for portraiture, and drawing in general. The class will culminate with a Q & A with the teaching artist about his drawing, painting, and illustration practice.

Our location sponsor is The Wix Lounge. http://www.wixlounge.com/

Please visit us at greenspacenyc.org to learn more about our organization and our pop-up class initiative.

Greenspace’s Credentials

Seth Mulvey is an artist living and working in Brooklyn painting portraits and symbolic objects. His work is built on a traditional approach to drawing, light, color, and composition. His early formal art education began in San Francisco in the bay area figurative tradition with Mark Johnson and Robert Bechtle. He continued his art study with Roberts Howard in Massachusetts, which marked his first trips to the east coast, where his family is from. This brought him to further study in New York under Thomas Woodruff and Joo Chung at the School of Visual Arts. Seth currently works as an illustrator and storyboard artist in New York along with keeping a painting practice in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He is a member of the Gutbox Collective, which is represented by Lamberts Fine Arts on the Lower East Side.

Check out his work: sethmulvey.com
Click here for a blog post about Seth's upcoming classes!

Student Endorsements

“The portraiture class was fun! It was hard work and I loved that the emphasis was on practice, not theory or passive instruction”

Tushar Saxena

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