Develop your ability to create painterly portraits that highlight the model’s features and personality by learning anatomy, proportion, and color-mixing.
Lessons and demonstrations will be conducted in oil and acrylic. Students will work in a painting medium of their choice and through careful observation of one pose sustained over the course of the class they will learn how to interrupt proportions and views of the head to capture frontal, side or three-quarter views. Study from live models in real time via online video conferencing.
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Nancy Johnson received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and her MFA from Yale University. While attending the University of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for her outstanding undergraduate work, and a Strathmore Paper Award for her excellence in drawing. After receiving her MFA degree, Nancy taught painting and drawing at several institutions including Mount Wachusett Community College, Westfield State College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts, Nancy participated in launchi ...
Nancy Johnson received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and her MFA from Yale University. While attending the University of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for her outstanding undergraduate work, and a Strathmore Paper Award for her excellence in drawing. After receiving her MFA degree, Nancy taught painting and drawing at several institutions including Mount Wachusett Community College, Westfield State College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts, Nancy participated in launching the first Summer Abroad Program in La Napoule, France and Brugge, Belgium where she and her colleagues instructed a group of 35 BFA students in painting and drawing. She has nearly 30 years of experience in art education and has taught adult classes and workshops at 92Y since 2002.
Nancy’s work ranges from paintings of the still life, and portrait to works based in the abstract expressionist tradition. Her work was exhibited as part of the Group Shows 4 Women Painters, at Anderson University, Posers and Rockers Show at the Brooklyn Artist Gym, and Metro 26 Show in Newark NJ, and in solo exhibitions at 510 Warren Street Gallery in Hudson, NY and The Bleecker Street Gallery in Manhattan. Her most recent paintings were shown in solo exhibitions at Wagner Gallery in Staten Island, and at Hampden Gallery in Amherst, MA. Nancy is a painter living and working on Staten Island, NY.
Portrait Painting (Intermediate/Advanced)
Portrait Drawing: Black & White to Color Pencil
Figure Drawing
Portrait Drawing
Figure and Portrait Drawing Combined
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