Level: all
Wednesday
Jul 6
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Instructor: John Grieco
Fee: Free, but registration required
Join John Grieco for a free online class where he’ll share his approach to creating a portrait. His unique technique of combining mass and line gets students drawing lifelike portraits in no time. He stresses expressive strokes with an emphasis on understanding the importance of the fundamentals of drawing. This class is geared toward drawing and working with a photograph to create a realistic portrait rendering.
Note: above image created by Tracey Dinkin, one of John’s students
Note: this class will be taught online using Zoom. Please download and become familiar with the app prior to the start of class. A zoom invite and a photo and an image will be emailed to you a day before class begins.
Suggested Supply List:
- Medium vine charcoal
- White conte drawing pencil
- General charcoal pencil (HB or 2b)
- Kneaded eraser
- Sharpening blade
- Blending stump (used for smoothing and blending)
- Paper towels
- Drawing board (at least 18×24)
- Fixative spray for charcoal
- A piece of Stonehenge Hot Press paper (18X24″) or a 11″X14″ tablet of it (if you have a tablet of other good paper you can bring that to work on.
John Grieco is a portrait painter located in White Plains, NY. Grieco is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. He won “Best in Show” at a 2010 Exhibition at the Salmagundi Art Club in New York City and received the Randolph Chitwood Award in the 2010 Greenwich Art Society Members Exhibition. John’s been teaching at RAC for over 10 years and has a loyal following.